Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism - Softcover

Rudy, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080931245X ISBN 13: 9780809312450

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

Affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous parallels religious conversion, according to David R. Rudy in this timely study of the most famous self-help organization in the world.

 

Drinkers who commit themselves to Alcoholics Anonymous embrace the radically different life-style, the altered world of the convert.

 

To understand this conversion and, more important, to get a grip on the even deeper mystery of alcoholism itself, Rudy sought to answer these three questions: What processes are involved in becoming alcoholic? How does the alcoholic affiliate with, and become committed to, A. A.’s belief system? What is the relation­ship between the world of A. A. members and that constructed by alcohologists?

 

Rudy establishes the history and structure of A. A. and examines the organization’s relationship to dominant sociological models, theories, and definitions of alcoholism.

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David R. Rudy is Professor of Soci­ology at Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080931245X
• ISBN 13: 9780809312450
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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