SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Michel Foucault, Extra Ea-200, Gerontocracy

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Sociology of the body: different conceptions of the body, subject and object, the body and society, the social construction of disability, video: shameless the art of disability, the sociology of aging & results from optional homework, mini-proposals. Sociology: yet our bodies are something we have inherited", fully made up by genes and thus not a. "product" of society: a belief in such immutability, however, is an error. The belief that the body is made up of only genes, or that our bodies are the same as they were 500 years ago, is wrong. These societal pressures push us to make us believe that we have to have right, good and proper bodies: societal elements determine what the ideal body is. How much fat is acceptable, and in what parts of the body: once working on our body has been formed into a duty, society sets the standards for a desirable and approved shape.

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