SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Liposuction, Symmetry In Biology, Slippery Slope

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

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This document includes notes on the following: unit 12 (courselink, chapter 12 (textbook) Physical deviance: physical traits are real, how we see them is socially constructed. o. Someone who is tall in one society may be short in another: the birth of deformed children was once viewed as bad omens. The word monster comes from the french monere: to warn. Birth defects of animals and people were used by soothsayers in the past to. Some societies consider physical defects signs from god--or sins of the parents. predict doom. Stigma and shame by body type: physical deviance and sexual orientation usually become coupled together with other insults. Master status: when someone"s deviance becomes the single most important o o o: we hear fat slob but never skinny slob. factor in how people see them. This results in a spoiled identity other sins. Spoiled identity: the stigmatizing trait is assumed to indicate many.