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The rise of the body and the development of sociology

Shilling, Chris (2005) The rise of the body and the development of sociology. Sociology, 39 (4). pp. 761-767. ISSN 0038-0385. (doi:10.1177/0038038505056034) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:4876)

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Abstract

Studies of embodiment have occupied an increasingly important role in sociology

and across the social sciences and humanities since the 1980s. This ‘rise of the body’

has led not only to the establishment of a vibrant interdisciplinary area of ‘body

studies’, but has also prompted an ongoing reconstruction of disciplinary and subdisciplinary

areas seeking to account more adequately for the embodied nature and

consequences of their subject matter. It has also been responsible for a shift in mainstream

social theory. A growing number of works concerned with performativity,

structuration theory, nature, realism, feminism, and human creativity, for example,

are illustrative of an increasingly widespread recognition that the embodied subject

needs to be central to any comprehensive understanding of social life.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0038038505056034
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Chris Shilling
Date Deposited: 18 Sep 2008 16:03 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:43 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/4876 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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