Drunken Comportment of Urban Indians: "Time-out" Behavior?

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The "time-out" conception of drunken comportment (MacAndrew and Edgerton 1969), which holds that intoxication allows drunken individuals to avoid the social sanctions that are normally applied to untoward behavior, is critically examined in relation to the drinking patterns of the "everyday" Indians of Sioux City, Iowa. The time-out view is found to be inappropriate because offended individuals do negatively sanction drunken norm violators. It is argued that by stressing the possibility of a society viewing alcohol as a producer of moral incompetency MacAndrew and Edgerton underplay the extent to which intoxication helps to establish "boundary markers" or "framing cues" for a variety of situations within a single society.

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