Becoming a 'real' smoker: Cultural capital in young women's accounts of smoking and other substance use

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-80

  Haines, Rebecca J ^a   Poland, Blake D ^b   Johnson, Joy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Bourdieu; Cultural capital; Substance use; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ONTARIO; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849146301     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01119.x     Document Type: Article

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