Inspired fear in many Americans in the 1980s...quickly blamed for widespread addiction, urban street crime, and rampant gang violence.
What is Crack aka Rock aka Cocaine.
100
How do college student crack users differ from previously studied crack users? (2 specifically)
1.Live is a social world safe from financial and legal trouble.
2.Crack use is subordinate to conventional activities.
100
Name the 7 social worlds of crack users.
Residential mobility, roommates, parents, work, school, strangers and experiencs of trouble.
100
Did participants keep close ties with parents?
Yes.
100
Why did participants try to maintain crack world from entering family world?
Shame
200
Why were the American jails and prisons filled with unprecedented numbers of young minority males?
Strict laws and sentencing guidelines were imposed in response to the perceived tide of lawlessness, disorder, and inhumane violence thought to be riding a wave of crack addiction.
200
Jackson-Jacobs population included upper middle class families with parents in professional positions. Name one theory that would explain why these students use crack.
open answer.
200
What would these students do to cut back on their crack use?
move
side note: moved to use more as well.
200
Answer to 100pt for social worlds II says participants kept ties with parents. What theory can be applied or dis-proved?
open answer
200
Out of the 7 Social worlds of the crack users, which one recognizes stigma as a fear?
ALL 7
300
During the 1980s 1990s, how was the culture of crack use depicted?
Ghetto and/or street users. Crime, violence, poverty and minority status.
300
According to Mark's situation, what did it mean to lose control?
Took out and squandered loans, lost his job, dropped out of school and wrote bad checks.
300
Why was it easy for the students to move?
Finances, type of neighborhood, race and status.
300
What was one thing participants feared if identified as a crack user at work?
Accused of stealing
300
What threatened the participants identities?
Being labeled or interpreted as engaging in deviant behavior.
400
What are the 2 conditions that increase the probability of successfully avoiding crack-related trouble?
1. using in secure contexts.
2. bouding crack use from conventional life.
400
How did the students understand crack use in their lives?
-Used only for social and leisure rituals.
-They were able to control their usage
-Didn't let it control their lives.
Side note: do you agree that it didn't control their lives?
400
For these residents (college student crack users), violence was not much of a threat. What was?
Roommates gazes. Others knowledge of ones usage of crack.
400
Why was it easy to be a crack user while being in school?
-Only felt obligated to do enough to pass courses.
-Could sit quietly in class without being suspected.
-Had time.
400
Why are the ghettos known for violence, crime and addiction?
Large concentration of face-to-face interactions among those who experience the worst of America's structural inequalities.
500
Other than the drug itself, what other properties must take place in order for the drug to have an effect on an individual?
Social rituals, patterns of interactions and users understanding of the drug.
500
Where was the research taking place and what was the population?
Midwestern American college town, population of 200,000.
**Only get points if you tell us how this effected the study.**
500
What is a door man and how does this represent fear?
kept eye out for other roommates, or the "outside world"
Fear of being identified as a crack user.
500
What is the one item participants recognized as only being purchased for crack use?
Chore-Boy
500
Why/how were the college students sucessful is living normal lives while doing crack?
Open Answer. "For individuals successfully navigating conventional institutions, including university life, serious trouble is likely to be seen as both realistically avoidable and to be avoided (535).