HEALTH CARE Alcohol Anonymous

HEALTH CARE Alcohol Anonymous
From Health-Care: III. Describe an Open, Speaker Meeting of AA or NA, •Where was the study done? •Who are the participants? •Where do you fit in? (as a student, as a stranger, etc) •What techniques did you use? (direct observation or participant observation) Description and Analysis Conclusions:What are your own explanations and views? Does it say some something about 12-step meetings in general? A Biocultural Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous

Describe an Open, Speaker Meetingof AA or NA, or an Al-Anon Meeting
•	Where was the study done?
•	Who are the participants? (please do not use real names) Provide a sense of their background (age, gender educational background, ethnic background, socioeconomic level)
•	Where do you fit in? (as a student, as a stranger, etc)
•	What techniques did you use? (direct observation or participant observation) 
Description and Analysis
Describe in detail what you observed, in an organized manner. Use plenty of examples. For each example, or examples, first describe, then analyze. What factors can explain why the persons you observed acted the way they did? How much weight do you put on ritual, organizational rules, sociality, social and emotional support or fellowship? How much on age, gender, or social class?
 Conclusions:What are your own explanations and views? You will have already analyzed your examples in the descriptive section of the report. Here you want to pull together these analyses together with some general statements. You can refer back to some examples, but do not repeat the descriptions. Use and cite the writings of Erich Goode, Alfred Katz, Susan Cheever and Miriam Rodin to help to clarify what you observed.Why do you think the events took place in the way that they did, and that people acted as they did? Does it say some something about 12-step meetings in general? Does it say anything about the nature of interpersonal relations, organizational behavior, or human interaction? In your arguments, make sure that your description and analysis section backs up your conclusions.Do not look for the one and only explanation. It probably does not exist. Your views and what you make of the events are what is important, both for the other class members, for me, and for yourself.
 Sources: 
Susan Cheever. Montreal; Towns Hospital; The Oxford Group; Akron, Ohio; 182 Clinton Street; Not Maximum. My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Erich Goode. Drugs in American Society, Seventh Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
 Alfred H. Katz. Common Characteristics of Self-Help Groups Self-Help in America: A Social Movement Perspective. New York: Twayne, 1993.  
Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham. The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Miriam B. Rodin. Getting on the Program: A Biocultural Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous. In The American Experience with Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives, Linda A. Bennett & Genevieve M. Ames, eds. New York: Plenum, 1985.