Sociology

SOCY 154 Sociology of Anti-Fat Bias

Examines the ways in which U.S. society pathologizes and marginalizes fat bodies, the impact that structural and social exclusion have on fat people’s lives and health, and possibilities for transforming discourses of anti-fatness in cultural conversations around body size.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared junior and senior majors and minors in sociology, Latin American and Latino studies/sociology combined, and global and community health.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Spring

Instructor

Megan McNamara