Social space, social class and Bourdieu: Health inequalities in British Columbia, Canada

Cigarettes, snus and status: differences in lifestyle of different tobacco user groups in Norway

“…The point of placing tobacco practices within a national social space is to analyse the distances between the various collective lifestyle contexts that tobacco use is included in, and simulaneously illustrate health inequalities (Veenstra, 2007). By connecting the analysis of lifestyle with social position, it becomes possible to illuminate power relations associated with the social topography of tobacco consumption, and to illustrate how tobacco use at the same time can be related to both marginalization and normality, based on the various user groups' position in the social space.…”

Classe social: conceitos e esquemas operacionais em pesquisa em saude

“…Relations between classes and health outcomes are mediated by complex mechanisms of differential exposure to stressors, control and autonomy in labor processes, participation in wealth distribution, consumption patterns, behaviors, symbolic elaborations, and other social processes present in everyday life. 23,24 In the public health literature, three main approaches to the social class concept have been observed: stratifi cation according to economic or social variables, social class according to the Marxist approach, or social class according to the conception of Bourdieu. 3 In social epidemiology studies, the use of social stratifi cation is more frequent, wherein the socioeconomic position is indicated by several variables without any explicit reference to the theoretical model or the sociological school of thought.…”

Social inequality, lifestyles and health – a non-linear canonical correlation analysis based on the approach of Pierre Bourdieu

“…8 Bourdieu's capital and lifestyle theory has already been adopted by other authors to examine inequalities in health. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] However, only few analyses of health-related differences refer to Bourdieu's methodological and empirical work as described in his basic publication "Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste". 7 Approaches were made by Gatrell et al, Lengen and Blasiusand Veenstra.…”

“…7 Approaches were made by Gatrell et al, Lengen and Blasiusand Veenstra. [16][17][18][19] Using multiple correspondence analysis, Veenstra identified health effects of social class in a Canadian province. Indicators of physical and mental health were situated in a social space defined by economic and cultural capital as well as social relations, personal history and family structure.…”