Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course (1st ed. 2022)

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions. Alcohol is shown to play an important role in biographical transitions, such as in the coming of age rituals that mark the passage from adolescences to adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and in later life takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light of shifting roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure and the family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural contexts provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at different life course stages and explores both continuity and change between generations.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2022
Editors:	Thomas Thurnell-Read • Laura Fenton
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	352
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-104019-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-104019-8
Barcode:	9783031040191

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