Chapter 6- Looking Deviant

Question 0

Camouflaging Projects

Answer 0

Normative techniques of body manipulation, learned in socialization processes (makeup, clothing, hairstyle)

Question 1

Body Projects

Answer 1

The way that each of us adapts, changes, or controls characteristics of our bodies, and whether those are voluntary or involuntary. Four categories

Question 2

Extending body projects

Answer 2

attempts to overcome one’s physical limitations (contact lenses)

Question 3

Adapting body projects

Answer 3

parts of the body are removed or repaired for aesthetic or medical purposes

Question 4

Redesigning body projects

Answer 4

reconstruct the body is lasting ways, (tattoos, plastic surgery)

Question 5

Master Status

Answer 5

category immediately placed on some people based just on appearances

Question 6

Established Femininity

Answer 6

embodies the dominant cultural construction of what a female body should look like.

Question 7

Resistant Femininity

Answer 7

opposed dominant gender ideals, and thereby serves as a form of resistance to existing structures of power in society

Question 8

BMI’s

Answer 8

Underweight Below 18.4, healthy between 18.5 and 24.9, overweight between 25.0 and 29.9, and obese over 30.

Question 9

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 9

15% below normal body weight, missed 3 periods in a row, extreme fear of becoming fat, abnormal self perception of body

Question 10

Muscle dismorphia

Answer 10

more common in males, obssesion with muscle budding (called bigorexia)

Question 12

Four causal theories for anorexia

Answer 12

Ego-psychological theories (emphasize impaired psychological functioning from mom-daughter relationship)
Family systems theory (anorexia is facillitated by over controlling rigid families)
Endocriniological (various hormonal defects)
Sociocultural (looking at social normas emphasizing thinness, media images, and social learning/modelling)

Question 13

Primary prevention of anorexia

Answer 13

efforts to prevent eating disorders from occuring in the first place, entails school and community programs that raise awareness of eating disorders and their associated dangers as well as the unrealistic body ideals portrayed in popular culture

Question 14

Secondary prevention of anorexia

Answer 14

indentifying young people who are in the very early stages of the disorder, entails informing parents, teachers, and coaches about the warning signs of eating disorders and effective means of intervention