SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Snack, Binge Eating Disorder, Yehoshua Sagi
Document Summary
Morality and health: news media constructions of overweight and eating disorders by saguy & gruys. Eating disorders & overweight are linked to class, race and gender. In the united states, thinness is associated with high social status and taken as evidence of moral virtue. In contrast, fatness is linked to low status and seen as a sign of sloth and gluttony. The media predominantly attribute overweight to bad individual choices and tend to treat binge eating disorder as ordinary and blameworthy overeating. -> because of food deserts and lack of healthy food choices relate to last weeks lecture), such reporting reinforces social stereotypes of fat people, ethnic minorities, and the poor as out of control and lazy. Case study: white girl that comes from affluent nuclear family gets anorexia while black boy that comes from a single parent family is obese where the body weight is indicative of social status (234).
