Availability of Alcoholic Beverages During the Brazilian Navy Working Hours

Elizabeth Espindola Halpern and Ligia Costa Leite

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 1, 2158244015574626

Abstract: This article presents and discusses one of the five main categories that emerged from the narratives of patients treated in a military outpatient clinic of the Brazilian Navy: the availability of drinks on board. A dense ethnography was conducted at this clinic from 2005 to 2009, and, in 2010, a participant observation was carried out in two treatment groups, during 24 sessions. Sampling, data collection, analysis, and interpretation occurred in an interactive way, rather than in a stepwise sequence. Data interpretation was possible by using the Peircean abduction reasoning of the peculiar categories that emerged in the participants’ discourse. A templum -synthesis was built according to the Boudon diagram to analyze and discuss the information. In conclusion, the institution seems to contribute to the production of the alcoholic habitus , unaware that alcohol availability may influence the emergence of alcoholism, leading to harmful impacts on the health of its contingent.

Keywords: social psychology; psychology; social sciences; alcohol; drugs; and tobacco; sociology of health and illness; sociology; sociology of work; social anthropology; cultural anthropology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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