'Breaking the cycle' - Constructing intergenerational explanations for disadvantage
'Breaking the cycle' - Constructing intergenerational explanations for disadvantage
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DOI：
10.1177/1359105308093859
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Stephens, Christine
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作者：
Breheny, Mary;Stephens, Christine
代际解释被广泛用于解释不良的健康和社会后果，例如与十几岁的母亲有关的结果。在这些解释中，医学期刊代表了形成对不利条件的理解的权威声音。在这本医学文献中，十几岁的母亲的身份被比喻为“不利的循环”。劣势被构建为不良的个人选择或家庭偏差的结果，并突出了个人和家庭在传递劣势中的作用。因此，关于健康干预的建议侧重于识别越轨的个人和家庭，而不是解决不利的社会背景的方法。
Intergenerational explanations are widely available to account for poor health and social outcomes such as those associated with teenage motherhood. Within these explanations, medical journals represent authoritative voices that shape understandings of disadvantage. Teenage motherhood was understood through the metaphor of a ` cycle of disadvantage' within this medical literature. Disadvantage is constructed as the result of poor individual choice or family deviance, and the role of the individual and the family in transmitting disadvantage is highlighted. Suggestions for health interventions consequently focus on identifying deviant individuals and families, rather than on ways to address the social context of disadvantage.