Welcome Introduction

Welcome to our Blog!!
Just so you know, we are first year MSW students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Kitchener. A significant portion of our learning involves an analysis of social policy. We created this blog to discover the issues and or concerns around the sale of alcohol to youth. In this blog we hope to examine a brief history of the issue, ideologies that support these policies; penalties or punishment for sellers to underage youths; policies for adults in protecting youths from buying underage; the impact of sale policy for immigrants or people who are new to the policy; policies on sale in different communities, and polices on marketing to youths to name a few. We hope that others will join us in our discussions to create a rich, diverse analysis of the issues that surround this social policy.

We would like to note that we feel our approach to this issue is through an anti-oppressive lens. We are focusing on the ways in which means of oppression such as ageism and racism have contributed to the creation and maintenance of this policy. It is also important to note that we believe that we come from a post-modernist standpoint in that we choose to question and investigate the constructions that underlie the legal drinking age for youth.