PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Medicalization, Progressive Tax, Meritocracy

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For presentations, explain key terms from the readings and lectures (ex. Sociological imagination and hegemony: we need to show implications of actions and what is not being shown in the clip, what should be in the clip, and why it should be shown. First, describe what your focusing on: use the article to get your definition for the key terms. Language shifts: obesity becomes a disease and an epidemic: an epidemic would be something like chicken pox. Its contagious: this is the medicalization of social phenomenon so prevalent today. We are taking something that is a robust (lot of components and multi faceted) and medicalizing it. When you medicalize things, you get funding and money: there"s nothing wrong with medicalizing, but its not the whole story. We get lots of money for cancer because we medicalize it: when we see everything or everything about one particular thing though medical discourse, we are myopic.

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