KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Forces, Critical Thinking

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Parissa Safai

Document Summary

Social construction is the paradigm of the course. Sociological imagination- is the exercise of free will but other social processes impact on our decision? you can be impacted by social forces and they shape our lives. Who we are as an individual and the impact of social forces on us. The body is a site where the sociological imagination is activated. That cartoon shows how we normalize the body shaping and norms changing. What counts as normal or healthy body can change. What assumption are people make abput you because of your physical by , your name , your hair , colour of your eyes. Agency: the freedom to choose and the will to choose and to act (freedom is the agent) ( the capacity to choose) Agent: an individual with the freedom to choose and to act. Lots of emphasis on the individual and their responsibility and the choices that they make.