Community Prevention of Alcohol Problems

by Marja Holmila (Editor), Marja Holmila (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $27.67

  This book is an action research study of a community at work. The community prevention project set the system in motion, revealing its character and internal dynamics. This process and its context are analyzed from a sociological point of view. It is shown that the type of community prevention that really works and creates sustainable changes, is neither value neutral nor given from above: it adheres to reason, rituals and emotions alike, and requires subjective involvement of the people in the community.