ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how interpersonal scripting serves to understand the link between the somatic self and social class amongst the participants in the study, and how intrapsychic scripting can entail a means to grasp the somatic self of the participants in the study in connection to a social classed subjectivity. An upper-classed somatic self was connected to the consumption of traditional food, which was mostly unaffordable for a lower- or middle-class self. The narratives located the somatic self of a middle-class subjectivity within the cultural scripts of ‘healthism’ or the ‘ideology of individual responsibility for health’. The somatic self of the entire middle-class family has typically pivoted on the subjectivity of women because ‘the family is the primary site where individuals’ behaviour patterns and understanding of food are constructed’. In approaching how the somatic self was entangled with the social classed self, the participants encountered the challenge of presenting their subjectivity in terms of class differences.
