Field Study At Alcoholics Anonymous Essay -- Research Alcoholism Drink

Field Study At Alcoholics Anonymous On Wednesday March 15 and 22 I accompanied meetings of the Serentiy Group, a localmeeting group of Alcoholics Anonymous that were held at the congregationalChurch in East Bridgewater. The meetings started around 800 pm and went until apiece member was given the opportunity to speak, or to share their feelings in roughway. There was a total of 15 people present, including myself and my lad. The group was earlier made up of males, there was one young-bearing(prenominal) aside from mycompanion and I. The age of the group members was pretty much middle age (late30s to 50s). in the first place attending the meeting I was genuinely apprehensive about going, for morereasons. The main one was that I did not get laid what to expect. I was unsettled ofwho was going to be there, if I would know eitherone, or if anyone would know me. Ifelt as though I was going to be trespassing(a) the privacy of those in attendance. Uponarrival at I felt very extre mely uncomfortable for two reasons, the obvious agedifference, and the male to female ratio. The uneasiness passed quickly as themembers of the group welcomed us in, and made us feel as if we were a government agency of thegroup. I think that part of my initial nervousness was due to the fact that I did notknow what to expect, I was unsure as to what a drunk would look like. in one case Iarrived I realized that they do not look any different than anyone else. My initial impression was that the meeting would be very depressing, a ...