Updating the sociocultural approaches to obesity: Proposals from hacking, bourdieu and foucault

Abstract

The increase in obesity rates and their negative consequences, both individually and collectively, call for the need for new scientific approaches, which allow for a multidisciplinary approach that integrates the biological and sociocultural, exploring in depth both aspects objectives as subjective of this problem. In this connection, in this work we propose a set of theoretical reflections, which can serve as a critical framework for updating sociocultural contributions to the scientific debates on obesity and overweight. In order to that first we will review the main characteristics of the biological and sociocultural approaches on the subject. And then we will propose this set of reflections, performing an analysis of the concepts of three critical social theorists, seen as potentially fruitful but little used models in this type of subject by different reasons.