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Being part of an anti-school subculture whilst in education and the likelihood of becoming a binge drinker.
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Rationale Binge drinking has been fairly topic in the media of late. There is supposedly a moral panic about the changing social habits of girls who can now drink similar quantities of alcohol to their male counterparts. Because this slant has been so extensively documented, I opted to re-visit binge drinking but a different, yet equally pertinent angle; the experiences of binge drinkers when they were at school. I covered numerous theories of delinquency in the AS Youth Subculture topic. One in particular interested me; it gave different possible outcomes and this I thought made sense! I even thought that perhaps Merton had discovered this possible causal link years before me, when he looked at the rebels who turned to drink. He omitted the concept 'binge' though! Perhaps that is just a reflection of social change. To re-cap, then, I am investigating the possibility of there being a causal link between...
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