The Body: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 1Andrew Blaikie, Mike Hepworth, Mary Holmes Psychology Press, 2003 M08 28 - 2888 pages This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a robust source for scholars working in the area. The central focus is on understanding sociology through the body; what is often described as re-reading sociology in a 'more corporeal light'. This is an interdisciplinary process, drawing on history, feminism, cultural history, art history, anthropology, social psychology, philosophy, medical sociology and media and communications, as well as sociology. While this has been primarily a Western practice, The Body seeks to broaden the perspective to include references that draw on alternative cultural assumptions, beliefs and practices (including Japan, and South America.) |
Contents
Bodily knowledge 52 | 52 |
Embodiment as a paradigm for anthropology 83 | 83 |
Sociological discourse and the body | 120 |
understanding socialized | 133 |
The undersocialised conception of the embodied agent | 156 |
emotion and the somatization of social theory | 175 |
The elusory body and social constructionist theory | 193 |
interface of sociological | 214 |
why the return of the repressed | 254 |
tensions inside and outside | 284 |
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The Body: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 1 Andrew Blaikie,Mike Hepworth,Mary Holmes Limited preview - 2003 |
The Body: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 1 Andrew Blaikie,Mike Hepworth,Mary Holmes Limited preview - 2003 |