OBESITY AND BULLYING IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE: THE STIGMA OF FAT
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2012.3330Abstract
This paper aims to identify the symbolic representations of bullying given to obese children and teenagers. Through socio-anthropological studies it is possible to interpret data suggesting the process of stigma creation by signs of deterioration, humiliation and prejudice in school ambit from the excess of body fat. Thus, it is important to think over on how the actors situate themselves in this social plot and what are the possible repercussions against the victim student, as well as the offender student. The inferiorized student has his identity built intersubjectively as stigmatized. We conclude that the bias given to children with childhood obesity is founded on social and cultural constructions about beauty standards and the body pathologizing. It is up to educators and health professionals not to build ways to regulate the healthy body, but to step in ethically and responsibly in these situations.
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