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Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Deviant Drinking

A Longitudinal Application of Social Structure and Social Learning Theory

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ID2155423
AuthorsJames D Orcutt (Florida State University, corresponding author), Annette M Schwabe (Florida State University)
Year2012
Volume32
Issue1
Pages20-36
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Spectrum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02732173.2012.628553
OpenAlexW2061032109
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited21

Aker’s (1998) theory of social structure and social learning (SSSL) argues that structural variations in deviant behavior, such as gender or race/ethnic differences in underage or heavy drinking, are mediated by social learning variables. However, longitudinal analyses of deviant drinking in an urban sample of white, black, and Hispanic adolescents fail to sup-port the SSSL mediation hypothesis. Significant gender and race/ethnic differences persist after controls for social learning variables as well as for social bonding variables. Interac-tion effects involving two social bonding variables—family attachment and moral belief— point to theoretically important conditions that maintain a gender gap in underage drinking and relatively low levels of deviant drinking among African American adolescents. Some of the strongest and most consistent patterns in epidemiological research on adolescent alcohol use involve gender and race=ethnic differences. Young men tend to drink more frequently, in heavier quantities, and with more problematic conse-quences than do young women (Johnston et al. 2007; Office of the Surgeon General 2007; Wallace et al. 2003). Similarly, white adolescents in the United States are more frequent and heavier users of alcohol than are Hispanic, African American

Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Longitudinal study · Mediation · Social control theory · Social learning · Social learning theory · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

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