ANTB64H3 Chapter Notes -Haute Couture, Social Capital, List Of Robotech Characters
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The political economy of obesity: the fat pay all -alice juilier. The obesity epidemic is overshadowing such issues as the genocide in darfur or war in. Tyranny of thinness - ties slender appear. to virtue. Functionalism: institutions have social funct"s that fill social and invid. needs, ineteg. The functional analysis of obesity them into a larger syst. that remains relatively stable; adherence to status quo, presents society as a cohesive entity. Functions: the existence of obesity of a pop. of people id"d visually and scientifically as being too fat ensures that society"s dirty work gets done. Society can fill these jobs by paying higher wages for clean work or by forcing those who have no other choice to do the dirty work and at low wages. Two factors affecting econ. mobil. and stabil. are discrim. and soc. capital. Fat discrim. is an accepted yardstick for meas. workers i. e. body is read for slovenly behav. , abnormality, inherent flaws.
