Habits Of Young People Research Articles

Young People's Alcohol Habits

In 1984, researchers in the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Sociology conducted a survey in Moscow Region concerning the alcohol habits of young people. In 1988, three years after the antialcohol edict, the survey was repeated. The toughening of the legislation and regulations governing the sale of alcohol, and the mass media's massive offensive against drunkenness, one would have thought, should have resulted in an increase in the number of abstainers among young people. However, this did not take place.

Making meaning of citizenship: How ‘born frees’ use media in South Africa's democratic evolution

By examining young people's habits of using the media in relation to citizenship, this article responds to calls that the starting point for research into citizenship and democracy should be the perspectives of citizens themselves. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research with young South Africans (the ‘born free’ generation), the study sought to gain insight into how young people use media to make sense of notions of citizenship and participatory democracy in ways that are relevant and reliable to their everyday lives. The findings suggest that young South Africans are distrustful of politicians and political institutions. Media consumption was high amongst participants, as well as media trust, but the lack of relevance of media content suggests that those wanting to engage with the youth through the media need to target content through more youth-orientated genres.

The Drinking Patterns of Negro and White High School Students in Two Mississippi Communities

In recent years there has been a rapidly expanding literature on the role of beverage alcohol in the adolescent subculture. Consequently, it is now possible to posit several generalizations with respect to the factors associated with the use and nonuse of intoxicants within this population group.1 Virtually untouched, however, are studies of the drinking habits of young people of different racial and ethnic background. Accordingly, the focus of this paper is to make a comparative analysis of the social factors related to the use and the nonuse of alcohol by a sample of white and Negro high school students in two Mississippi communities.

Carcinoma of the lung in Iceland. A summary and some reflections concerning more recent principles for diagnosis and treatment.

During the period 1931-1964, 197 cases of primary carcinoma of the lung were diagnosed in Iceland. From 1964 to May 1968, 48 additional cases were admitted to the Department of Thoracic Surgery, but the total number of such cases during that period is still unknown.Carcinoma of the lung is increasing in Iceland, and there is a definite correlation with the sale of cigarettes. The incidence among women, particularly in urban areas, is high.The relationship between smoking and histological classification is discussed, as well as the smoking habits of young people. There is a preponderance of oat cell and undifferentiated carcinoma in this series.The histological classification is shown of patients undergoing resections and exploratory thoracotomies and of those excluded from surgery.To the Department of Thoracic Surgery 131 patients were admitted during the period 1955-May 1968. Surgery was performed in 84 patients: 36 resections and 48 exploratory thoracotomies (operability rate 64.1% and 42.9%, resectabil...

Changes in the function of radio with the adoption of television

What happens to the other mass media when television becomes established in a community? What changes in attention habits develop among the members of the potential audiences? Most studies of these changes have been made on a pre‐ and post‐basis, over a period of time. The present report analyzes two comparable Canadian towns, one with television, the other still without, during the same year, 1959. This comparison of the mass media attention habits of children in “TVtown” and “Radiotown” covers radio, television, book and comic book reading. Its concept is very similar to the report by William S. Baxter starting on p. 49 on the listening, reading and viewing habits of young people in Des Moines in 1950 and 1958. Although the two studies were not written for direct comparison, the Journal feels that it will be of value to its readers for them to be placed in juxtaposition.