Getting Wasted - Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Vander Ven is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University and author of Working Mothers and Juvenile Delinquency. Klappentext Vander Ven argues that college students rely on "drunk support." Contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social one where students support one another through nights of drinking games, rituals and rites of passage. Zusammenfassung A sociological exploration of factors contributing to student drink culture in the US

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Vander Ven, Thomas Vander Ven
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2011
• EAN: 9780814788325
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-8832-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)