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Finnish drinking occasions in 2008 – The waxing and waning drinking contexts

Finnish drinking occasions in 2008 – The waxing and waning drinking contexts. Janne Härkönen The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies. Drinking occasion.

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Finnish drinking occasions in 2008 – The waxing and waning drinking contexts

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  1. Finnish drinking occasions in 2008 – The waxing and waning drinking contexts Janne Härkönen The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies

  2. Drinkingoccasion ”The attributes, which are used to distinguish between drinking occasions that we everyday drunkards experience as qualitatively different, should be sought for” Klaus Mäkelä 1970 • Social situation as a research subject (Goffman 1956) • Two perspectives: • Properties • Properties within occasion: e.g. volume, beverage type. • Properties between occasions: e.g. prevalence, population subgroups • Typology • General attributes vs. culturally specific typology

  3. Typology of drinking occasions • General attributes • drinking level • time, place and company • motivations for drinking (Törrönen & Maunu 2007) • Culturally specific attributes • Social context of the drinking occasion (Simpura 1983) • Other possible attributes • Social functions of the drinking (Partanen 1985) • Norms, tolerance towards drinking

  4. Data • Sample of the Finnish population 15-69 years of age • 559 transcripted descriptions of the last drinking occasion (RR 67 %, 314 women, 254 men) • Additional 115 descriptions reported by the interviewer

  5. Typology of drinkingcontexts(Simpura 1983)

  6. Distribution of the latestdrinkingoccasion (%)Everyday life contexts

  7. Distribution of the latestdrinkingoccasion (%)Non-everyday life contexts

  8. Situationalgenres of drinking(Törrönen & Maunu 2007) • 60 drinkingdiarieswrittenbyyoungadultsaged 23-35 • Emphasis on findingemergingdrinkingsituations

  9. Situationalgenres of drinking

  10. Preliminary analysis of 100 descriptions:Distribution of the motives of drinking

  11. Preliminary analysis of 100 descriptions:Distribution of the courses of action

  12. Preliminary analysis of 100 descriptions:Distribution of the genres of drinking situation

  13. Conclusions • Change towards non-everyday drinking contexts: • Waxing: ‘meals’, ‘evenings at home’, ‘going to sauna’, ‘paying visits’ and especially ‘family celebrations’ • Part of overall change towards drinking in private sphere? • Waning: ‘entertainment contexts’, and especially ‘undefined everyday life’ and ‘simply drinking’/’medicinal use’ • Partly due to methodological differences • Interviewees more reflective to their drinking? • Changes in properties of contexts? • Do drinking contexts vary between men and woman? • Need for typology update?

  14. Thank you! janne.harkonen@helsinki.fi

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