SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Infant Mortality, Infant, Old Age
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How we manage our bodies is learnt while at the same time, how others see us is also the product of common expectations. Deviations from these may cause reflection, as well as reaction in others, leaving those who are identified as being different at a disadvantage, despite the evident skills, abilities and contributions that they might otherwise make to a society. The shape of the body, the way it is dressed and made up the way it moves are messages to others. An on going focus is the difference that living in society makes to what we do, how we see ourselves, objects and others, and what happens as a result. 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 is an error. The circumstance of living in society makes an enormous amount of difference to our bodies.
