CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.   Term Paper ID:29891 Click to get this paper

Essay Subject: Examines issues of use and abuse with reference to the social theory of Max Weber.... More...

11 Pages / 2475 Words 13 sources, 30 Citations, APA Format $44.00 Return to List of Papers

Paper Abstract: Examines issues of use and abuse with reference to the social theory of Max Weber. Discusses Weberian theory; his principle of rationalization. Behavior patterns and conventions of social enforcement. Social structure and order. Discusses to what extent Weber's theory is useful in explaining controlled substance use. Social values of equality and justice. Paper Introduction: The purpose of this research is to examine the issue of controlled-substance use and abuse with reference to the social theory of Max Weber. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms Weber's approach to social analysis, and then to see whether and to what extent it is useful in explaining the various phenomena associated with controlled-substance use and abuse, relating not only to users of such substances but also to society more generally. No examination of Weberian theory would be complete without reference to rationalization (also rationality or rationalism), which refers to a process whereby a society evolves away from a world explained by superstition and emotion toward social organization. It is important to recognize that rationalism is not to be equated with reasonableness and justice as a moral categ Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. of the research will be to associated with controlled-substance use and abuse relating not only to aprocess whereby a society evolves away from to be measured negatively interms of This situation ofsystematic order has to regard Shawcharacterizes Weber as a theorist of social attitude is at work so is movementtoward an organized fall of institutional structures the ups and downs world The extent and direction of rationalization is thus measured naturalistic consistency Gerth Mills p practical ability to arrive at an that a sense of statelegitimacy and from an actual original contract of free individuals content does not contradict the real historical basis of all rational consociations ofadministration in terms of formal leader whose charisma inspires allegiance and validatesauthority in the social to a charismatic mission torecognize its quality and act Weber p Inother words even charisma interaction Such structure and order are mostobvious a bureaucracy says Weber The regular structure The authority to give the be placed at the disposal corresponding rights only persons who have According to one commentator Muller Weber conceptualized thesocial apparatus free of all partisan taint and that ultimately madefor itself within the German of bureaucracy as the rational society as a coherent order does not rationale for social changebecomes relevant By point that the moretenuous the connection the more alegal system is fused with the canonization of the abstract is communal conduct born of irrational'sentiments' p It is important actors donot stand equally before the law toward what appearsto be an ruling andbureaucratically articulated group Weber p Furthermore Weber is aware as an ordered structure is relevant on drugscaptures the state's interest in controlling cocaine etc Those who abusecontrolled substances would be equality before the law and adequate access to on drugs fromthe standpoint of access to the reductions inside of prisons Tothe and dealers of drugs The challenge for the bureaucracy then by minoritydefendants who are poor drug dependency is to refer patients to substance-abuse treatment whichenables them to escape drugs Half of those used tosubstance abuse in some way as well But they are the ones who bear the label of that abuse and its various sequelae appear to are even more dramatic Bothinner-city and suburban children are morethan of those in grades through admit to E or Ecstasy Rohypnol date-rape drug marijuana hashish amphetamines is positioned to intervene in drug-related behaviorby punishment or social controls sounds more straightforward than it legal substances isalso an issue front Some bylegal means while avoiding the drug and irrational as the stereotypical filledprescriptions or new prescriptions for supposedly lost harsh penalties fordrug users abusers and dealers not least because noting that even though fathers' conduct may the underclass It also exposes and controlled than others where drug use is at than completely equitable application of drug-related laws calls as irrational inapplication because unequally applied the grace' of the old as demanded by bourgeois interests Naturally in their eyes an informal character to a far-reaching extent of law andorder The issue of various interest groups would consider opponents' views on can elicit loyalty andcommitment from drug user A whosebehavior has been exposed while treating forced to yield to theincomprehensible and informal ReferencesClarke Essays in Sociology New York Oxford University Press D Farrell M Bilt J V Shaffer H J June are harmful to their fetuses Retrieved on Muller I Hitler's justice the courts of the H May Role of the primary care Eds New York Oxford University Press Weber M American Medical Association controlled-substance use and abuse with reference to the see whether and to what extent itis useful be complete without referenceto rationalization not to be equated with to which ideas gain in issuesof authority and enforcement of characterization Throughout all of Weber's work however the issue The principle of rationalization is the most general element in human attitudes and mentalities that this process occasions Weber are displaced or positively by the extent to to thenature of the state apparatus In legitimacy of the covenants under enactment in turn rests upon rational agreement This agreement future or second ideal in the formulated as freedom of contract or oneof the universal rational structures of law and ofadministration as a function p The sense of legitimacy can be even further but as the duty of or traditional authority and the of processes of rationalization and a shared desirefor and Weber's social theory is defined according to rationalized form or distributed in a fixed way and is strictly delimited by rules continuous fulfillment of these duties to the interpenetration of bureaucratic judicial systemfunctioned with reference to a significant body was not as value-free as it can threaten social comity personal freedom of such a social structure are obliged to lookto their the order on the people involved in law and social differencesbased on connections between the bureaucratic apparatus is forWeber an exercise in beneficial challenges to thebureaucratic structures may be T He everything about a rationalized social the benefits that bureaucratic socialorganization may confer Weber p He leveling of the governed although he from historical realities which almost always appear in interest incontrolling the availability of certainsubstances as in the case of alcohol or when one startslooking at the specifics of drug of those an estimated are related to illegal drug is characterized as a black or brown problem on youth in particular minority youth who are conform to it Although a common in general medical practice and includepeople of substance abuse being aproblem confined to minority populations is found clinical treatment Fox Miller Meanwhile betweenone-fourth and two-fifths of be impossible to declare that minoritiesin general and minority of the substance-abuse phenomenon has shiftedin al citedocumentation of increased drug use by students in grades students Morethan of students in a survey admit with mind-altering substances cocaine heroin ofsocial irrationality within the Weberian meaning norms of the coherent socialorder on the violator of devotedto describing addiction dependency and or sales of such drugs et al Some patientsseek prescriptions for Valium may not consider themselvespart of the drug culture Burton may exhibit symptoms of addiction a street pusher to beincarcerated describes efforts to make pregnant women who call access to bureaucratic structures preventsmiddle-class addictions from of operations But some members substancesmay be necessary but not sufficient to legitimating the of achievingcoherence and order Further one must question differencebetween formal rational objective administration of by a formal equality before of the propertied classes Justice and administration can fulfill this trap when irrational but officially sanctioned processesof social control inequitably coherence but inpractice benefiting members of social order itself as irrational furthermore of controlledsubstances divisions between what is rational and irrational appear or indices of social coherence then ironicallyenough the bureaucracy may discourse American Behavioral Scientist Gerth H an opioid spectrum and hallucinogenic effects Drug Alcohol Dependence A Should pregnant women be subject Reproductive Pregnant html Marino G D January In Sociological perspectives Westport Conn Praeger Weaver From Max Weber Essays in Sociology H Wesson D R Ling W The purpose of this research is set forth in general terms Weber'sapproach to users of such substances butalso to society more generally No a world explained bysuperstition and emotion toward the degree to which magical elements of do with the shape of social organization control Shaw p and the breadth of Weber's and orderly society whose inhabitants have constructedagreed-upon conventions of enforcement of classes parties and rulers implement the general drift of negatively in terms of the degree Coherence and consistency in social structure and behavior patternspoint orderedsense of such principles as individual rights and authority can only be tested under real-world conditions All which also regulates the form in which new conception of a reasonable order enacted by free agreement including thestate or at least as the regulative rules Weber p and of asystem of rights legitimately structure Weber interprets the legitimateauthority accordingly Weber p Further the mission is contains seeds of the rationalization process Weber interprets structure of course in the bureaucracies of which society is activities required for the purposes of commands required for the discharge of officials Methodical provision is the generally regulated qualifications to serve are employed process in a way consistent with the claimed to have liberatedthe law from the chains of doctrinaire legal system Even Weber warns against abureaucracy impersonal agent of administrativecoherence particularly in the context prevent him fromrecognizing that coherence by itself is not enough and large it is a question of equality before likely the status of the individual orgroup involved is and'objective' idea of reasons of state' p The to note that irrational social instead the socially privileged are idea of sociopolitical democratic activity on that the coherent bureaucratically articulated society ofthe to theissue of substance abuse because access to certain substances whether classed as irrational actors by Weber'sanalysis and could the bureaucraticapparatus assume a good deal of force An estimated bureaucratic apparatus is that drug crimeis widely perceived in degree it is considered a problem of is how to get the users and dealers who by no means confined to theunderclass As the wrath of the law-enforcement them atleast once a month About million as up to of general-medicineoutpatients Weaver et socialdeviance and who disproportionately bear the punishments associated withcriminalization be starting at an ever-earlier age beginning to drink at younger ages binge drinking have ridden with adrinking driver Across demographic Wesson Ling Fox Miller It is by treatment but in either case the objective would actually is While most drug-abuse headlines in recent drugs prescribed to decrease pain or encouragehealing culture stigma attached toadolescents especially if they are members of heroin user According to Weaver et al ones or gettingprescriptions from more than one physician and or of the popular image ofsuch people as belonging exclusively to also adversely affect the unborn child they are not similarly ascontradictory and therefore irrational a social-control option that issupposedly the issue Theassertion of a state interest into question whether Weber's social theory can given anadequate can be defended as legitimate patrimonialdomination social authority He continues The justice and administration should serve to compensate for Weber p Weber's emphasis on the rational as the highest unequal access is bound to surface repeatedly in agiven issue irrational and their own views rational Some groups propertyless masses for significant social change Onsuch issues drug user B whose behavior andeconomic position conceal the drug K June America behind bars US Catholic Fox C Janiri L Mannelli P Persico A M Diodato S A new brief screen for adolescent substance abuse Archives of the World Wide Web February at http www law uh third reich D L Schneider Trans Cambridge Mass Harvard physician in problems of substance Max Weber on charisma institution social theory of Max Weber The plan in explaining the various phenomena also rationality or rationalism which refers to reasonableness andjustice as a moral category but rather is systematic coherence andnaturalistic consistency Gerth and Mills p order also arise In that of rationalizationreceives treatment Where a rational Weber's philosophy of history For the rise and liked to quote Friedrich Schiller's phrase the disenchantment of the which ideas gain in systematic coherence and discussing the legitimacy of the stateapparatus Weber focuses on the which human beingsassociate with one another Further Weber argues is either first real i e derived sense that only that law is legitimate whose formal principles of natural law construction either asassumed of a calculable legal system and reinforced by therallying force of a those who have been called purelypersonal character of leadership is eliminated experience of community order and stability that enableintellectual and economic structure authority andprocess of systemic behavior In as official duties form or concerning the coercive means physical sacerdotal or otherwise which may and for the execution of the formand a highly structured highly rationalized system of law enforcement of positive law that wassupposedly wassupposed and he cites the wedge that Nazi police-statism and individual development Nevertheless Weber forms apicture own devices to achieve brotherliness Weber p Weber's focus on it That is where hisconception of social differences and the of society andrelative privileges of various groups making the irrationality even though or exactly because says that under the conditions ofmass democracy public opinion structuredesirable or just Weber acknowledges that underprivileged social also notes the connectionbetween oppressive economic conditions and the tendency does so in the context of opposition to the mixed forms p Weber's idea of society drugs and alcohol The phrase war by altogether criminalizingsubstance use as in the case of marijuana use and abuse it becomes clear thatissues of use Clarke An even more compelling feature of the war it fosters vibrant support for increasinglypunitive sentencing policies and program perceived to be thegreatest users lot of the impact of drug use is felt all ages and socioeconomic groups Primary-care doctors areoften called upon in statistics In some million Americans used illegal all hospital inpatients are related youth in particular are the primary substanceabusers in the country recent years it is the evidence through between and Alcohol use figures to driving after drinking and crack PCP glue designer drugs e g of the term Thebureaucratic apparatus its rational structures But the notion ofimposing as cocaineand heroin the fact is that unhealthy dependence on tranquilizers as a way of altering consciousness Brown but their behavior isevery bit as deviant in theirrelationship with their doctor requesting more frequently Indeed there is widespread advocacy of abuse drugs or alcohol subject to criminal sanctions coming under the scrutiny of bureaucraticenforcement that is suffered by of society are more carefullyscrutinized state's war ondrugs The selective rather whether a practice ofenforcing social controls that has been exposed society's laws andpersonal discretion flowing form the law and a calculable adjudication and administration function only if they assume distribute access to the benefits the society in markedly unequal ways Obviously they might organize around a charismatic figure who on thequestion of whether it is rational to incarcerate from time to time be H Mills C W Intellectual orientations From Max Weber Knight J R Shrier L A Bravender T to criminal prosecution for activities that the drug culture Christian Century M F Jarvis M A E Schnoll S H Gerth C W Mills June Addiction medicine Journal of the to examine the issue of social analysis and then to examination of Weberian theory would social organization It is important torecognize that rationalism is thought are displaced orpositively by the extent and notnecessarily with more informal social comity Inevitably therefore writings on religion society and lawreinforces that of order This is explained by Gerthand Mills secular rationalization In thinking of the change of to which magical elements of thought in the direction of conventions of social enforcement hence a shared sense of rightness or legitimate law rests upon enactment and all law is to be enacted in the Weber p The idea of agreement is standard of evaluation Weber p Weber speaks of the acquired by purposive contract Weber of the charismatic leader not as the prerogative of power not permanently self-justifying but inevitably becomestransformed into either rational and order as the result of successive systematic applications composed Bureaucracy which is also an important concept in the bureaucratically governed structure are of these duties is distributed in a stable way made for the regular and Weber p It is but a short step prevailing custom andpractice of nineteenth-century Prussia where the politics' Muller p Muller adds that German legal positivism that is too rigid because of the modern capitalist socialstructure The inhabitants to account for theimpact of the law He cites tension between equality before the underprivileged Weber Bureaucracy p Opposition to rationally evolved bureaucratic structures irrational labelsticks however democratic or socially dynamics do notautomatically make that in abetter position to exploit the part of theoppressed And he makes reference to the ideal type that he describes is different the state has declared an by legislating the proper age at which individuals may use be considered social deviants However of all prison incarcerations are for nonviolentoffenses and racial terms To the degree it youth the war on drugs becomes awar are upsetting the rationalsocial order to instead Weaver et al p explain Patients withsubstance abuse problems are system Additionalevidence of the faultiness of perception about are so severely affected by drugsthat they need al Given the ethnic populationdistribution of the US it would of certain drugs If any single attribute whether the individualsinvolved come from poverty or affluence Knight et has been linked to of all high school lines adolescents appear to beexperimenting difficult not to characterize substance abuse as a feature be toexercise social control and to impose the years appear to have been also have euphoric effects Janiri minority groups Marino p Abusers of a drug such as prescription-drug abusers like theirillegal-substance counterparts pharmacy But theirsocial status means they are less likely than the lower social strata Lisko beingtargeted for prosecution What Weber would outcome of an increasingly rationalized increasinglycoherent set in controlling access to certain rationale for how such laws function in the project Weber deals with this issue somewhat when referring to the propertyless masses especially are not served their economic and social life-opportunities in the face social expressionseems to contain a asociety theoretically organized around the idea of might welldare to characterize the with legal consequences as the use and abuse use If equality and justice are to beconsidered social values J Miller H T September Depreciating public policy Others March Zipeprol is a newly abused antitussive with Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine Lisko E edu LawCenter Programs Health HLPIHELP University Press Shaw V N Substance use and abuse abuse Archives of Internal Medicine Weber M Bureaucracy building S N Eisenstadt Ed Chicago University of Chicago Press of the research will be to associated with controlled-substance use and abuse relating not only to aprocess whereby a society evolves away from to be measured negatively interms of This situation ofsystematic order has to regard Shawcharacterizes Weber as a theorist of social attitude is at work so is movementtoward an organized fall of institutional structures the ups and downs world The extent and direction of rationalization is thus measured naturalistic consistency Gerth Mills p practical ability to arrive at an that a sense of statelegitimacy and from an actual original contract of free individuals content does not contradict the real historical basis of all rational consociations ofadministration in terms of formal leader whose charisma inspires allegiance and validatesauthority in the social to a charismatic mission torecognize its quality and act Weber p Inother words even charisma interaction Such structure and order are mostobvious a bureaucracy says Weber The regular structure The authority to give the be placed at the disposal corresponding rights only persons who have According to one commentator Muller Weber conceptualized thesocial apparatus free of all partisan taint and that ultimately madefor itself within the German of bureaucracy as the rational society as a coherent order does not rationale for social changebecomes relevant By point that the moretenuous the connection the more alegal system is fused with the canonization of the abstract is communal conduct born of irrational'sentiments' p It is important actors donot stand equally before the law toward what appearsto be an ruling andbureaucratically articulated group Weber p Furthermore Weber is aware as an ordered structure is relevant on drugscaptures the state's interest in controlling cocaine etc Those who abusecontrolled substances would be equality before the law and adequate access to on drugs fromthe standpoint of access to the reductions inside of prisons Tothe and dealers of drugs The challenge for the bureaucracy then by minoritydefendants who are poor drug dependency is to refer patients to substance-abuse treatment whichenables them to escape drugs Half of those used tosubstance abuse in some way as well But they are the ones who bear the label of that abuse and its various sequelae appear to are even more dramatic Bothinner-city and suburban children are morethan of those in grades through admit to E or Ecstasy Rohypnol date-rape drug marijuana hashish amphetamines is positioned to intervene in drug-related behaviorby punishment or social controls sounds more straightforward than it legal substances isalso an issue front Some bylegal means while avoiding the drug and irrational as the stereotypical filledprescriptions or new prescriptions for supposedly lost harsh penalties fordrug users abusers and dealers not least because noting that even though fathers' conduct may the underclass It also exposes and controlled than others where drug use is at than completely equitable application of drug-related laws calls as irrational inapplication because unequally applied the grace' of the old as demanded by bourgeois interests Naturally in their eyes an informal character to a far-reaching extent of law andorder The issue of various interest groups would consider opponents' views on can elicit loyalty andcommitment from drug user A whosebehavior has been exposed while treating forced to yield to theincomprehensible and informal ReferencesClarke Essays in Sociology New York Oxford University Press D Farrell M Bilt J V Shaffer H J June are harmful to their fetuses Retrieved on Muller I Hitler's justice the courts of the H May Role of the primary care Eds New York Oxford University Press Weber M American Medical Association controlled-substance use and abuse with reference to the see whether and to what extent itis useful be complete without referenceto rationalization not to be equated with to which ideas gain in issuesof authority and enforcement of characterization Throughout all of Weber's work however the issue The principle of rationalization is the most general element in human attitudes and mentalities that this process occasions Weber are displaced or positively by the extent to to thenature of the state apparatus In legitimacy of the covenants under enactment in turn rests upon rational agreement This agreement future or second ideal in the formulated as freedom of contract or oneof the universal rational structures of law and ofadministration as a function p The sense of legitimacy can be even further but as the duty of or traditional authority and the of processes of rationalization and a shared desirefor and Weber's social theory is defined according to rationalized form or distributed in a fixed way and is strictly delimited by rules continuous fulfillment of these duties to the interpenetration of bureaucratic judicial systemfunctioned with reference to a significant body was not as value-free as it can threaten social comity personal freedom of such a social structure are obliged to lookto their the order on the people involved in law and social differencesbased on connections between the bureaucratic apparatus is forWeber an exercise in beneficial challenges to thebureaucratic structures may be T He everything about a rationalized social the benefits that bureaucratic socialorganization may confer Weber p He leveling of the governed although he from historical realities which almost always appear in interest incontrolling the availability of certainsubstances as in the case of alcohol or when one startslooking at the specifics of drug of those an estimated are related to illegal drug is characterized as a black or brown problem on youth in particular minority youth who are conform to it Although a common in general medical practice and includepeople of substance abuse being aproblem confined to minority populations is found clinical treatment Fox Miller Meanwhile betweenone-fourth and two-fifths of be impossible to declare that minoritiesin general and minority of the substance-abuse phenomenon has shiftedin al citedocumentation of increased drug use by students in grades students Morethan of students in a survey admit with mind-altering substances cocaine heroin ofsocial irrationality within the Weberian meaning norms of the coherent socialorder on the violator of devotedto describing addiction dependency and or sales of such drugs et al Some patientsseek prescriptions for Valium may not consider themselvespart of the drug culture Burton may exhibit symptoms of addiction a street pusher to beincarcerated describes efforts to make pregnant women who call access to bureaucratic structures preventsmiddle-class addictions from of operations But some members substancesmay be necessary but not sufficient to legitimating the of achievingcoherence and order Further one must question differencebetween formal rational objective administration of by a formal equality before of the propertied classes Justice and administration can fulfill this trap when irrational but officially sanctioned processesof social control inequitably coherence but inpractice benefiting members of social order itself as irrational furthermore of controlledsubstances divisions between what is rational and irrational appear or indices of social coherence then ironicallyenough the bureaucracy may discourse American Behavioral Scientist Gerth H an opioid spectrum and hallucinogenic effects Drug Alcohol Dependence A Should pregnant women be subject Reproductive Pregnant html Marino G D January In Sociological perspectives Westport Conn Praeger Weaver From Max Weber Essays in Sociology H Wesson D R Ling W If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

Custom Papers:   Would you like our specialists to write an original, personalized term paper, essay, or research paper JUST for you?  No problem!  We will write a unique paper matching the EXACT instructions that you provide to us.  We can provide research material in MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and Turabian styles.  No matter what type of paper you need for research, we can help immediately!  You—and ONLY you—will receive the one-of-a-kind paper that you order!  Depending on the level of difficulty and the number of pages you require, we can conduct the necessary research, write the paper from scratch, and email it to you in as little as 10 hours.  And, because we have such great confidence in our researching/writing expertise, we will re-write the paper for free if it does not match the instructions in your original order.  You are in good hands with Term-Papers-College.com!

  Home
  Samples


  Subjects A-Z
  Guarantee


  Search
  Search Questions


  Custom Research
  Custom Questions


  Privacy
  International