Cannabisbruk och rättfärdigande på nätet
(2014) SOCK01 20141Sociology
- Abstract
- The goal of this study is to find out if participation in an Internet forum can help participants in that Internet forum justify an illegal use of cannabis. Today the most commonly used narcotic in Sweden is Cannabis (CAN 2012). Still, the drug has remained illegal over many years and the Swedish drug policy remains restrictive towards drug use. This paper uses Howard S. Bcker’s three forms of social control to find out if active participation in an Internet forum can help users justify their illegal marijuana consumption. The three forms of social control are; 1. supply: control through limiting of supply making the drug difficult to obtain 2. secrecy: control through the necessity of keeping ones use of cannabis secret from non users 3.... (More)
- The goal of this study is to find out if participation in an Internet forum can help participants in that Internet forum justify an illegal use of cannabis. Today the most commonly used narcotic in Sweden is Cannabis (CAN 2012). Still, the drug has remained illegal over many years and the Swedish drug policy remains restrictive towards drug use. This paper uses Howard S. Bcker’s three forms of social control to find out if active participation in an Internet forum can help users justify their illegal marijuana consumption. The three forms of social control are; 1. supply: control through limiting of supply making the drug difficult to obtain 2. secrecy: control through the necessity of keeping ones use of cannabis secret from non users 3. morality: the definition of the act as immoral (Becker 1991). This paper suggests different ways in which the forum users avoid social control, rendering them ineffective, thus justifying their illegal Cannabis consumption. The empirical data consists of quotations from conversations at the Internet forum Flashback.org which have been held between the users of Flashback-forum. The data has then been coded and sorted into typologies suggesting different ways the forum users justify their cannabis use. Results of the study show that through participation in the forum the user can to some extent avoid Becker’s social control. Social control is evident within the daily lives of the people who constitute the data; through active participation, the users can only to some extent avoid the social control thus (partially) justifying their cannabis consumption by speaking to each other. For this reason active participation within Flashback-forum will not help its users justify their cannabis consumption fully. It should be noted that due to the methodological approach, which excludes interactions with the people who constitute the data, this paper can not answer to how its conclusions correspond to the way the forum users themselves believe they justify their cannabis consumption. (Less)
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- author
- Olsson, Eric LU
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- course
- SOCK01 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- cannabis, Internet forum, justification, social control, Becker
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4778647
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- 2014-11-12 08:18:00
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abstract = {{The goal of this study is to find out if participation in an Internet forum can help participants in that Internet forum justify an illegal use of cannabis. Today the most commonly used narcotic in Sweden is Cannabis (CAN 2012). Still, the drug has remained illegal over many years and the Swedish drug policy remains restrictive towards drug use. This paper uses Howard S. Bcker’s three forms of social control to find out if active participation in an Internet forum can help users justify their illegal marijuana consumption. The three forms of social control are; 1. supply: control through limiting of supply making the drug difficult to obtain 2. secrecy: control through the necessity of keeping ones use of cannabis secret from non users 3. morality: the definition of the act as immoral (Becker 1991). This paper suggests different ways in which the forum users avoid social control, rendering them ineffective, thus justifying their illegal Cannabis consumption. The empirical data consists of quotations from conversations at the Internet forum Flashback.org which have been held between the users of Flashback-forum. The data has then been coded and sorted into typologies suggesting different ways the forum users justify their cannabis use. Results of the study show that through participation in the forum the user can to some extent avoid Becker’s social control. Social control is evident within the daily lives of the people who constitute the data; through active participation, the users can only to some extent avoid the social control thus (partially) justifying their cannabis consumption by speaking to each other. For this reason active participation within Flashback-forum will not help its users justify their cannabis consumption fully. It should be noted that due to the methodological approach, which excludes interactions with the people who constitute the data, this paper can not answer to how its conclusions correspond to the way the forum users themselves believe they justify their cannabis consumption.}},
author = {{Olsson, Eric}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Cannabisbruk och rättfärdigande på nätet}},
year = {{2014}},
}