Shifts in the social location of drinking

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History

 

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Denise M

 

Date added:

January 18, 2011

 

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College

 

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A

 

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As a college student put it in 1929, "the drunkard is still with us". The type has passed from the tired working-man to the jaded fraternity-man". While the college generation coming of age in the late 1920s and 1930s played a crucial role in its eventual entrenchment, the change to a much "wetter" cultural outlook on alcohol filtered into many segments of American society...
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In literary and bohemian subcultures, we can set the watershed as occurring a half-generation before the general middle-class change; famous American literary figures with a reputation for heavy drinking are particularly concentrated in the cohort, which came of age after 1910. Working back from cirrhosis mortality data for different birth cohorts, it seems that among urban Black Americans, primarily of lower socioeconomic status, the shift to a much "wetter" culture also begins with the cohort, which came of age during the 1920s...
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