Philippe Bourgois' Reading: In Search of Respect

Philippe Bourgois’ Reading
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Question 1: What do you think?
Philippe Bourgois provides a masterpiece elaboration on social understanding on drug use and addiction. I love theoretical explanation especially the social theories about drug use and addiction. Based on the reading, most ideas are essential in explaining drug use and addiction among people. In most cases, doctors or psychiatrists, practitioners and policy makers or counsellors use biological and psychological factors when elaborating on an addict or a drug abuser. Both the biological aspects or theories and psychological theories centre on the individualistic understanding of the causes of substance abuse and addiction. However, one aspect comes out clearly from the theoretical explanation. Most of the criminal behaviours of the drug users and addicts are difficult to elaborate based on only biological and psychological aspect. Therefore, this book reveals that a sociological point may give a new way of examining such behaviours. To affirm the sentiments, the sociological theories of drug use and addiction provides the intentional aspect when managing drug use and addiction. The sociological theory expounds on the aetiology of drug use based on the social aspects of society such as the culture and structural issues that lead to high predisposing of the drug users in different groups to use a particular drug which is different from another group using an en...