GE CLST M72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intersectionality, Participant Observation, Yehoshua Sagi
15 Feb 2017
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Fatness is best understood as a medical problem, a public health crisis, a civil rights isse, 11- what"s wrong with fat? a feminist issue. Fat frames- framing is: cognitive- from our need to simplify the massive data that our brains collect, political, diagnostic- diagnoses what is wrong, prognostic- determines what should be done, partial- not fair. Similar to schemas in psychology, and they all leave things out compared to reality. Saguy- data and methods: interviews, participant observation, analyses of the scientific literature and policy documents, news media analyses, experiments. Different fat frames have to different diagnoses, which lead to different prognoses, and therefore different metaphors- all emphasize certain things while leaving others out. Medical frame: medical, clinical, individual problem, medical solutions- surgeries, implantations, master frame: health, analogy/metaphor= cancer; people with a disease (like cancer) believe that they must cut it out or they will die from it.
