Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle—age or later life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions.

Alcohol is shown to play an important role in biographical transit...