Drawing on relevant psychosocial theories and examples, critically discuss how the body is a site of social construction of difference?
Drawing on relevant psychosocial theories and examples, critically discuss how the body is a site of social construction of difference?
-Describe in details the centrality of the body in the social construction of identity?
-Discuss the issues (contradictions)
-Bourdieu and the social / physical capital. Discuss the centrality of body in the contemporary class, distinction, taste and lifestyle? (Discuss contemporary examples? link them to theory.
-Foucault and the disciplined body, Discuss the place of the body in Foucault theory of power and discipline ? Disciplinary practices and resistance. Discuss contemporary examples link to the theory?
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