Youth Drinking Cultures

Margaretha Järvinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen and The Danish National Institute of Social Research (SFI). She has worked within the field of alcohol and drug research for many years and has received research grants for alcohol research in both Finland and Denmark. She is the author of 6 books and editor of 11 anthologies. Robin Room is Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Contents: Foreword; Youth drinking cultures: European experiences, Margaretha Järvinen and Robin Room; Understanding cultural differences in young people's drinking, Robin Room; Drunken behaviour, expectancies and consequences among European students, Barbro Andersson and Björn Hibell; Gender differences in youth drinking cultures, Salme Ahlström; The impact of socioeconomic status on adolescent drinking behaviour, Matthias Richter, Anja Leppin, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn and Klaus Hurrelmann; The impact of parents on adolescent drinking and friendship selection processes, Rutger C.M.E. Engels, Rebecca N.H. De Leeuw, Evelien A.P. Poelen, Haske van der Vorst, Carmen S. van der Zwaluw and Jan F. van Leeuwe; Consumption beyond control. The centrality of heavy social drinking in the lifestyles of English youth, Howard Parker; Being 'taught to drink'. UK teenagers' experience, Martin Plant and Patrick Miller; Alcohol use among Danish adolescents: a self- and social identity perspective, Kirsten Verkooijen, Gert A. Nielsen, Nanne de Vries and Kim Bloomfield; Conclusion: changing drunken component or reducing alcohol-related harm, Margaretha Järvinen and Robin Room; Index.