Health Lifestyle Theory

Abstract

Health lifestyles are defined as collective patterns of health‐related behavior based on choices from options available to people according to their life chances. Health lifestyle theory maintains that health lifestyles choices are not the unconnected random choices of individuals, but cluster in distinct patterns based on class, gender, and other structural variables. The theory, formulated by Cockerham in 2005 and based on the earlier work of Weber (1978) and Bourdieu (1984), emphasizes the manner in which structural variables, such as class circumstances, age, gender, and race/ethnicity, collectivities (social networks), and living conditions provide the social context for socialization and experience that ultimately determine lifestyle dispositions and practices.

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