Ethanol /ËÉÎ¸ÉnÉl/ , also commonly called ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol is the principal type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, produced by the fermentation of sugars by yeasts.It is a neurotoxic psychoactive drug and one of the oldest recreational drugs used by humans.thanol is the systematic name defined by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for a molecule with two carbon atoms (prefix eth-), having a single bond between them (suffix -ane), and an attached functional group-OH group (suffix -ol).
habitus. The physical or constitutional characteristics of a person: build, constitution, habit, physique.
The habitus can be seen as counterpoint to the notions of rationality that are prevalent within other disciplines of social science research, as it relativizes the notion of an actor's 'best interest' through attention to the cultural definition of 'best'.