SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Michel Foucault, Ableism, Social Inequality
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An on-going focus of this course is the difference that living in society makes to what we do, how we see ourselves, objects and others, and what happens as a result. Yet our bodies are something we have inherited", fully made up by genes and thus not a. A belief in such immutability, however, is an error. Like anything else about us, the circumstance of living in society makes an enormous amount of difference to our bodies. The kind of society in which we live affects whether we are at peace with our body. We may view our bodies as a task something to work on which requires daily care and attention. Once working on our body has been formed into a duty, society sets the standards for a desirable and approved shape. Failure to comply with standards can induce feelings of shame.
