SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ramrod, Irregular Menstruation, Education Review

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

Document Summary

Common problem among the youth, round or uneven shoulders occurred in almost 20% of university students and 80% of. American children had bad posture (90% being boys) according to child. Health of 1932, and 75% of the population had bad posture as they grew older. Upstanding and nobel: hmm the two diseases that mainly cause bad posture were on a decline when these articles were written. -> no proof, health fad: health fad- lack of scientific justification, and the presence of interest groups which stand to gain from the growth of the fad, two journals, the american physical education review (aper) and the. Research quarterly of the american association for health physical. Education and recreation published 108 papers about posture and only. This may help to explain why the critical papers cited above were ignored by so many posture workers: fads characterized by interest groups. For posture the groups were: specialists . Health management and education (teachers, physicians, physical education,