Social Implications of Weight Bias Internalisation: Parents’ Ultimate Responsibility as Consent, Social Division and Resistance

Frontiers in Psychology

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Sharon Noonan-Gunning¹ 

[1] Department of Sociology, University of London, United Kingdom

关键词: parents;    stigma;    care;    responsibility;    class;    inequalities;    moral associates;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02321

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Responsibility is a moral quality of caring that is central to child health policies. In contemporary United Kingdom these policies are based on behavioural psychology and underpinned by individualism, an ideology central to neoliberal governance. Amid the complexities of “obesity” and inequalities, there is a multi-layered stigmatisation of parents as moral associates. Few studies consider the lived realities of food policy processes from the standpoint of class. This critical qualitative research draws on theorists who explain processes of power and class: Foucault, Gramsci, Bourdieu, and Marx. Its objectives are: (a) to understand the lived experience of parents as they interact with food policy; (b) to explore how parents resist stigmatisation; and (c) to reflect on implications for policy and practice. Methods Using purposive sampling, 31 ethnographically informed interviews were carried out in a London borough, with policy actors: policymakers, implementers, and parents as policy recipients, including 12 working-class mothers.

【 授权许可】

CC BY