Viktordningen
Ett Analytiskt Perspektiv
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10756299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Ekman (0000-0002-3801-0541, Jönköping University, corresponding author), Aimée Ekman, Bengt Richt (Linköping University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 223-245 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologisk Forskning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0342 • E-ISSN: 2002-066X |
| Publisher | Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.37062/sf.50.18381 |
| OpenAlex | W4300169177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
The weight order – an analytical perspectiveThis article is an outline of a critically oriented and empirically grounded theory of the weight order, as a complement to theories of more widely recognized and studied ordering systems. We 1) expose the weight orders “absent presence” in humanistic and social science-oriented research treating overweight and fatness as a personal or social problem, 2) outline the contours and characteristics of this specific ordering system, and 3) suggest a set of sensitizing concepts for analysis of this ordering system. Two primary forms of activity, maintaining order and putting in order, are analysed. The first is making thin people into order and overweight people into disorder, and thus maintains order in the weight order. The other, putting in order, covers different activities supposed to make sure that people keep their bodies thin or try to become thin. These ordering activities meet resistance when overweight people stop dieting and/or define overweight as a personal choice and themselves as good enough, or even healthy and beautiful. We call these forms of resistance alternative weight-doings
Business · Dieting · Epistemology · Humanism · Obesity · Order (exchange · Overweight · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Weight loss · Computer Science · Consumer behavior in food and health · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology
Unbearable Weight
The Influence of One's Own Body Weight on Implicit and Explicit Anti‐fat Bias
The wage effects of obesity
Perceptions of weight discrimination
Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals
Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma
The Stigma of Obesity
Stigma
(Anamnesis) Revolting Bodies
Modernity and ambivalence
Femininity and Domination
The Order of Things
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Neoliberalism, public health, and the moral perils of fatness
Fat Studies
Collateral Damage from Friendly Fire
(Un/Be)Coming Out? Rethinking Fat Politics
The Stigma of Women's Weight
Why Fat is a Feminist Issue
Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias
Introduction
Purity and Danger
Body Mass Index, masculinities and moral worth
The emergence of overweight as a disease entity
What is Wrong with Social Theory
Feminism and the Invisible Fat Man
Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity
Normality, risk and the future
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |