Social capital as norms and resources: Focus groups discussing alcohol

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-101

  Demant, Jakob ^a   Järvinen, Margaretha ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

alcohol; focus groups; qualitative methods; Social capital; social theory; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952255487     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066351003725776     Document Type: Article

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