SOC 311Sociology of the Body
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1992–93 to 1994–95 (before that, 1967–68 to 1979–80 used the number for Social Structure and Character and Dehumanizing Institutions and Social Structure and Character in Crisis); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
This course examines institutional influences on bodily practices, including practices of regulation and control. Examples of topics examined include the body in consumer culture; exercise, dieting and fitness as social practice; professional dominance, regulation of bodies, and forms of cultural embodiment in gender, race and social class.
As printed in the 1992–93 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1967–68 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1992–93 to 1994–95 3 calendars
This course examines institutional influences on bodily practices, including practices of regulation and control. Examples of topics examined include the body in consumer culture; exercise, dieting and fitness as social practice; professional dominance, regulation of bodies, and forms of cultural embodiment in gender, race and social class.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Not in the 1980–81 to 1991–92 calendars.
1979–80 1 calendar
Another title: Social Structure and Character in Crisis, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
This course examines the consequences of drastic changes, whether induced by natural disaster or human action, on sociai structure and human personality. Consequences of earthquakes and floods are compared with those of forced migration and resettlement.
0.5 credit
Not in the 1972–73 to 1978–79 calendars.
1969–70 to 1971–72 3 calendars
Another title: Dehumanizing Institutions, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
A supposedly value-free social science cannot address itself to questions of the despoilment or enrichment of the human condition. Once values are taken as essential in human societies, reference to cultural or subcultural values facilitates evaluative analysis of social institutions and of interpersonal behaviour. Within a value frame of reference and with the analytic tools of behavioural science, this course seeks to explore the institutional origins, evolving social structures, and behavioural consequences of imperialism, slavery, racism, and total war. Fall term.
1967–68 to 1968–69 2 calendars
Another title: Social Structure and Character, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
The relation between social organization and personality is here explored in the context of communal societies, modern bureaucratic organization, a comparison of Latin-American and Anglo-American slavery, and the concentration camp.
3 lectures.
Prerequisite: Sociology 210.