عنوان

An exploratory study of the social representations of heroin and heroin users

شماره

TLets520943

عنوان اصلي

An exploratory study of the social representations of heroin and heroin users

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Corcoran, Paula

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

City University London

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2008

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

D.Psych.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

City University London

امتياز متن

2008

متن يادداشت

The aim of this PhD was to explore the social representations of heroin and heroin users. There are an estimated 300,000 heroin addicts in the UK today (NTA, 2008) and despite the normalisation of other illicit drugs (Parker, Aldridge & Measham, 1998) this group remains marginalised and stigmatised in comparison to other recreational drug users. Social representations (Moscovici, 1984) are formed through social interaction and these shared representations allow individuals to make sense of their social reality, providing a basis of references with which to guide their relations to the world. Therefore a social representations approach was used in order to gain a greater understanding of how this group is perceived within society today. Three studies were conducted in this research using focus groups, a media analysis and semi-structured interviews. These studies provided the corpus of data which was analysed using a content and thematic analysis (Joffe & Yardley, 2004). Two core social representations emerged from the data set and these were the social representations of heroin as addictive and heroin as bad. I found that participants distanced themselves from heroin users and distinguished between their own recreational drug use and the behaviours of heroin users. The role of control and responsibility were important dimensions in this process and a lack of control was feared by most participants. The social representations showed that this drug remains distinct from other recreational drugs and the heroin user was perceived as an addict, a criminal and a patient at the same time. Implications for anti-drug campaigns and treatment approaches were considered.

موضوع مستند نشده

BF Psychology

موضوع مستند نشده

HM Sociology

موضوع مستند نشده

HT Communities. Classes. Races

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Corcoran, Paula

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

City University London

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y