Some
Explorations
in
the Sociology
of Alcohol
Ron
Roizen
Wallace, Idaho
Book:
The Rossi Murder and the unwritten law in 1916's
Wallace Idaho (2021), available at Amazon.
In 1916, Herman J.
Rossi, one of Wallace, Idaho's
leading citizens, shot and killed
his young wife's lover, Clarence
"Gabe" Dahlquist. Three months
later, a jury readily acquitted
Rossi after a week-long trial.
The unwritten law was widely
credited for the jury's
verdict. This book explores
both Rossi's trial and the
historical sociology of the
unwritten law. Rossi's wife's
alcoholism and the temperance
movement's remarkable cultural hold
in Idaho at this time played key
roles in this drama.
Posts at the POINTS
Blog and my personal
blog:
- Probably
not
secrecy, based on the minutes of a 1942
meeting, at Points, posted 12/8/16
- Probably
not
secrecy, based on the minutes of a 1942
meeting, at my personal blog, posted
12/3/16
- Marijuana's
and
alcohol's differing paths toward domestication,
posted 11/28/16
- Collier's
1943 Snapshot of the First Yale Summer School of
Alcohol Studies, posted 6/5/13
- On
E.M.
Jellinek's Trail, posted 4/25/13
- The
Temperance
Question in Idaho's Constitution, posted
2/25/13
- Reflecting
on
Idaho U.S. Senator Mike Crapo's Unfortunate and
Humbling DUI, posted 12/28/12
- Catching
Up
With Bruce Holley Johnson, Ph.D., posted
7/5/12
- A
Footnote to Pauly (1994): Yandell Henderson's
Lusitania Letters, posted 5/17/12
- Reflections
on
the NIAAA/NIDA Merger, Part 2, posted
4/13/12
- Reflections
on
the Scheduled NIAAA/NIDA Merger, Part 1,
posted 4/12/12
- Addiction,
History
and Historians: Ron Roizen's Response to David
Courtwright's Reply, posted
3/22/12
- "So
Logical
to Us": Donna Krulitz Smith's Account of the
Complex and Compelling Story of the Prohibition
Experience in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District
of Northern Idaho, posted 2/24/12
- Mrs.
Marty
Mann and the Medicalization of Alcoholism,
posted 12/16/11
- Big
Questions,
Free Will, and Addiction, posted 12/1/11
- Dry
Pushback
Against Mann's Alcoholism Movement and Robert
King Merton's Manifest and Latent Functions: A
Perplexing Combination, posted 11/17/11
- Washington
State's
Prop. 1183 Passes Easily, posted 11/9/11
- Stigma
on
Alcoholism: A Modest Proposal, posted
11/8/11
- Washington
State's
Prop. 1183: The Iowa Dustup and Trends
Thereafter, posted 10/24/11
- Washington
State's
Proposition 1183: Consumer Convenience or
Culture and History?, posted 10/6/11
- Thoreau's
Lament
on Cider's Fall, posted 8/16/11
- E.M.
Jellinek's
Departure from Budapest in 1920, Part 2,
posted 8/5/11
- E.M.
Jellinek's
Essay on Drinking's Symbolism: Another Look,
posted 7/22/11
- The
Hanging
of Jack Slade, A Rowdy Drunk, posted 7/9/11
- Keller's
Reticence:
A Note on the Perils of Insider Historiography,
posted 6/28/11
- Glimpses
of
Blythewood, posted 6/21/11
- Who
Bought
Whom? Revisiting "Bowman's Compromise,"
posted 6/9/11
- E.M.
Jellinek
at Worcester: A Bare Beginning, posted
6/5/11
- Glatt
and
Popper in Helsinki: A Personal Anecdote,
posted 5/31/11
- What
Time
Do You Want It To Be? Finessing Science, Part
Two. posted 5/28/11
- What
Time
Do You Want It To Be? Finessing Science at the
National Council on Alcoholism and at Yale,
posted 5/26/11
- Cherry-Picking
the
History of the Alcoholism Movement, posted
5/20/11
Historical Change in
Problem Definition, Problem Ownership,
and Scientific Paradigms:
- The
American Discovery of Alcoholism, 1933-1939
(1991)
- Spanish translation of Chapter
1, by Laura Mancini, here
- Bulgarian translation of Chapter
1, by Zlatan Dimitrov, here
- Bulgarian translation of Chapter
2, by Zlatan Dimitrov, here
- Azerbaijanian translation of
Chapter 1, by Amir Abbosov, here
- Azerbaijanian translation of
Chapter 2, by Amir Abbosov, here
- Urdu translation of Chapter 1,
by Samuel Badree, here
- Catalan translation of Chapter
1, by Chema Bescos, here
.
Epidemiology &
Cross Cultural Studies:
- Robin Room and Ron Roizen, "Some notes on the
study of drinking contexts," Drinking and Drug
Practices Surveyor, 8:25-33, (Aug.) 1973 (pdf
download).
- Cirrhosis
mortality
and per capita consumption of distilled spirits,
U.S., 1949-1994 (1999)
- Cultural
control of drinking by universal moderation or
differential access (1988)
- in Estonian, here,
translated by Adrian Pantilimonu
- in French, here,
translated by Mathilde Guibert
.
History of Scientific
Ideas:
- Some notes on the new paradigmatic
environment of "natural remission" studies in
alcohol research (2001) -- pdf
download
- The coming crisis in alcohol
social science (2000) -- pdf
download
- Stalking
the origins of historical U.S. per capita
alcohol consumption statistics (1993)
- The
strange case of the Jellinek Formula's sex ratio
(1980)
- Ascription
of problems to drinking (1975)
- in Dutch, here
- in German, here
- in Polish, here
- in Hungarian, here
- in Indonesian, here
- in Estonian, here
- in Russian, here
- in
Portuguese, here
- in Ukrainian, here
- in Spanish, here
- in Georgian, here
- in Thai, here
.
Tributes:
Footnotes in the History of Alcohol Science:
.
Controlled-Drinking as
Case Study in Scientific Controversy:
.
Forensic Alcohol
Sociology
.
Book Reviews,
Commentaries, & Letters:
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