Sociology of Food Research Group, Department of Human Nutrition, LIFE Faculty, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 30, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Appetite. 2010 Oct;55(2):311-8. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.07.001. Epub 2010 Jul 8.
To deepen our understanding of the relationship between social class and obesity, the study compares the ways in which conceptions of health and personal body weight are enmeshed in the everyday lives of people with disparate socio-cultural backgrounds and weight status. We ask how perceptions and enactments of health and personal body weight are related to social structures and practices at work, in spare time, and in family life. Qualitative interviews focusing on life history and current everyday life were conducted with two groups of Danish adults. One group contained highly educated people of normal weight. The other contained people with less education and body weights above the obesity threshold. Recommended healthy lifestyle regimes complied more fully with the established practices and internalized ideas of those in the normal weight highly educated group than they did with the practices and ideas of those in the high-BMI less educated group. Work environments, and also conditions connected with work that were carried over into spare time and family life, further promoted the integration of healthy lifestyles into the everyday practices of the highly educated, normal weight group. In the less educated, high-BMI group this kind of integration occurred less.
为了更深入地了解社会阶层与肥胖之间的关系，本研究比较了具有不同社会文化背景和体重状况的人群在日常生活中是如何将健康观念和个人体重观念交织在一起的。我们探讨了健康和个人体重的认知和表现与工作、业余时间和家庭生活中的社会结构和实践之间是如何相互关联的。我们对两组丹麦成年人进行了以生活史和当前日常生活为重点的定性访谈。一组是受教育程度较高、体重正常的人。另一组是受教育程度较低、体重超过肥胖标准的人。推荐的健康生活方式模式与体重正常、受教育程度较高的群体的既定实践和内化观念更为契合，而与体重较高、受教育程度较低的群体的实践和观念则不太契合。工作环境，以及与工作相关的条件，会延续到业余时间和家庭生活中，这进一步促进了健康生活方式融入受教育程度较高、体重正常的群体的日常生活实践。在受教育程度较低、体重较高的群体中，这种融合程度较低。
