Social class differences in the accounts of smoking - striving for distinction?
Social class differences in the accounts of smoking - striving for distinction?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01267.x
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Katainen, Anu
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作者：
Katainen, Anu
大多数西方国家吸烟流行的主要趋势是其与较低的社会经济地位的关联性越来越大，这使其成为健康不平等背后的一个主要因素。本文重点探讨吸烟背后的原因，以及吸烟对中产阶级和工人阶级吸烟者的社会意义。该数据由 55 名来自不同职业背景的日常吸烟者、戒烟者和偶尔吸烟者的半结构化访谈组成。分析显示，与受访者的职业背景相关，吸烟的解释方式存在相当大的差异。与预期相反，非体力劳动者倾向于认为吸烟是功能性的、令人愉悦的和可控的，而体力劳动者的情况恰恰相反。尽管该群体吸烟率很高，但他们最不愿意为自己的行为辩护或合理化，而中产阶级吸烟者的议程可以解释为中产阶级习惯与危险的工人阶级习惯的调和。
The dominant trend in smoking prevalence in most Western countries is its increasing association with lower socioeconomic positions, making it a major factor behind inequalities in health. This paper focuses on the reasoning behind smoking, as well as on its social significance among middle-class and working-class smokers. The data consist of 55 semi-structured interviews with daily smokers, ex-smokers and occasional smokers from different occupational backgrounds. The analysis revealed considerable differences in the ways of accounting for smoking, relating to the respondents' occupational backgrounds. Contrary to expectations, non-manual workers tended to consider their smoking functional, pleasurable and controlled, whereas the opposite was the case with the manual workers. Despite the high prevalence of smoking in that group, they were least willing to justify or rationalise their behaviour, whereas the agenda of middle-class smokers could be interpreted as the reconciliation of middle-class habitus with a risky, working-class habit.