Explaining the Failure of an Obesity Intervention: Combining Bourdieu’s Symbolic Violence and the Foucault’s Microphysics of Power to Reconsider State Interventions
| Autor: | Laura Frances Chase, Faye Linda Wachs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Sociology and Political Science business.industry Psychological intervention Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Gender studies Standardized test Social constructionism Power (social and political) Intervention (law) Health promotion General partnership Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Sociology Social science business |
| Zdroj: | Sociology of Sport Journal. 30:111-131 |
| ISSN: | 1543-2785 0741-1235 |
| DOI: | 10.1123/ssj.30.2.111 |
| Popis: | This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. Department of Education grant which created a three way partnership between middle schools in a poor largely Latino school district, the local University, and local after-school care providers. This paper assesses the project and situates it theoretically using Foucault’s microphysics of power and Bourdieu’s concepts of capital to analyze the refusal of most students and teachers to engage in the program and the standardized testing required by the state. We further articulate a new form of Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence based on position in the consumer hierarchy. We conclude with a critique of grant mechanisms as a means of addressing health issues, and situate the obesity epidemic as a social construction that perpetuates inequality and discourses of power. |
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