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Alcohol and Hispanics in the Northeast
This chapter summarizes the results of an ethnographic study comparing alcohol use in three Hispanic groups in a city in the northeastern United...
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Safety in urban neighborhoods: A comparison of physical characteristics and informal territorial control in high and low crime neighborhoods
This study addressed the issue of how some urban neighborhoods maintain a relatively low level of crime despite their physical proximity and social...
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Social indicators of youth development and educational performance: A programmatic statement
This paper argues for the use of social indicators, in conjunction with the traditional norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests, to assess the...
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Definitions and diagnoses: Cultural implications of psychiatric help-seeking and psychiatrists' definitions of the situation in psychiatric emergencies
This paper explores lay and psychiatric actors' definitions of mental illness by focusing on several aspects of emergency psychiatric diagnosis....
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Conspiracy, Paranoia and the problem of knowledge
Using a case study, this paper presents a critique of Lemert's classic paper, “Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion.” Starting from the position...
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Indigenous and expatriate addicts in Laos: A Comparison
Opium addiction has been reported among virtually all large ethnic groups in Asia. Conspicuous by its absence has been any mention of addiction among...
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Comments on the drug abuse problem
These remarks are intended to supplement Dr Pichot’s interesting contribution (see pp. 286–303). Organized society in every country is in a dilemma...