caa a22 4500 39754796X CHVBK 20180308164743.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199606 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapro/11.2.157 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapro/11.2.157 Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research [Elektronische Daten] [JOAN EAKIN, ANN ROBERTSON, BLAKE POLAND, DAVID COBURN, RICHARD EDWARDS] As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a ‘critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of ‘reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly outlines key features of a CSSP and models its application to health promotion research by examining why and how smoking among young girls has emerged as a research issue. We illustrate how the ‘problem' of young girls smoking has been construed in terms of epidemiological evidence, scientific imperative, flawed strategy, feasibility, symbolic appeal, vested interests and resistance. A CSSP reveals the socio-political construction of research problems. The paper reflects on the implications of adopting such a stance to research. © Oxford University Press Debate nationallicence critical social science perspective nationallicence health promotion nationallicence research nationallicence EAKIN JOAN Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut ROBERTSON ANN Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut POLAND BLAKE Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut COBURN DAVID Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut EDWARDS RICHARD Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/2(1996-06), 157-165 0957-4824 11:2<157 1996 11 heapro https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.2.157 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.2.157 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- EAKIN JOAN Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- ROBERTSON ANN Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- POLAND BLAKE Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- COBURN DAVID Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- EDWARDS RICHARD Department of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/2(1996-06), 157-165 0957-4824 11:2<157 1996 11 heapro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford