dc.contributor.author | Hervik, Stein Egil Kolderup | |
dc.contributor.author | Skille, Eivind Åsrum | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-01T07:26:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-01T07:26:23Z | |
dc.date.created | 2021-10-04T10:07:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0141-9889 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2832222 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this article, we explore lay men's understanding of the relationship between other's bodily appearance and health— ‘the Lay Gaze’. We applied the theoreti-cal concepts of biopower, medical gaze, bodyism and healthism— the ideology where one feature is that a slim body is equivalent to a healthy body— and interviewed 18 adult and elderly men in rural Norway, representing a heterogeneous group regarding age, ethnicity and educa-tion. To explore the interviewees’ subjective perception or ‘gaze’, the interviewees were presented with eight pic-tures of different people. Our main findings were, first, that the sample of a relatively heterogeneous group of adult and elderly lay men in rural Norway talk similarly about body appearance and health and follow the heal-thism discourse with an embedded association between body appearance and health assessment. Second, we found some variation regarding how interviewees define other standards for the elderly and black people. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.rights | Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | ‘The Lay Gaze’—Rural Norwegian men’s assessment of others’ health based on pictures | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.source.journal | Sociology of Health and Illness | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/1467-9566.13368 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1942899 | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |