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The sociology of the body : mapping the abstraction of embodiment / Kate Cregan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : SAGE, 2006Description: xi, 212 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761940235
  • 9780761940234
  • 0761940243
  • 9780761940241
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4613 22
LOC classification:
  • HM636 .C74 2006
Contents:
Pt. I. Object - the regulated body -- 1. 'Manners maketh the man' : social norms and customary control -- 2. Regimes and institutions : authority and delimited control -- 3. Place and space : habitus and social control -- Pt. II. Abject - the bounded body -- 4. Blood, bile and phlegm : ritual bodies and boundaries that blur -- 5. Mind over matter : psychoanalysis and 'putting on' the body -- Pt. III. Subject - the body of difference -- 6. Technoscience : remodelling and redefining boundaries -- 7. The social subject : life-experiences, lifestyles and life-stages.
Summary: "`Through a provocative analysis, this book contextualizes, explicates and critically analyses the work of those key theorists and texts that have been most influential in refocusing our gaze on human embodiment. Upon this foundation, the author builds her own distinctive theoretical ; Framework towards the analysis of embodiment. This is a valuable addition to the field of body studies' - Chris Shilling, University of Portsmouth ; ; Over the last 20 years, the social sciences have witnessed a remarkable inter-disciplinary surge of interest in the body. The latter is now recognized as a core concept and is the subject of intensive study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. But how can we map this work? What are the contributions and differences of the various approaches? ; ; This lucid and authoritative text: ; ; " Provides a critical evaluation of the work of Elias, Aries, Foucault, Bourdieu, Mary Douglas, Kristeva, Butler, Haraway and Bordo; ; ; " Guides the reader through the inter-disciplinary influence of these ideas; ; ; " Gives a clear and compelling analysis of the significance of the `turn' towards the body; ; ; " Helps to understand the complex way in which embodiment is formed across different social formations. ; ; Clearly organized and powerfully expressed the book provides the best available guide to the `turn to the body' in the social sciences."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Object - the regulated body -- 1. 'Manners maketh the man' : social norms and customary control -- 2. Regimes and institutions : authority and delimited control -- 3. Place and space : habitus and social control -- Pt. II. Abject - the bounded body -- 4. Blood, bile and phlegm : ritual bodies and boundaries that blur -- 5. Mind over matter : psychoanalysis and 'putting on' the body -- Pt. III. Subject - the body of difference -- 6. Technoscience : remodelling and redefining boundaries -- 7. The social subject : life-experiences, lifestyles and life-stages.

"`Through a provocative analysis, this book contextualizes, explicates and critically analyses the work of those key theorists and texts that have been most influential in refocusing our gaze on human embodiment. Upon this foundation, the author builds her own distinctive theoretical ; Framework towards the analysis of embodiment. This is a valuable addition to the field of body studies' - Chris Shilling, University of Portsmouth ; ; Over the last 20 years, the social sciences have witnessed a remarkable inter-disciplinary surge of interest in the body. The latter is now recognized as a core concept and is the subject of intensive study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. But how can we map this work? What are the contributions and differences of the various approaches? ; ; This lucid and authoritative text: ; ; " Provides a critical evaluation of the work of Elias, Aries, Foucault, Bourdieu, Mary Douglas, Kristeva, Butler, Haraway and Bordo; ; ; " Guides the reader through the inter-disciplinary influence of these ideas; ; ; " Gives a clear and compelling analysis of the significance of the `turn' towards the body; ; ; " Helps to understand the complex way in which embodiment is formed across different social formations. ; ; Clearly organized and powerfully expressed the book provides the best available guide to the `turn to the body' in the social sciences."--Publisher description.

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