SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Bar And Bat Mitzvah, Social Stigma, Midlife Crisis
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Our discussion of height and weight to make it clear that our bodies and not biologically but also socially deined. For social economic and technological obeisance enhancing body image to conform to prevailing norms became especially important in urban and industrial socieies. The social economic and technological forces have transformed the way we manipulate our body image. Ask negaive aitudes toward let-handedness seems nonsensical don"t think of let- handed people roughly 10% of populaion as impaired or deicient in physical or mental capacity. Nor do we think of them as having disability on being in capable of performing within the range of normal human acivity. These examples suggest that deiniions of visibility diferent across socieies in historical. Modern western approaches to disability and makes in the 19 century all scienists and reformers of the ime of disability as a self evident biological reality. Some scienists and reformers sought the rehabilitaion of those with disabiliies.
