An ethnographic study of health and wellbeing was undertaken in a deprived urban neighbourhood in the UK Midlands. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, capital and field, we discerned three different, even conflicting, ways of understanding and acting on health: (i) older adults discussed their wellbeing in relation to the local context or field, walking the dog, helping at the community centre and visiting the off licence, (ii) young professionals and students who lived in the neighbourhood were oriented towards leisure facilities, career opportunities and supermarkets outside of the neighbourhood, disdaining local facilities and (iii) community activists and carers discussed health in terms of providing for others but not themselves. Bourdieu is frequently used in medical sociology to highlight how poor people's lifestyle is constrained by their habitus; we suggest paying more attention to its both enabling and differentiating contradictions as well as the constraints it entails. Empirically and in terms of health promotion findings suggest that supposedly healthy activities, such as going to the gym, may also be a means of rejecting the local community; similarly, older people's pottering about in the neighbourhood, which is not usually recognised as a healthy activity, may enhance wellbeing in this context.

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城市贫困社区中健康和习惯的冲突体验：布迪厄人种学

在英国中部的一个贫困城市社区进行了一项关于健康和福祉的民族志研究。借鉴布迪厄的惯习、资本和场域概念，我们发现了三种不同甚至相互冲突的理解和对健康采取行动的方式：(i) 老年人讨论与当地环境或场域相关的福祉、遛狗、帮助社区中心和参观许可证，(ii) 住在附近的年轻专业人士和学生倾向于附近的休闲设施、职业机会和超市，蔑视当地设施，以及 (iii) 社区活动家和护理人员讨论健康为他人而不是自己提供条件的条款。布迪厄在医学社会学中经常被用来强调穷人如何 他们的生活方式受限于他们的习惯；我们建议更多地关注它的促成和差异化矛盾以及它带来的限制。从经验上和健康促进方面的研究结果表明，去健身房等所谓的健康活动也可能是拒绝当地社区的一种手段；同样，老年人在附近闲逛通常不被认为是一种健康的活动，但在这种情况下可能会提高幸福感。