Environmental Causes Of Teenage Drinking

Issue
Mills define issues as matters that go beyond the local environment of the individual and their inner life; Issues are a public matter. In newspapers report we often address issues, example of this are reports based on teenage drinking and the threat this poses to the society.
Teenage drinking, as stated before is an issue. For the reason that it is not one teen trouble is a nationwide issue, therefore there must exist social causes. Why do some teenagers indulged in drinking and why? The cause of it may have environmental roots. The topic of family and close friends was already discuss in the section of troubles. Nevertheless, there exist other environmental roots such as the impact of the media. Today alcohol is widely available and

aggressively promoted through any kind of media. This is an environmental issue, as teenagers who found alcohol ads necessary were more likely to outlook drinking positively and would be induced to drinking. An issue would be that nowadays every socially accepted activity involves alcohol drinking; this would lead to an increase in teenage drinking because those teens that wants to become as adult sooner would see drinking alcohol as an option, probably leading to alcoholism dependence.
Micro and Macro Level
Mills defines de micro level as a paradigm that focuses on social interaction in specific situations and macro level as a paradigm that focuses on broad social structures that characterize society as a whole. Inside, the issues and troubles addressed in this paper, some are categorized macro or micro level.
From a macro functionalist perspective which emphasize on social order and stability. We can observe how teenage alcoholism could be cause for pressure on social order issues, as being of a lower social order so you indulge in drinking to fit it the rich teen’s group. Furthermore, stability issues could have the same effect on teens and adults; when stability is in the game the sensation of losing everything, would lead to get involved with the ingestion of alcoholic beverages.

In the same macro level, we observe conflict perspective in which it emphasizes social tension, competition and change. When a teenager is taken away from his social environment, it suffer from tension, competition and change. This causes a teenager in some circumstances to binge drinking and later on become an alcoholic. On the other hand, in a micro level we observe symbolic interactionism, which explain people interactions and influences between themselves. Teenage alcoholism fits this category because in occasions is a result of influences of friends.