Lindesmith on Addiction
A Critical History of a Classic Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2247223 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darin Weinberg (0000-0002-5952-9991, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 150-161 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0735-2751.00029 |
| OpenAlex | W2137926520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 36 |
The evolution of Alfred Lindesmith's classic theory of addiction is analyzed as a product of the particular intellectual currents and controversies in and for which it was developed. These include the conflicts that pitted qualitative against quantitative sociology; the fledgling discipline of sociology against medicine, psychiatry, and psychology; and advocates of therapy for addicts against those who would simply punish them. By casting the meaningful experience of drug effects exclusively in terms of symbolically mediated mental representations of brute physiological sensations, Lindesmith's theory posits an epistemologically untenable dualism between mental and bodily perception that unnecessarily limits the explanatory scope of sociological research. As an alternative to this dualism, a praxiological approach to the meaning of drug-induced behavior and experience is proposed
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |