Key Concepts in Body and Society

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84787-544-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 296 g

Reihe: SAGE Key Concepts series

"This is a very useful book outlining the key concepts of the body in society. It is easy to read and provides useful examples, making it ideal for students across a range of social science disciplines."

- Dr Sharron Hinchliff, Sheffield University

"Cregan has achieved something distinct: an account of the sociology of the body which incorporates both theory and empirical studies, which demonstrates excellent coverage of an ever expanding field, and which is written in an accessible style. An intelligent treatment and account of the sociology of the body, which I look forward to incorporating into my teaching."

- Dr Rob Meadows, University of Surrey

"This book is a great idea. It provides a thorough, accessible and interesting introduction to the most important concepts in the sociology of the body. Students new to this area will find it invaluable."

- Professor Deborah Lupton, University of Sydney

This book provides a clear, focused road map to the study of the body in society. It defines, explains and applies core topics relating to the human body demonstrating how we approach it as a social phenomenon.
Each concept:

- Includes an easy to understand definition

- Provides real-world examples

- Gives suggestions for further reading

- Is carefully cross-referenced to other related concepts.

Written to meet the needs of the modern student, this book offers the basic materials, tools and guidance needed study and write about the body.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cregan, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ageing and Childhood

Anorexia/Bulimia/Obesity

Appearance and Beauty

Civilizing Processes

Class/Caste

Clothing

Colonialism/Post-Colonialism

Consumption

Cyborgs

Death and Dying

Difference

Disability/Ability

Discourse

Dualism

Emotion

Feminism

Food and Eating

Gender/Sex

Genetics

Gesture and Habits

Habitus

Health and Illness

Identity

Media and Representation

Medicine and Science

Modification/Dysmorphias

Nature/Culture

Pain

Performativity

Phenomenology

Power

Private/Public

Psychoanalysis

Queer

Race and Ethnicity

Religion

Reproduction
Sexuality

Sport

Technology

Violence

Work

Youth

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Cregan, Kate
Kate Cregan is the author of Global Childhoods: Issues and Debates (SAGE, 2014), Key Concepts in Body and Society (SAGE, 2012), Sociology of the Body: Mapping the Abstraction of Embodiment (SAGE, 2006) and The Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early Modern London (Brepols, 2009).

The majority of her writing and research is based around understandings of the embodiment across time, space and culture-with particular reference to medical interpretations of the body, medical technologies and the representation in images of the body. Two of her allied interests are ethics (human, social and research) and writing pedagogies, in particular how becoming a writer informs the process of becoming a researcher. She has extensive experience teaching and researching in the humanities and social sciences and recently has co-ordinated the teaching of ethics to medical students across the five years of a medical degree. Currently, she is a senior lecturer in sociology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, and she runs the interdisciplinary Graduate Researchers in Print writing program in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne.