SOCPSY 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ageism, Relate, Young Life
17 Oct 2017
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Why is the body important: focus on lived body or embodiment since it is central to everyday life by allowing one to understand and participate in the world through bodies. For example, creating self and identity, by constructing and experienced through the body. For example, physical characteristics contribute to and share our perceptions and interactions. How do we know the body? (naturalistic/biological: biological knowledge is tied to function and dysfunction. Explores how the body works, it"s capabilities and limitations. Important to study the body biologically and socially. What is embodiment: embodiment: perceptual experience and the mode of presence and engagement in being in the world. Embodiment is impacted by power dynamics and ideologies. Embodied experiences: talking bodies: gain insight into bodies through narrative approaches and storytelling about ourselves and others. Aging body as biologically and socially constructed: aging body is biologically and socially constructed.
