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62 books match the query 'Reality' and 2 start with b
Becoming Alcoholic
Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of AlcoholismDavid R. Rudy. Foreword by Norman K. Denzin
Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
Affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous parallels religious conversion, according to David R. Rudy in this timely study of the most famous self-help organization in the world.
Drinkers who commit themselves to Alcoholics Anonymous embrace the radically different life-style, the altered world of the convert.
To understand this conversion and, more important, to get a grip on the even deeper mystery of alcoholism itself, Rudy sought to answer these three questions: What processes are involved in becoming alcoholic? How does the alcoholic affiliate with, and become committed to, A. A.’s belief system? What is the relationship between the world of A. A. members and that constructed by alcohologists?
Rudy establishes the history and structure of A. A. and examines the organization’s relationship to dominant sociological models, theories, and definitions of alcoholism.
Between Memory and Reality
Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870–1970Jane Marie Pederson
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992
An Osseo native looks at the enduring power of immigrant traditions in rural Trempealeau County, from its pioneer days to recent decades.