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Article: Tipping the social scales: body weight in dating and marriage.
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- Human Ecology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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In our culture, body weight has shifted from a private, personal concern to a public, Social Issue. Nutritional sociologist Jeffery Sobal is examining how attitudes about body Weight, and body Weight itself, change throughout the life course, particularly in dating and marriage.
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