SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

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Bodies overview: standards for bodies vary, what bodies symbolize, self-presentation, the bottom line: meanings are social. Clicker questio(cid:374): the people irwi(cid:374) studied (cid:862)legiti(cid:373)ati(cid:374)g the first tattoo(cid:863) were (cid:373)ost worried about: maintaining their middle-class status after being tattooed. We think of bodies as biological, but it took centuries to arrive at this understanding. Obviously, bodies differ. (male, female, ages, thick, thin, etc). And we evaluate them, positively. (miss america & mr. world). Some we view as extremely gross or unattractive. It is the assumption that we all make that the way we think about the world is the. We grow up in a society, we learn the norms (rules), we learn how the people in that society are supposed to think, and we think all people think that way. But body standards vary across space and time. Paleolithi(cid:272) (cid:862)ve(cid:374)us(cid:863) figu(cid:396)es f(cid:396)o(cid:373) eu(cid:396)ope (cid:894)about 25,000 years old). The(cid:455) a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t sli(cid:373) a(cid:374)d thin, they are hefty and have big bodies.