Some Explorations in the
Sociology of Alcohol

Ron Roizen
Wallace, Idaho

 

Historical Change in Problem Definition, Problem Ownership,
and Scientific Paradigms:
 

• Shifts in the U.S. definition of alcohol problems since Repeal (2004)
• Brief look back at origins of U.S. post-Repeal alcohol science (1998) -- path to JSAD pdf download
• The American Discovery of Alcoholism, 1933-1939 (1991)
• Paradigm sidetracked, 1940-1944 (1993)
• Four unsung moments in the genesis of the modern alcoholism movement in the United States (1996)
  
• Finding symbolic middle ground between alcohol and illicit drugs (1994)
• Re-emergence of college drinking as a U.S. alcohol problems focus in the 1990s (1998)
• Dogpounds, deviance, & drunks (1973)
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Epidemiology & Cross Cultural Studies:
 
• 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)
• Barriers to alcoholism treatment (1977)
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History of Scientific Ideas:
 
• Overlooking Terris (1999)
• Wartime Paris, cirrhosis mortality, and the ceteris paribus assumption (2002)
• Some notes on the new paradigmatic environment of "natural remission" studies in alcohol research (2001)
• The coming crisis in alcohol social science (2000) -- pdf downloae, go to p. 91
• 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)
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Footnotes in the History of Alcohol Science:
 
• Why did Tiebout omit mention of Mann's homosexuality? (2007)
• Dr. Wyckoff's Untimely Death (2007)
• A note on Marty Mann's interesting habit of leaving Dr. Foster Kennedy's name unspoken
• E.M. Jellinek and All That! (2000)
• Jellinek's Phantom Doctorate (1997)
• Where Did Mrs. Marty Mann Learn Alcoholism Was A Disease (1997)
• Marty Mann:  An experiment that failed
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Controlled-Drinking as Case Study in Scientific Controversy:

• The Great Controlled-Drinking Controversy (1987)
• Rand Report Commentary (1977)
• Comment on 1997 U.S. News & World Report Cover Story (1997)
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Forensic Alcohol Sociology
 
• Case #1
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Book Reviews, Commentaries, & Letters:
 
• The new manichaeism in alcohol science (2000)
• Defining social problems in the shadow of the national research establishment (1998)
• False Fixes (1997)
• Navajo Drinking Careers (1996)
• Women alcoholics at Bellevue, 1918-1919 (1996)
• Forward Together (1993)
• Mr. Sam (1991)
• African Alcohol Problems (1989)