when things go wrong, there's a payoff in the way that they take care of each other. They're taking care of each other, maybe in a way - in an adult way - that they haven't before. And these are emerging adults, who are sort of trying on adult roles. Their co-drinkers will mobilize and help each other out, and there's a payoff.
" 'Drinking crises' is what I call it, when somebody gets arrested, or sick, or upset over a relationship or something. My data sort of suggests that part of the reason they continue is because of those things that go wrong. "One of my questions was, why do they continue to do this, when so much can and does go wrong? Getting sick, getting arrested, getting in fights and all that. On why students continue to drink, even when things go badly And there is that support there to help each other out." "Those risks are certainly there, and the students are well aware of that. They have little games and signs that they use with one another to say, 'Get this guy away from me,' that sort of thing. So when it comes to sexual victimization, one of the things that they do is step in when they see a friend who's too intoxicated and leaving a party with somebody. "Drinking partners look out for each other. But you know, when I talk about this as a social process, one of the things that I came to appreciate was the very high level of informal social support that's occurring in the drinking scene. It is usually characterized by off-beat dancing, the stripping of clothes, groping strangers, the overwhelming smell of fruity alcohol, and a general sloppiness that can only be associated with drinking. "After seven years of research on this, the thing that troubled me most. The phenomenon which occurs when a person consumes too much alcohol and proceeds to embarrass themselves and their friends for however long they remain conscious. On how young drinkers look out for one another So I just don't think they're pressured or. Make no mistake about it, there are horrible things happening in the drinking scene. So it does create a world of adventure for them. "One of my respondents says alcohol 'takes a few bricks out of the wall.' What he's saying is it allows him to do and say things that he would not normally do.
They're more courageous, more socially dexterous they're able to approach people that they're interested in romantically or sexually and they kind of take their guard down. Because anything can happen inhibitions are down people say and do things that they wouldn't normally do. "When you have a lot of young people together drinking to intoxication, for some of them, they feel it's fun.
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