Drug Use as Deviance
Using the information provided in the Chapter 8 PowerPoint, answer the following questions.
1. As we have discussed throughout this course, the positivist and constructionist approaches view social phenomena through different “lenses”that is, the different approaches are valued because they address different research questions.
- What are some of the questions that might be of interest to sociologists using a positivist approach?
- Why are these questions important?
- If we learn something about the answers to these questions, what are some of the potential benefits?
- What particular theory or theories do you think help us understand and explain alcohol and drug use from a positivist approach?
2. What are some questions that would lend themselves to a constructionist approach?
- What do you think are the most important questions we should try to address about alcohol and drug use using this approach?
- What do we hope to learn and how might this ‘knowledge’ be of value?
- What particular theory or theories do you think help us understand and explain alcohol and drug use from a constructionist approach?
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