Explaining the social gradient in smoking and cessation
The Peril and Promise of Social Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frances Thirlway (0000-0002-8882-544X, Department of Sociology Wentworth College University of York York UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 565-578 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13039 |
| PMID | 31769046 |
| OpenAlex | W2991277226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 95 |
Smoking in high-income countries is now concentrated in poor communities whose relatively high smoking prevalence is explained by greater uptake but above all by lower quit rates. Whilst a number of barriers to smoking cessation have been identified, this is the first paper to situate cessation itself as a classed and cultural practice. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out in a working-class community in the North of England between 2012 and 2015, I theorise smoking cessation as a symbolic practice in relation to the affective experience of class and social mobility. I show that ambivalence about upward mobility as separation and loss translated into ambivalence about smoking cessation. The reason for this was that the social gradient in smoking operated dynamically at the level of the individual life course, i.e. smoking cessation followed upward mobility. A serious health problem was an appropriate reason to quit but older women continued to smoke despite serious health problems. This was linked to historical gender roles leading to women placing a low priority on their own health as well as the intergenerational reproduction of smoking through close affective links with smoking parents
Ambivalence · Ethnography · Political science · Quit smoking · Smoking cessation · Social class · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Psychology · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Social Psychology
Intergenerational Social Mobility and Smoking Trajectories in Middle-Aged Adults – The French Constances Cohort Study (2012–2020)
Alcohol and Cigarette Use among Adolescents and Young Adults in Austria from 2004–2020
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain
Emotions and lung cancer screening
Imperatives of health or happiness
Understanding adolescent health risk behaviour and socioeconomic position
Ethnography and human development
Growing Up Girl
Learning to Labour
Women and tobacco
Socioeconomic disparities in quit intentions, quit attempts, and smoking abstinence among smokers in four western countries
Exposure to parental and sibling smoking and the risk of smoking uptake in childhood and adolescence
The social context of smoking
Socioeconomic status and smoking
Perceived barriers to smoking cessation in selected vulnerable groups
Four social theories for global health
The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network
Parental Smoking and Adolescent Smoking Initiation
Distinction
Learning to Labor
Family and Kinship in East London
The Location of Culture
Distinction
Formations of Class and Gender
The Moral Significance of Class
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
Changes in Smoking Behavior over Family Transitions
Sociodemographic differences in triggers to quit smoking
Dispelling myths about gender differences in smoking cessation
The case for OFSMOKE
Legislating abjection? Secondhand smoke, tobacco control policy and the public's health
The ‘considerate’ smoker in public space
Marriage, mortgage, motherhood
How will e-cigarettes affect health inequalities? Applying Bourdieu to smoking and cessation
The Triumph and Tragedy of Tobacco Control
The Contributions of Mothers and Fathers to the Intergenerational Transmission of Cigarette Smoking in Adolescence
Ethical Guidelines for Good Research Practice
Miseducation
Uneasy Hybrids
Sociospatial inequalities in health-related behaviours
They Don't Live in My House Every Day”
Working Class Matters
Living and working in urban working class communities
Wisdom and Influence of Elders
Moralising geographies
Miseducation
The Kinkeeping Connection
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
Why healthy eating is bad for young people's health
Imagining Personhood Differently
A case for critical ethnography
Smoking behaviours in a remote Australian Indigenous community
Everyday tactics in local moral worlds
Nicotine addiction as a moral problem
The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research
Young adults' experiences of neighbourhood smoking-related norms and practices
Understanding high-risk behavior among non-dominant minorities
The field of medical anthropology in Social Science & Medicine
Dietary inequalities of mother-child pairs in the rural Amazon
Eliciting the smoker's agenda
Segregation and Poverty Concentration
Going Away to Uni
Poverty and Place in Britain, 1968-99
Nomadic identities and socio-spatial competence
Getting Out and Getting Away
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility
Exchange, Value and Affect
Bourdieu, Smith and Disinterested Judgement
In Other Words
What are you Worth
"Can There Be a "Cultural Epidemiology
A Mixed Bag of Misfortunes
The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors
Bodies, mothers and identities
Anthropological Takes on (Im)Mobility
The Changing Availability of Grandparents as Carers and its Implications for Childcare Policy in the UK
Diffusion, cohort change, and social patterns of smoking
The social space and the genesis of groups
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |