The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory: 7 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Mike Featherstone; Mike Hepworth; Bryan Turner

 
9780803984134: The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory: 7 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803984138 ISBN 13: 9780803984134
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803984138
ISBN 13 
9780803984134
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
420
Herausgeber
Featherstone Mike, Hepworth Mike, Turner Bryan S.
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