COMS 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Junk Food, Moral Panic

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 393
• Professor: Kirsten Louise Ellison

Document Summary

The unhealthy other: is important for our identity. We get to see how others are to be able to compare ourself, These are no longer because of their actions, their type is casted into a particular role. If you have someone who is thin who eats a ton of junk food, you are not going to think they should step it up and stop being lazy. The classical body : ruled by reason, in control, civilized. The carnivalesue body: ruled by passion over reason.