- A preference for women in controlling their bodies in both their aesthetic and sexual facets, especially when they are young, and a reinforcement of their inferiority for those who are young and from affluent backgrounds.
- Signs of differentiation and social classification employed vary depending on social class
- Inferiorization and control of the body can be internalized and serve to inspire some habits while also serving as sources of stress
- Sources of stress for teenagers, particularly girls, over which stressors have a greater influence come from the confluence of the shift from an empowering normative framework to one of compliance and the disruptions brought on by undesired physical changes.

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While there is a long tradition of studying health inequalities between social classes, the standard approach does not apply for anorexia. The intersection of the social relations of age, gender, and social background, with which they are related, accounts sociologically for the disparities in the frequency of EDs.


Anorexia in Social Relationships

Scodellaro, C., Pan Ké Shon, J.-L., Legleye, S., & Hamilton, P. (2017). Disorders in Social Relationships: The Case of Anorexia and Bulimia. Revue Française de Sociologie (English Edition), 58(1), 1–30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26605190

Disorders in Social Relationships

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