The Lyndon Community, PO Box 9374, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia.
Alcohol Alcohol. 2012 Sep-Oct;47(5):624-9. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/ags074. Epub 2012 Jul 4.
This study aimed to explore rural Australians' perceptions of social and cultural factors influencing alcohol use in their communities.
Semi-structured interviews exploring rural community key informants' (n = 46) perceptions of social and cultural factors influencing alcohol consumption in their community were conducted. A narrative analysis identified cultural capital as a salient concept for explaining how rural community life is created and sustained via drinking practices.
Themes relating to participants' accounts of learning to drink, normal drinking; exclusion because of not drinking and problematic drinkers are described.
In rural communities, beliefs and values about drinking as a positive social practice are transmitted, rewarded and reproduced across multiple groups and settings, reinforcing that drinking is an integral part of Australian rural culture. Drinking is so important that engaging in drinking practices creates and sustains cultural capital. As a result, alcohol-related harm is of little concern to rural dwellers.
本研究旨在探讨澳大利亚农村居民对影响社区饮酒的社会和文化因素的看法。
对农村社区关键知情者（n=46）进行了半结构化访谈，探讨了影响社区饮酒的社会和文化因素。叙述性分析确定了文化资本是一个突出的概念，用于解释农村社区生活是如何通过饮酒行为来创造和维持的。
描述了与参与者关于学习饮酒、正常饮酒、因不饮酒而被排斥和问题饮酒者的描述相关的主题。
在农村社区，关于饮酒作为一种积极的社交行为的信念和价值观通过多个群体和环境进行传递、奖励和复制，强化了饮酒是澳大利亚农村文化不可或缺的一部分。饮酒非常重要，参与饮酒行为创造和维持了文化资本。因此，农村居民很少关注与饮酒相关的伤害。
