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KPE 100

Physical Cultural Studies Week 5 October 12, 2022

Agenda

• Guest
• Break
• What questions do you have? Concerns? Comments?
• ‘Key Concept of the Week’
• Reading – Beamish (Chapter 4)
  • Activity
• Referencing
• Next class

• Dr. Boba Samuels
• Assistant Professor, KPE
• Director, Health Sciences Writing Centre

5 Minute Break

Reminder

Your first written assignment – Article Review – is due on November 2 nd

Key Concept of the Week

10 Concepts for 10 Weeks

• Social stratification
• The ‘Sociological Imagination’
• Agency vs. Structure
• Social construction
• Identity
  • Policy implications
  • Social stigma
  • The Body
  • Hegemony
  • Discourse

Discourse - 1

What does it mean (in linguistics)?

• Communication by words
• Speech or language longer than a sentence Dictionary.com

Discourse - 2

What does it mean (in the social sciences)?

• The ideas, norms, or concepts that shape a culture, society and/or individual behaviour
• Discourses are often expressed through language, but they are not simply empty statements – rather, they communicate meaning

Michel Foucault

• French philosopher
• 1926 - 1984
• ‘Foucauldian discourse’

Discourse – 4

For Foucault, discourses are produced at

the intersection of power and knowledge.

Discourse – 6

For Foucault, power is everywhere:

• Institutions
• People
• Economy
• Media
• And so on…

Discourse – 7 Discourses of Health

POWER

• Universities
• Governments
• Health Organizations
• Media
• Advertising
• Peers KNOWLEDGE
  • “Physical activity is good”
  • “Responsible people take care of themselves”
  • “One’s body reflects one’s health”