Substance Use And Symbolic Interactionism

The meanings that people apply to certain things, actions, or behaviours is inconsistent across the population of a society. Therefore, it is safe to assume that individual opinions of substance use will vary across the population of a society. Substance use can have very different meanings for different people. The people participating in substance use will have significantly different views about it than people who see others participating in substance use. What one individual might consider abusing a substance, another may see it as just recreational use. Symbolic Interactionism assumes that not only are individuals influenced in their behaviour at the macro-level, but also at the meso-level where individuals can negotiate the meanings behind