Zimmmerman-Wieder1977
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Zimmmerman-Wieder1977 |
| Author(s) | Don H. Zimmerman, D. Lawrence Wieder |
| Title | You can’t help but get stoned: notes on the social organization of marijuana smoking |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Drugs |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Journal | Social Problems |
| Volume | 25 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 198–207 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.2307/800295 |
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Abstract
Informants participating in an ethnographic study of a counter-culture community in Southern California reported that marijuana use was so pervasive in the community that it was "hard to turn the thing down." However, attempts to pin informants down on specific group arrangements for promoting marijuana use were met with the claim that smoking was "spontaneous," done at the whim of the individual for a variety of motives unrelated to most social occasions. These somewhat different accounts of marijuana smoking were examined as embedded instructions on how to understand the nature of this activity in its community context, leading to an analysis of the social organization of routine marijuana use and its relationship to members' accounts of that practice.
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