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Alle Exemplare der Ausgabe mit dieser ISBN anzeigen:`Recently, there has been a considerable increase in academic interest in the body to the extent that it has now become something of a fashionable trend. For those who are confused as to the nature of the major arguments and why they might be important, help is at hand with this book. In it Shilling explores the place of the body and how it has been theorized in sociology.... a lucid book, which makes a useful contribution to, what sometimes might appear to be, a confusing area of study' - British Journal of Sociology
`Well worth a read. It has something to say, which is worth saying and it says it well' - Sociology
`Scholars and teachers can be grateful to Chris Shilling for an incisive survey of how the body motivates contemporary social theory and social theory's various contributions to understanding the body. Shilling does not attempt a new theory of the body, but he organizes a wide range of sociological work into a cohesive interview. He offers lucid summaries of others' theories, valuable critiques of different theorists, and useful criteria for future theorising about the body. His book should enjoy wide use as a core text in sociology of the body courses, or as a supplementary text in social theory or social psychology courses' - Body & Society
This is another review also from the same issue of Body and Social Theory
`A thoughtful, readable and quite persuasive text.... It is a provocative text which covers a large theoretical terrain. Moreover, it both produces a range of contemporary theories on embodiment and marks out its own (cogent) position within them. For this reason it is sure to stand out amongst texts on embodiment for some time to come' - Body & Society
`The chapters on Bourdieu and Elias are particularly good. They are clear, persuasive and insightful.... the book is well worth a read. It has something to say, which is worth saying, and it says it well' - Sociology
`Essential to any collection of work on the body, health and illness or social theory' - Choice
`Shilling has a sophisticated appreciation of the philosophical problems facing a sociology of the body. His book is probably one of the best summaries of the various developments and problems of the modern sociology of the body. Thus he provides us with a stimulating analysis of Bourdieu, Giddens and Norbert Elias. His analysis offers a cogent account of the relationship between naturalistic and sociological studies of human embodiment and he is acutely perceptive of the importance of the complex dialectic between social institutions, culture and biological conditions. His approach is heavily influenced by the work of Giddens on modernity and the reflexive self, and his study is at its most creative when he examines the problem of death in modern societies as a negation of the self as a project. Shilling's study will prove to be an excellent textbook for sociologists working, not only in the area of the sociology of the body, but on related topics such as the sociology of the emotions, the sociology of ageing and medical sociology...Shilling (is) correct to suggest that rather than seeking a sociology of the body, the body should become a necessary theme of all sociological analysis because we could not understand the nature of social action without an adequate conceptualisation of the self' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
`a comprehensive and lucid introduction to this exciting and developing area within modern social thought. It shows how these developments can contribute to wider theoretical debates within sociology, especially those to do with social constructionism and approaches to social inequalities. There are stimulating and original discussions' - David Morgan, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
`The Body and Social Theory cleverly steers between naturalistic and constructionist accounts of the body's sexuality, shaping, medicalization and civilization to treat the body within the problematic of modernity (control and uncertainty). Through succinct analyses of the work of Turner, Giddens, Goffman, Berger, Foucault, Bourdieu and Elias, Chris Shilling shows how the body's symbolic capital is employed to invest class, ethnicity, gender and race with their distinctive aesthetics. This is an invaluable guide to social studies of body behaviour.' - John O'Neill, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto
`We all pay lip service to the interaction between mind and body, but does it make sense to think about ourselves in that way? Are we biological organisms with a veneer of social polish, or are the social and the biological intimately intertwined? Chris Shilling does a great service to contemporary thought by pulling together relevant research, and theorising on such questions. His account demonstrates that it is the social scientists who are giving the most thought to how to integrate social and biologcal research in a meaningful way' - New Scientist
Surveying the range of social theories of the body, Chris Shilling offers a comprehensive and innovative assessment of the field. He analyzes naturalistic, social constructionist and feminist theories of the body, appraises the fundamental sociological contributions of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias, and demonstrates the centrality of the body to the traditional concerns of social theory.
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