Bandura’s basic category of a person’s characteristics is the human agency. It’s a state of our being capable representatives of our own persons. It means, like any successful agent we shall be efficient to act for our own maximum benefit. That’s the root of another Albert Bandura’s basic category -- self-efficacy. Although it isn’t the best analogy, but if we view a person as an agency, we’re always at work doing some job responsibilities to benefit ourselves. Then come the questions of when and how we shall use the benefit we gain and what we are. However, these questions are outside the theory we’re talking about. One of the tasks of psychology, as a craft, is to give a person a more effective strategy for interaction with the world around him or her. In this context, they can easily interpret alcoholism as a phenomenon decreasing an agent’s efficiency. That drives us back to our previous talk about long-term and short-term aims and to the scientific justification of such evident fact that alcohol addiction is an obstacle rather than help in the complex way life. Thus, the psychology treats the society as a constant, not a variable. In other words, it’s a strictly standardized structure with an averaged character. A person is an abstract unit with the typological description of its norms and abnormalities from the position of a psychological theory. Unlike philosophy or fiction books, the addiction is hereby viewed as evident with a rigid definition. For example, we can’t find such a psychological theory that considers the charm of the alcohol as a useful feature. On the contrary, it’s psychology is a basic sphere of knowledge for the addictology practice that offers most of alcoholism overcoming techniques.

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