SOC 400 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SOLVED)
100% CORRECT.
Intersectionality - ans.... -interconnected nature of social categorizations such as
race, class and gender as they apply to a given individual or group; creating
overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
Frame - ans.... --packaging of a problem, cause and solution
-involves social construction of a social phenomenon
Immorality frame - ans.... -obesity as a moral issue, like other sins
"Fat is bad because it is evidence of sloth and gluttony - ans.... -immorality frame
Cures for moral issues - ans.... -self-restraint and strengthening faith in god
Medical frame - ans.... -obesity as a medical issue
"fatness is a health condition needing medical intervention" - ans.... -medical
frame
Public health crisis frame - ans.... -obesity as a public health issue/epidemic
-obesity as problematic to our nation and need to solve with government
intervention
, Health at every size frame - ans.... -advocacy for addressing sedentary lifestyle,
nutrition, poverty rather than weight per se
"fat isn't the problem, dieting is the problem" - ans.... -health at every size frame
Beauty frame - ans.... -addresses the problem of the narrow understanding of
beauty
"fat women as more feminine" - ans.... -beauty frame
Rights frame - ans.... -fat as a human rights issue similar to women's right and civil
rights movement
Symbolic capital - ans.... -cultural prestige, honor
Subjective-aspects-within-being-viewed-as-object - ans.... --how women
experience identity, subject hood and pleasure in the process of bodily
objectification
-females come to experience themselves as if someone were looking at them and
evaluate themselves based on appearance
Male body panic - ans.... -obsession in males to increase their muscle mass as a
way to reinforce masculinity. Over the years males have become more and more
fixated on their body.
Reasons for male body panic - ans.... -retaliation to feminism
100% CORRECT.
Intersectionality - ans.... -interconnected nature of social categorizations such as
race, class and gender as they apply to a given individual or group; creating
overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
Frame - ans.... --packaging of a problem, cause and solution
-involves social construction of a social phenomenon
Immorality frame - ans.... -obesity as a moral issue, like other sins
"Fat is bad because it is evidence of sloth and gluttony - ans.... -immorality frame
Cures for moral issues - ans.... -self-restraint and strengthening faith in god
Medical frame - ans.... -obesity as a medical issue
"fatness is a health condition needing medical intervention" - ans.... -medical
frame
Public health crisis frame - ans.... -obesity as a public health issue/epidemic
-obesity as problematic to our nation and need to solve with government
intervention
, Health at every size frame - ans.... -advocacy for addressing sedentary lifestyle,
nutrition, poverty rather than weight per se
"fat isn't the problem, dieting is the problem" - ans.... -health at every size frame
Beauty frame - ans.... -addresses the problem of the narrow understanding of
beauty
"fat women as more feminine" - ans.... -beauty frame
Rights frame - ans.... -fat as a human rights issue similar to women's right and civil
rights movement
Symbolic capital - ans.... -cultural prestige, honor
Subjective-aspects-within-being-viewed-as-object - ans.... --how women
experience identity, subject hood and pleasure in the process of bodily
objectification
-females come to experience themselves as if someone were looking at them and
evaluate themselves based on appearance
Male body panic - ans.... -obsession in males to increase their muscle mass as a
way to reinforce masculinity. Over the years males have become more and more
fixated on their body.
Reasons for male body panic - ans.... -retaliation to feminism
