SOCI 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: School Discipline, Social Isolation, Habituation
22 Feb 2018
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Halse et al. on schooling and anorexia: the discourse of anorexia, aims at analyzing how disciplinary practices, regulatory regimes and moral technologies in schooling signify and enter in to the articulation of discourses. [of anorexia] : through immersion in and habituation to discourse, individuals interiorize external controls and practices and take them up as an internal constraint on the conduct of the self . Power is embedded in everything: not top-down. Being so strict and disciplined with something, but taking it too far/overboard. Dieting is a discipline but some people cause a paradox of virtue by starving themselves. Particular representation of the wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) to the (cid:373)a(cid:374)"s sta(cid:374)dard. Attends to the norm but takes it further. Obesity: obesity is excessive body weight, given an individual"s age, sex, and height, obese people are often treated like deviants. Beyond the individual we can find examples of how appearance is controlled by power.
