Alcohol and the Imperative of Health in Mass Society: Images of Alcohol Policy among the Local Elites

Abstract

A starting point for the Lahti research is that social problems are conceptual constructions. Any sociological intervention, in fact any reasonable sociological theory, must assume that some kind of communicability is the foundation of the social order, whatever its nature and whatever its degree of consensus.

*L07 Akseli (M):98* to me it’s clear that availability increases the problem, there’s no doubt, but what’s not so clear is whether availability should be restricted … after all we’re living in a free democracy, so to what extent can people be patronized? Personally I’ve always felt that grown up people can look after themselves, but when we have problems with people who cannot look after themselves then of course it’s down to society to take over, and of course we all have to pay for it, for all the billions that diseases caused by alcohol use are costing.