Ожирение как моральная паника: тематический анализ теоретических и эмпирических публикации в темпоральной перспективе

Журнал исследований социальной политики. 2023. Т. 21. № 1. С. 175–186.

Mikhaylova O.

Obesity is considered one of the thorniest contemporary global social issues. However, not all social scientists perceive medically overweight people as threatening the individual and public health. In this paper, I analyze one of such theoretical frames on obesity. I review studies of obesity as moral panic based on the scientific publications included in Scopus citations database. As a result, I offer periodization of the empirical and theoretical papers, where authors use this theoretical approach and allocate stable and volatile traits of the moral panic research on obesity in the temporal perspective. I conclude that despite the dynamic development of this theoretical and methodological tradition in the last century its cultural universality and possibilities of the measurement in dynamic remain questionable.

Keywords: ожирение, obesity, обзор, review, моральная паника, moral panic, критические исследования веса и телесности, critical weight studies