Abstract

TINOCO, Rui. An autobiographical research report: the use of drugs as a moral dilemma. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2007, n.53, pp.159-178. ISSN 0873-6529.

This work tries to summarize some of the main findings of a research that we conduct between the years of 2001 and 2004. The research pretends to articulate a biographic approach, that allow to see the deviant act as something that develop during a life history; and the neutralization techniques that allow a detailed analysis of which moment. In this way we can detect the main neutralizations (and neutralizations are specific of deviant rationalizations) more important in every moment of the life histories recollected of heroin consumers.

Keywords : life histories; neutralization techniques; qualitative methods.

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