Author : Sarah Nettleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134717539
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes:- * physical and emotional bodies * illness and disability * gender * ageing. A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, a field previously dominated by theoretical or philosophical accounts.
Author : Sarah Nettleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134717547
Empirical study - most studies are theoretical ie no direct competition The book deals with a highly topical subject - the sociology of the body and embodiment is an expanding field within the social sciences, eg, the British Sociology Assoc annual conference 1998, has 'Making Sense of The Body' as it's theme Contributors are leaders in the field especially Emily Martin at Princeton
Author : Joel James Shuman
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1587431270
A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
Author : Barry Wellman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470777389
The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.
Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134329245
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society. In turn, these corporeal theories have implications for social relations in an era of new technologies and global market economies. The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body. It uses case studies in performance practices to examine the key concepts, methods and critical insights gained from this area. It includes sections on: ethnographies of the body bodies of performance performing gender the ageing performing body. This book clearly illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, and considers the negative and positive implications for the development of future socio-cultural analysis in the field. It will be an invaluable introduction for students of sociology, body studies, gender studies, dance and performance, and cultural studies.
Author : Leszek Koczanowicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031448332
The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces – in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change.
Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2003-09-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780333724316
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
Author : Sarah Nettleton
Publisher : Polity
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745628281
This reader brings together recent writing on health, illness and health care in contemporary society. It emphasizes the empirical nature of medical sociology and its relationship with the development of sociological theory.
Author : Howard R. Pollio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 1997-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521462051
Presents results from a qualitative approach to the psychological study of everyday human experiences.
Author : Jay Ingram
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0143173642
Have you ever felt a sudden rush of recognition that you've been in a place before? What causes a déjà vu? Why do dogs look like their owners? What's up with insect swarms? What's the science behind showing your tongue? Do you keep drier by walking or running through a rainstorm? In this updated and expanded edition of The Science of Everyday Life, bestselling author Jay Ingram explains these and many more weird and fascinating mysteries.
