SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality
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Chapter 12: sociology of the body: disability, aging and death. Embedded in the idea that our bodies reflect our selves. The standards in which we define as a normal or desirable body vary historically. A person"s height, weight, and perceived attractiveness influence his/her annual income, health, likelihood of getting married, and much else. Age is one basis of social inequality: due to improved social policy and medical advances, the social condition of the aged is much better. The ultimate social problems dying and death. An experiment showed that people believe the physical stature reflects social stature: students thought the individuals w/ a higher social status were taller, ex. Professor was the tallest, undergraduate was the shortest, but they were both the same height) Genes are an important determinant of any particular individual"s height: great majority of human populations are apprx the same genetically, a complex series of social consequences flow from differences in height.
