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Re-framing 'binge drinking' as calculated hedonism: Empirical evidence from the UK
Isabelle Szmigin,Christine Griffin,Willm Mistral,Andrew Bengry-Howell,Louise Weale,Chris Hackley +5 more
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The paper concludes that the term 'calculated hedonism' better describes the behaviour of the young people in this study and in particular the way they manage their pleasure around alcohol, than the emotive term 'binge drinking'.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Drug Policy.The article was published on 2008-10-01. It has received 312 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Binge drinking & Poison control.read more
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'Every time I do it I absolutely annihilate myself': loss of (self-)consciousness and loss of memory in young people's drinking narratives
TL;DR: This paper explored the significance of loss of consciousness and loss of memory in young adult drinkers' drinking stories and explored the role of ''passing out stories' in the classed and gendered domain of young people's alcohol consumption in the neo-liberal social order, focusing on the constitution of risk and pleasure in their accounts.
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Alcohol Consumption, Gender Identities and Women’s Changing Social Positions
Antonia C. Lyons,Sara Willott +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored how women define their gender identities in relation to men through consumption of alcohol and found that women viewed binge drinking as a routine, normal part of everyday life, while other drunk women were viewed as deviant and breaking traditional codes of femininity.
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Behaviour and burnout in medical students
TL;DR: Health behaviours, particularly physical activity, predict components of burnout in medical students, and gender, year of study, gender, and physical activity also appear to influence the prevalence of burnouts.
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'That's OK. He's a guy': a mixed-methods study of gender double-standards for alcohol use
TL;DR: Although there were few sex differences in actual levels of drinking or drunkenness, gender double-standards for alcohol use persist: beer drinking, binge drinking and public drunkenness tended to be perceived as masculine, and even the most egalitarian respondents were more judgemental of women's drinking.
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Inhabiting the contradictions: Hypersexual femininity and the culture of intoxication among young women in the UK
TL;DR: The authors explored young women's alcohol consumption and their involvement in normative drinking cultures and found that the juxtaposition of hyper-sexual femininity and the culture of intoxication produces a particularly difficult set of dilemmas for young women.
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics
TL;DR: Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics as mentioned in this paperolk devils and moral panics is an outstanding investigation of the way the media and often those in a position of political power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values and interests.
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Interpreting consumers: A hermeneutical framework for deriving marketing insights from the texts
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Interpreting Consumers: A Hermeneutical Framework for Deriving Marketing Insights from the Texts of Consumers’ Consumption Stories:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and illustrate a hermeneutically grounded interpretive framework for deriving marketing-relevant insights from the "texts" of consumer stories.
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The body in consumer culture
TL;DR: Turner as discussed by the authors draws together diet, slimming, exercise, and jogging under the rubric of demography and concludes that these activities have already had their meaning pro-defined within the context of a consumer culture.
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The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory
TL;DR: The body in consumer culture has been studied in a wide range of contexts, e.g., the Body in Consumer Culture, Aikido Bio-politics and social policy as mentioned in this paper.
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