Alcohol has long been used by humankind for the various reasons, eg, emotional, ceremonial, and even as a tranquilizer etc. Thus drinking pattern of a certain group is well reflected on its cultural climate.
It is very this reason that, in the field of social science, oie avenue to understand the pattern of culture is via analyzing that of drinking.
Unfortunately, however, not many studies have been done about so called "social drinker" camparing to the numerous studies done about "alcoholism".
The authors attempted to study a general pattern of drinking among Korean male adult.
Two thousands copies of questionnaire which consists of 35 items, were distributed to the college students and parents of school children randomly as follows:
1) To compare the geographical differences; city of Taegu and town of Sang-Joo were selected for study.
2) To compare the generational defferences; Freshman and sophomore classes at Kyungpook National University were selected.
Some of the meaningful findings are as follows;
1) Two thirds of Korean male adult drink alcohol occasionally, to be defined as so called "social drinker". and a third might be called ´regular drinker".
2) Majority drink alcohol for the purpose of more smooth interpersonal relation, rather than escape from reality.
3) Traditoinally as it has been, still majority of Korean male are quite against female drinking.
4) Majority. drink low concentrated alcohol in larger amount.
5) Majority drink outside of home which is quite different from our tradition, thus its considered modernization slowly has begun to effect drinking pattern also.
6) Student group drinks for the emotional reason and they are more permissive toward the female drinking.
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