@article{ref1,
title="Finding the meanings of college drinking: An analysis of fraternity drinking stories",
journal="Health communication",
year="2001",
author="Workman, T. A.",
volume="13",
number="4",
pages="427-447",
abstract="College drinking has traditionally been studied from a public health perspective that attempts to quantify behavior as a means toward description, explanation, and intervention. This article offers a critical and cultural approach to understanding the meanings and functions of high-risk drinking and the ways in which those meanings are reproduced within the culture. Data were collected via an ethnographic study of fraternity members at a large midwestern university to explore the communication of excessive drinking norms. Viewed from various narrative and structural theories, the study examines collected drinking stories as a source for analyzing the construction of meanings surrounding drunkenness for the fraternity subculture. Five themes emerged as functions of drunkenness for the culture. Implications for prevention are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1041-0236",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}