The Body

Critical Concepts in Sociology
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-26662-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 2888 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 5500 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in Sociology

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.)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blaikie, Andrew

Hepworth, Mike

Holmes, Mary

Howson, Alexandra

Inglis, David

Sartain, Sheree

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Knowing Bodies
II. Sociology, Nature and the Body
III. Body History

IV. Living and Dying Bodies

V. 'Alternative' Bodies

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Andrew Blaikie, Mike Hepworth, Mary Holmes, Alexandra Howson, David Inglis and Sheree Sartain