KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pierre Bourdieu, Spanx, Verbal Behavior
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Kine 1000 - lecture 6: critical thinking and thinking. In developing our socio-cultural understanding of the body, physical activity and health, we must. Recognize the body and health as social constructions. Recognize power and power relations in these social constructions. Phenomena or practices that we give form and meaning to as we live our lives with one another. Must be studied in connection with and in relation to social, economic and political processes. An example would be how we coin specific terms onto specific body parts. Spanx is an example of trying to implicitly send a message that people with imperfect butts need to change through a solution (buying their product) The power to socially construct a practice. Power is not distributed equally or equitably. An example, a prof has full power over the class and is able to control the verbal behaviour in the class. However, the class also has power when everyone starts rumbling.