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fatness is associated with downward mobility

 
 
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Reply Mon 16 Aug, 2010 06:07 am
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Today, poorer people are most likely to be fat and so, said Abigail Saguy, a sociologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, “fatness is associated with downward mobility.” Weight has thus become a moral issue couched in health concerns, she said. After a while, it almost becomes inconceivable that anyone would see a fat person differently.


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Reply Mon 16 Aug, 2010 06:13 am
@fansy,
Here mobility means movement in social status. Downward mobility means less income, less social status. When the author says "fatness is associated with downward mobility" it means that he is saying that people perceive fat people as being less worthy.
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