Hysteresis – or the mismatch of expectations and possibilities among relatives in a transforming health care system.

Roenn-Smidt, Helle; Shim, Janet K.; Larsen, Kristian; Hindhede, Anette Lykke

doi:10.1080/14461242.2019.1704425

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“…Amanda critically reflects on a clash – or as Roenn‐Smidt et al (2020) might describe it, a ‘hysteresis’ – between the middle‐class culinary values of donors and the habitus of residents, where the donors, in a somewhat disrespectful way (‘they can cook, can't they?’) seek to push the residents to eat healthy food, made from scratch (cooking with carrots and lentils) that is alien to their habits.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Here, people empower themselves in the field of health by demonstrating neoliberal ideas and dispositions consistent with mainstream health promotion, such as use of medical knowledge and vocabulary, self‐discipline and an enterprising stance towards health. Similarly, Roenn‐Smidt et al (2020) use Bourdieu's concept of hysteresis (a clash between habitus and a changing field) to illustrate how the habitus‐infused expectations of relatives of stroke sufferers of having their needs met clashed with the stripped‐down provision of the health‐care field in Denmark increasingly focused on self‐responsibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Conflicting experiences of health and habitus in a poor urban neighbourhood: A Bourdieusian ethnography

Scott-Arthur

Brown

Saukko

2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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An ethnographic study of health and wellbeing was undertaken in a deprived urban neighbourhood in the UK Midlands. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, capital and field, we discerned three different, even conflicting, ways of understanding and acting on health: (i) older adults discussed their wellbeing in relation to the local context or field, walking the dog, helping at the community centre and visiting the off licence, (ii) young professionals and students who lived in the neighbourhood were oriented towards leisure facilities, career opportunities and supermarkets outside of the neighbourhood, disdaining local facilities and (iii) community activists and carers discussed health in terms of providing for others but not themselves. Bourdieu is frequently used in medical sociology to highlight how poor people's lifestyle is constrained by their habitus; we suggest paying more attention to its both enabling and differentiating contradictions as well as the constraints it entails. Empirically and in terms of health promotion findings suggest that supposedly healthy activities, such as going to the gym, may also be a means of rejecting the local community; similarly, older people's pottering about in the neighbourhood, which is not usually recognised as a healthy activity, may enhance wellbeing in this context.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Conflicting experiences of health and habitus in a poor urban neighbourhood: A Bourdieusian ethnography

Scott-Arthur

Brown

Saukko

2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…A poorly matched habitus among family members or relatives responsible for the patient (the so-called significant others) leads to the loss of therapeutic and caring opportunities in relation to the possibilities objectively offered by medical field institutions. Examples of habitus hysteresis have been observed in studies on patients with serious brain injuries (33). Subjective expectations of people closest to the patient (e.g.…”

Section: "Praxis" and Medical Field Researchmentioning

confidence: 97%

Selected aspect of Pierre Bourdieu’s “Praxis” in the area of decision-making about therapy and medical care

Choińska

Maślach

2022

Przegl Epidemiol

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In the era of increasingly developing medical services, decision-making about therapy and care is conditioned not only by medical and psychological factors, but also by increasingly institutional and social factors. Which of the factors of the social environment and medical institutions play the greatest role in the process of deciding on therapy and medical care? In seeking answers to the questions posed, reference was made to the theory of “praxis” by P. Bourdieu. These theoretical concepts: habitus, capital field, have been presented in such a way that it is possible to see their impact on the decisions of patients and medical staff and to take into account the dependencies and mutual influences between them. The article refers to Polish and English-language literature. Research results and theoretical conclusions on the impact of social factors and the direct institutional environment on the decision formation of various entities involved in the decision-making process have been presented.

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“…Bourdieu (1977Bourdieu ( , 1990Bourdieu ( , 1991Bourdieu ( , 2000 refers to this phenomena as the hysteresis effect. Whilst limited in their number, several studies (Barrett 2018;Cant 2018;Kirschner and Lachicotte 2001;Roenn-Smidt et al 2020) have used this concept in relation to health. Cant's (2018) study, for instance, draws on Bourdieu's work to explore the role of hysteresis in generating the rising prevalence of mental health disorder in undergraduates.…”

Section: Habitus Embodiment Physical Capital and Hysteresismentioning

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“…Hysteresis has perhaps been under-utilised in the social sciences (Strand and Lizardo 2017). The few empirical applications include studies that have used the concept to make sense of social mobility (Friedman 2016), experiences of migration (Domaneschi 2018;Nowicka 2015), spinal cord injury (Barrett 2018), healthcare professionals' experiences of changing health care management (Kirschner and Lachicotte 2001, p. 454), and family care responsibilities in stroke rehabilitation in a transforming field of healthcare (Roenn-Smidt et al 2020): these studies attest to the usefulness of the concept to reveal otherwise hidden tensions in fields. Cant (2018) further argues that hysteresis provides a way to bridge the social structural and psychological levels-in her example, the links between social class and mental health.…”

Section: Habitus Embodiment Physical Capital and Hysteresismentioning

confidence: 99%

Unruly bodies: resistance, (in)action and hysteresis in a public health intervention

2020

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Schools have long been sites of public health intervention on the bodies of children. Increasingly, these interventions also act on the bodies of educators. Our case study is an intervention focused on the future health of children's bodies ('The Daily Mile'), which, we argue, also resulted in the surveillance of educators' bodies. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of hysteresis to explore how those bodies can become 'unruly' during implementation, in both resisting and being positioned as reluctant. Hysteresis, an under-utilised Bourdieusian concept, proved useful for exploring embodiment at a point when there were mismatches between habitus and the changing field of primary education. We show how the non-participation of some actors (e.g. teachers) was positioned as part of a broader resistance to health as a dominant value, whereas non-participation of less-privileged social actors (e.g. Teaching Assistants) was problematised in different ways. We argue that attending to moments of hysteresis, in which the changing symbolic values of physical capital become explicit, surfaces not just how dominant discourses (e.g. healthism) become reproduced in fields, but also how they change and are resisted, and with what effects.

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Hysteresis – or the mismatch of expectations and possibilities among relatives in a transforming health care system.

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Conflicting experiences of health and habitus in a poor urban neighbourhood: A Bourdieusian ethnography

Conflicting experiences of health and habitus in a poor urban neighbourhood: A Bourdieusian ethnography

Selected aspect of Pierre Bourdieu’s “Praxis” in the area of decision-making about therapy and medical care

Unruly bodies: resistance, (in)action and hysteresis in a public health intervention

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