Recovery careers of people in Alcoholics Anonymous: moral careers revisited

From: Contemporary Drug Problems | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The concept of the "moral career" has been used to study the normative sequence of statuses that the mental patient (Goffman, 1959), the marijuana user (Becker, 1953), and the psychiatric resident (Light, 1980) experience as they develop a new identity. This work is limited, though, because these three authors do not discuss variations from the normative model of the moral careers they describe. In this paper I reexamine the moral career looking at participants in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). While a wealth of research has been devoted to studying the recovery careers of AA participants, the ...

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