>From carrigan@rastro.Colorado.EDU Tue Jun 28 17:35:30 1994 Return-Path: carrigan@rastro.Colorado.EDU Received: from rastro.Colorado.EDU (rastro.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.21]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA02986 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 1994 17:35:29 -0600 Received: (from carrigan@localhost) by rastro.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) id RAA42368; Tue, 28 Jun 1994 17:35:30 -0600 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 17:35:29 -0600 (MDT) From: CARRIGAN JACQUELINE ANN Sender: CARRIGAN JACQUELINE ANN Reply-To: CARRIGAN JACQUELINE ANN Subject: RE: introduction To: ppn@csf.colorado.edu In-Reply-To: <56132.ieberstn@coss.fsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Tue, 28 Jun 1994, Isaac W. Eberstein wrote: > Also, it is true that lifestyle factors (like smoking, etc) are > mortality risks; to deny/ ignore that fact would relegate sociological > analysis to irrelevance. The question is how to integrate structure and > lifestyle in a manner consistent with both sociological and public health > realities. > I recognize that smoking, drinking, diet, exercise, etc. can affect health and mortality, and that there is some measure of individual choice involved in these activities. However, I am interested in understanding why it is that people in certain groups tend to choose similarly. To me this indicates a possible structural influence. People of lower social class tend to engage in more health risky behaviors, and I would like to come to a better understanding of why that is. Jackie Carrigan