constructing contemporary public attitudes towards alcohol. This paper draws on existing sociology and social history to highlight … interpretive explanation for this pattern is provided. Legal evidence, showing the growth of alcohol regulation and the partial … empirical support for this argument. Attitudes to alcohol exhibited during this episode were found to bear qualitative …

The cultural linkages between the drinking of alcohol and the assertion of masculinity have been well explored. In … particular, drinking alcohol is still assumed to be a site where masculinity can be tested and proved. However, equally, drinking … lager lout and the bearded ale snob represent two alternative discourse of how alcohol undermines the bounded male body …