Transgressive Drinking Practices and the Subversion of Proscriptive Alcohol Policy Messages

Chris Hackley, Andrew Bengry-Howell, Christine Griffin , Isabelle Szmigin, Willm Mistral, Rungpaka Amy Hackley

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Abstract

This research makes a new contribution to alcohol policy practice and theory by demonstrating that transgression of officially sanctioned norms and values is a key component of the sub- and counter cultural drinking practices of some groups of young consumers. Therefore, policy messages that proscribe these drinking practices with moral force are likely to be subverted and rendered counter-productive. The qualitative analysis draws on critical geography and literary theories of the carnivalesque to delineate three categories of transgression: transgressions of space and place, transgressions of the body, and transgressions of the social order. Implications for alcohol policy are discussed.

Open access http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296315001253
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2125-2131
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Business Research
Volume68
Issue number10
Early online date18 Mar 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2015

Keywords

  • Alcohol policy
  • transgression
  • binge drinking
  • young people

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