SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Informal Social Control, Club Foot, Body Painting
19 Apr 2020
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Bodily differences often regarded as sign of moral failing. Results in stigmatization, lead to labels of other . Include mechanisms of informal social control - shunning. Some physical differences elicit sympathy - eg. club foot. But differences regarded as self inflicted usually do not. Ind help in contempt for violating social body norms. Ind attributed may be attributed a master status as a result. Look at two types of body modifications (bm) Both are examples of how body is socially constructed. How cultural meanings are inscribed on the body. How cultural meanings are expressed through the body. How the physical body is becoming increasingly plastic i. e. malleable and modified by culture. Body markings are permanent, obligatory, collective- about membership. Part of shared culture of collective meanings. Inscribed during import rituals- eg . rites of passage. Ensured stability of in group against outsiders. Social members expressed through marking the body. Kinship affiliation - who one could and could not marry.
