Social conditions shape health and health disparities. However, inquiry and intervention in the social determinants of health all too often rests on thin engagement with customary demographic correlates and predictors rather than robust, empirically and theoretically informed engagement with health and health disparity as biocultural phenomena—the integrated product of structure, materiality, and subjectivity. Within‐group variability is neglected. Lived experiences of nonnormative status in multiple, mutually informing cultural systems are undertheorized. This article reports on research addressing these gaps—a study exploring experiences of body/self discontinuity and physical‐activity engagement among African American adolescent girls. Data suggest that experiences of body/self discontinuity, or unembodiment, are common to membership in multiple, nonnormative social categories, vary in degree and quality, and may bear on disposition toward leisure‐time physical activity. Unembodiment shows promise as a means of characterizing variability in physical‐activity engagement within groups evincing low levels of this health behavior.

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未实现的生活：非洲裔美国少女中的身体状况和身体/自我不连续

社会状况影响着健康和健康差异。但是，对健康的社会决定因素的探究和干预往往取决于与习惯的人口统计相关因素和预测因素的较弱接触，而不是将健康和健康差异作为生物文化现象（结构，物质，和主观性。组内变异性被忽略。在多种相互影响的文化体系中，非规范地位的生活经验得到了理论化。本文针对解决这些差距的研究进行了报道，该研究探索了非洲裔美国少女中身体/自我不连续和体育活动参与的经历。数据表明，身体/自我不连续或没有体现的经历，属于多个非规范性社会类别的成员，其程度和质量各不相同，并且可能会影响休闲时间的体育活动。非实施方案显示希望是表征低水平健康行为人群中体育活动参与变化的一种手段。