SOCI 2610H Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Human Body Weight, Body Modification
29 Nov 2018
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Soci 2610 deviance and social control ( looking deviant: physical appearance ) Chapter summary: physical appearance is extremely important. All of us engage in body projects that change our bodies" functioning or appearance. Social scientists propose that the appearance of people"s bodies can convey many important messages: a growing proportion of people alter their appearance through body modification. Body size and weight is a nexus for social typing that occurs everywhere around us on a daily basis. Once that label is attached, social control efforts are initiated through formal prevention and intervention measures, the media, and personal interactions: labels of too fat and too thin are resisted in numerous ways. The former is resisted through fat acceptance organizations and some elements of the media. The latter is resisted through the rwandan chic that permeates hollywood, which suggests that there is no such thing as too thin.
