Department of Sociology, and Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sociol Health Illn. 2021 Mar;43(3):750-763. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13251. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Food is one of the key themes in public health policy and debates over inequalities in health. In this article, we argue that more research is needed to understand how socioeconomic disadvantage is translated into low degrees of healthiness. We suggest that everyday life analysis may be sharpened by way of drawing upon a practice-theoretical perspective on the mundane processes involved in this translation. We base our suggestion on a small review of three strands in the literature on social inequality, food and health, namely public health research, lifestyle analysis and everyday life studies, and we take our analytical starting point in the latter. In the article, we argue that a practice-theoretical perspective may enable research in social disadvantage and healthiness of food that describes and interprets variants in the conditioned agency, which cuts cross the multiplicity of different practices that make-up people's daily lives. Finally, we suggest that a stronger focus on social interaction and social hierarchy would adapt a practice-theoretical perspective further to empirical analysis in the field of food, health and socioeconomic disadvantage.
食物是公共卫生政策和健康不平等问题辩论的核心主题之一。在本文中，我们认为需要更多的研究来了解社会经济劣势如何转化为健康程度较低的情况。我们建议，可以通过借鉴日常生活分析中涉及到这种转化的实践理论观点，来使日常生活分析更加敏锐。我们的建议基于对社会不平等、食物和健康文献中三个方面的简要回顾，即公共卫生研究、生活方式分析和日常生活研究，并以后者作为我们的分析起点。在本文中，我们认为，实践理论观点可以使社会劣势和食物健康方面的研究能够描述和解释条件作用下的行为变异，这种变异跨越了构成人们日常生活的多种不同实践。最后，我们建议进一步加强对社会互动和社会等级的关注，以使实践理论观点更适应食物、健康和社会经济劣势领域的实证分析。
