School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Health Sciences School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2024 Mar;43(3):675-684. doi: 10.1111/dar.13710. Epub 2023 Jul 4.
While international literature addresses the links between youth culture and the decline in youth drinking, little research has engaged with scholarship on youth geographies to more fully disentangle these links. This article explores how the decline is connected to shifts in where young people access and drink alcohol.
Qualitative interviews were conducted with young people aged 12-19 (N = 96) and 29-35 (N = 17) years in England. The interviews explored the place of alcohol in everyday life, with younger participants discussing the present and older participants discussing their youth in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Data were analysed thematically.
Buying alcohol in shops and licensed premises was a common experience for older participants when they were teenagers but few younger participants discussed buying alcohol from commercial settings. Older participants also reflected positively on drinking in outdoor public spaces whereas younger participants, particularly those from working-class backgrounds, regarded this as morally suspect. Young participants instead accessed alcohol from parents and siblings, and often consumed it in their or others' homes in supervised or moderated ways, seeing this as positive and normative.
Spatial shifts in young people's drinking away from public spaces and toward the home appear an important part of a wider trend that renders youth drinking as increasingly moderate, risk-averse, incidental and mediated by parents, rather than excessive, transgressive and integral to youth culture.
尽管国际文献探讨了青年文化与青少年饮酒量下降之间的联系，但很少有研究涉及到青年地理学方面的学术研究，以更全面地厘清这些联系。本文探讨了年轻人获取和饮酒的地点变化如何与这种下降趋势相关。
在英格兰，对 12-19 岁（N=96）和 29-35 岁（N=17）的年轻人进行了定性访谈。这些访谈探讨了酒精在日常生活中的地位，年轻参与者讨论了现在的情况，而年长参与者则讨论了他们在 20 世纪 90 年代末到 21 世纪初的青年时期。数据采用主题分析法进行分析。
对于年长的参与者来说，在商店和许可场所购买酒精是一种常见的体验，但很少有年轻的参与者讨论从商业场所购买酒精。年长的参与者还对在户外公共空间饮酒持积极态度，而年轻的参与者，尤其是那些来自工人阶级背景的参与者，认为这在道德上是可疑的。年轻的参与者则从父母和兄弟姐妹那里获取酒精，并且经常在自己或他人的家中以监督或适度的方式消费，他们认为这是积极和正常的。
年轻人饮酒地点从公共空间向家庭转移的空间变化，似乎是一种更广泛趋势的重要组成部分，这种趋势使得青少年饮酒变得越来越适度、规避风险、偶然发生，并受到父母的影响，而不是过度、越轨和成为青年文化的重要组成部分。
