Health Lifestyles and the Reproduction of Inequality

健康在我们对社会不平等的理解中发挥着越来越重要的作用。研究人员和政策制定者认识到，健康行为往往难以改变。为了了解这个问题，一些人开始关注健康生活方式。这些被定义为一组相互关联的健康行为，植根于与对健康，责任和风险的理解有关的社会身份，由知识和资源塑造，并对健康和其他生活结果产生重要影响。这种生活方式的方法承认，健康行为不会发生在真空中;相反，它们共同发生在集合中并相互影响。这些健康行为源于根深蒂固的身份认同，如果他们自己不改变，可能会破坏改变行为的努力。研究集中在三个主要的未回答的问题：（1）孩子从父母那里得到了什么样的健康生活方式？(2)那些接受的健康生活方式如何在生命早期演变成实现健康的生活方式？(3)青年人的健康生活方式对他们的发展和健康有什么影响？结合定性和定量的方法，这个项目桥梁不同的“面孔”的社会学社会心理学在考虑行为和身份和社会规范，结构和相互作用，塑造他们。除了健康生活方式之外，该项目还借鉴并促进了社会学理论的几个领域：不平等现象的代际再现、儿童和青年的身份发展、社会化的相互过程、文化健康资本和生命历程理论观点。定量分析使用三个纵向调查，涵盖不同阶段的早期生活课程：早期儿童纵向研究的出生和幼儿园队列，和添加健康调查。该项目还收集原始的定性数据，观察家庭互动和采访家长，补充家长焦点小组和学校人员的采访。除了学术，学术和公共传播的研究结果，这项研究有可能造福社会。了解儿童和青少年健康行为和相关身份发展的流行模式对于最终改善他们的发展，健康和福祉非常重要。了解他们的健康生活方式可能有助于减少他们生活结果的不平等。学生培训和学习是该项目的一个组成部分，研究助理大量参与数据收集，分析和传播的结果。该项目将被纳入主要研究者的本科和研究生教学，研究结果将在研究生研讨会上发表。

Health is playing an increasing role in our understandings of social inequality. Researchers and policy makers recognize that health behaviors are often resistant to change. Seeking to understand this problem, some have begun focusing on health lifestyles. These are defined as groups of interrelated health behaviors, rooted in social identities related to understandings of health, responsibility, and risk, that are shaped by knowledge and resources and that have important consequences for health and other life outcomes. This lifestyle approach acknowledges that health behaviors do not happen in a vacuum; rather, they co-occur in sets and influence one another. These sets of health behaviors arise from deeply rooted identities that, if they do not themselves change, can undermine efforts to alter behaviors. The research focuses on three major unanswered questions: (1) What received health lifestyles do children get from their parents? (2) How do those received health lifestyles evolve into achieved health lifestyles across early life? (3) What are the implications of young people's health lifestyles for their development and health? Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, this project bridges different "faces" of sociological social psychology in considering both behaviors and identities and the social norms, structures, and interactions that shape them. The project draws from and contributes to several areas of sociological theory besides health lifestyles: the intergenerational reproduction of inequalities, identity development in children and youth, the reciprocal process of socialization, cultural health capital, and the life course theoretical perspective. Quantitative analyses use three longitudinal surveys that cover different phases of the early life course: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study's Birth and Kindergarten Cohorts, and the Add Health survey. The project also collects original qualitative data observing family interactions and interviewing parents, with supplemental parent focus groups and school personnel interviews. In addition to scholarly, academic, and public dissemination of findings, this research has the potential to benefit society. Understanding prevalent patterns of health behaviors and associated identity development among children and youth is important for ultimately improving their development, health, and well-being. Understanding their health lifestyles may help reduce inequalities in their life outcomes. Student training and learning is an integral part of the project, with research assistants heavily involved in data collection, analysis, and dissemination of findings. The project will be integrated into the principal investigator's undergraduate and graduate teaching, and findings will be presented in a graduate student workshop.