Whilst it's red wine with beef, it's booze with a cruise! Genres and gendered regulation of drinking
situations in diaries
Engelsk titel: Whilst it's red wine with beef, it's booze with a cruise! Genres and gendered regulation of drinking
situations in diaries
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Författare:
Törrönen J
;
Maunu A
Email: jukka.torronen@sorad.su.se
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 42
Dokumenttyp:
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UI-nummer: 07073835
Sammanfattning
Aim
The article explores typical drinking
situations, practices involved in these
situations and the situational control of
drinking.
Data and method
The data consist of 60 diaries (39
women, 21 men) written by young
adults aged 23-35. The writers provide
descriptions of all their visits to pubs
and restaurants and drinking occasions
over a period of at least two months.
The writers are all IT and service
professionals, representing a generation
whose descriptions provide an insight
into what kinds of drinking situations
are receding in Finland; what kinds
of situations continue to have cultural
relevance; and what kinds of new
drinking situations are emerging.
Drinking situations are identified
and distinguished from one another by
reference to three factors: the motives of
drinking, the processes of drinking and
the drinkers’ subjective commitment to
those processes. In addition, drinking
situation are analysed from the points of
view of gender and (self-)control.
Results
Five main types of drinking situations
are extracted from the analysis of
the diary accounts: hanging out,
meal drinking, partying, carnival and
individual activity. Hanging out and meal drinking are described
in the diary accounts
as drinking situations
where gender differences
carry little significance.
These drinking situations
encourage the use of
alcohol, but not drinking
to inebriation. By contrast,
the three other types are
intoxication-oriented and
in them gender differences
emerge. Partying, for its
part, encourages controlled
inebriation. Carnival is
a drinking situation that
encourages heavy drinking,
even beyond consciousness.
Also individual activity may
encourage heavy drinking.
However, in this situation
people rarely drink to the
same extent as in carnival
or party situation since they
do not have the security net
provided by company.
Conclusions
The heavier drinking the
situation encourages,
the more gendered the
experience appears. Women
who felt that they had lost
control over their bodily
activities expressed more
shame than men, especially
in descriptions of several
days' carnival drinking.