This study is an interpretive investigation into the stories undergraduate women tell about
their drinking with a focus on understanding the pull of drinking to get drunk. Semi-structured …

Over the last 30 years, college women's drinking has steadily increased from 6% to 49%.
While colleges across the country have attempted to deal with alcohol-related issues by …

Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students
frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The …

Drinking stories feature widely in Western societies. Many people eagerly share their stories
in the aftermath of drinking events. These stories are also common in books, movies, music …

Ten years ago in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (1: 1±4), the (then)
Editors spelled out a radical mission for the Journal. As part of this, they announced their …

This article argues that ordinary and mundane everyday life myths are the products of co-
constructed meanings. It examines how images that students garner from the media may …

Two studies assessed perceived types of college students and associated stereotypes about
drinking. In the first study, 64 university students responded to an open‐ended probe asking …

Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, George H. Jensen's Storytelling in
Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze …

SUCH headlines as" Students in Car Smashup after College Drinking Party" and" Drunken
Fraternity Party Brings Police" are altogether too familiar. They merely confirm the belief of …

The concept of addiction is historically and culturally specific, becoming a common way of
understanding experience first in early nineteenth-century America. This paper considers …