Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social ProblemsJeffery Sobal Routledge, 08.09.2017 - 260 Seiten Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem; when, then, does body weight become a social problem? Until recently, the major public concern was whether enough food was consistently available. As food systems began to provide ample and stable amounts of food, questions about food availability were replaced with concerns about ideal weights and appearance. These interests were aggregated into public concerns about defining people as too fat and too thin.Social constructionist perspectives can contribute to the understanding of weight problems because they focus attention on how these problems are created, maintained, and promoted within various social environments. While there is much objectivist research concerning weight problems, few studies address the socially constructed aspects of fatness and thinness.This book however draws from and contributes to social constructionist perspectives. The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem. |
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... HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS 2 Children and Weight Control : Priorities in the United States and France Peter N. Stearns 11 3 Fat Boys and Goody Girls : Hilde Bruch's Work on Eating Disorders and the American Anxiety about Democracy , 1930 ...
... HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS 2 Children and Weight Control : Priorities in the United States and France Peter N. Stearns 11 3 Fat Boys and Goody Girls : Hilde Bruch's Work on Eating Disorders and the American Anxiety about Democracy , 1930 ...
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... historical conditions , and cultural values . Contextual constructionism also permits the differentiation between sets of claims — as some sets may be more worthy of study than others . Strict constructionists have difficulty with this ...
... historical conditions , and cultural values . Contextual constructionism also permits the differentiation between sets of claims — as some sets may be more worthy of study than others . Strict constructionists have difficulty with this ...
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... historical foundations of current conceptions of body weight ? How have medical models dealt with weight issues ? How do the ... History , sociology , nutrition , communications , psychology , and public health all elicit different ...
... historical foundations of current conceptions of body weight ? How have medical models dealt with weight issues ? How do the ... History , sociology , nutrition , communications , psychology , and public health all elicit different ...
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... history , psychiatric history , and such events in world history as the depression and the cold war produced complex portraits of weight as historically and socially located within specific times and contexts . MEDICAL MODELS Medical ...
... history , psychiatric history , and such events in world history as the depression and the cold war produced complex portraits of weight as historically and socially located within specific times and contexts . MEDICAL MODELS Medical ...
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... historical case reveals that the adoption and rejection of a method is not simply an objective and technical matter , but rather it is a social product constructed through a web of dynamic organizational relationships . Their account ...
... historical case reveals that the adoption and rejection of a method is not simply an objective and technical matter , but rather it is a social product constructed through a web of dynamic organizational relationships . Their account ...
Inhalt
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Part III Medical Models | 51 |
Part IV Gendered Dimensions | 95 |
Part V Institutional Components | 157 |
Part VI Collective Processes | 207 |
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors | 251 |
Index | 255 |
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