SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Canada Women'S National Soccer Team, Impression Management, Medicalization
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Bodies: appearance is important, perceptions of deviant appearances change over time, voluntary appearance (ex. clothing, makeup, blurred boundaries over time and place involuntary appearance (ex. height) Body projects (schilling, 1993): ways we adapt, change, or control our bodies: camouflaging - normative process, extending - overcoming perceived physical limitations, adapting - removing or repairing redesigning - reconstruction. Body modification: redesigning (ex. tattoos, piercings) illustration of changes over time. What do modified bodies tell us: characteristics of the individual risk, motivation, dramaturgy: understandings of the self through interaction, dramaturgical approach impression management front stage, back stage. Tattoos ideological messages: control over one"s body, symbolism - healing, self esteem, lifestyle, rebellion, confidence, personality. Women and tattoos in canada - women are more likely than men to have tattoos: association with masculinity, growing prevalence remains stigmatized, construction of the gendered self, established femininity resistance femininity, negotiated femininity. Social control of too fat" interaction industry: media, community, medicalization, government.
