| The Body in Culture, Technology and Society Contributor(s): Shilling, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761971246 ISBN-13: 9780761971245 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: This is an impressive book by one of the leading social theorists working in the field of body studies. It provides a critical summation of theoretical and substantive work in the field to date, while also presenting a powerful argument for a corporeal realism in which the body is both generative of the emergent properties of social structure and a location of their effects. Its scope and originality make it a key point of reference for students and academics in body studies and in the social and cultural sciences more generally' - "Ian Burkitt, Reader in Social Science, University of Bradford " Chris Shilling is as always a lucid guide through the dense thickets of the "sociology of the body," and his chapters on the fields of work, sport, eating, music and technology brilliantly show how abstract theoretical debates relate to the real world of people's lives' - "Professor Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin " What we are offered here is... a step change in perspective on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain... This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' -" Acta Sociologica " This is a milestone in the sociology of the body. The book offers the most comprehensive overview of the field to date and an innovative framework for the analysis of embodiment. It is founded on a revised view of the relation of classical works to the body. It argues that the body should be read as a multi-dimensional medium for the constitution of society. Upon this foundation, the author constructs a series of analyses of the body and the economy, culture, sociality, work, sport, music, food andtechnology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| LCCN: 2005295718 |
| Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.2" W x 9.26" (0.87 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an impressive book by one of the leading social theorists working in the field of body studies. It provides a critical summation of theoretical and substantive work in the field to date, while also presenting a powerful argument for a corporeal realism in which the body is both generative of the emergent properties of social structure and a location of their effects. Its scope and originality make it a key point of reference for students and academics in body studies and in the social and cultural sciences more generally′ - Ian Burkitt, Reader in Social Science, University of Bradford Chris Shilling is as always a lucid guide through the dense thickets of the sociology of the body, and his chapters on the fields of work, sport, eating, music and technology brilliantly show how abstract theoretical debates relate to the real world of people′s lives′ - Professor Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin What we are offered here is... a step change in perspective on body matters that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain... This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read′ - Acta Sociologica This is a milestone in the sociology of the body. The book offers the most comprehensive overview of the field to date and an innovative framework for the analysis of embodiment. It is founded on a revised view of the relation of classical works to the body. It argues that the body should be read as a multi-dimensional medium for the constitution of society. Upon this foundation, the author constructs a series of analyses of the body and the economy, culture, sociality, work, sport, music, food and technology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shilling, Chris: - Chris Shilling is Professor of Sociology in SSPSSR at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Having completed a BA in Politics and an MA in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, he was awarded his PhD in the Sociology of Education at The Open University. Growing increasingly dissatisfied with cognitive conceptions of agency and disembodied theories of social and cultural processes, his research and writing from the late 1980s has sought to contribute to the embodiment of sociology and sociological theory and to promote the interdisciplinary field of 'body studies.' He has lectured widely in Europe and North America, has written on embodiment in relation to a wide range of substantive issues (from religion, archaeology, sport, music and health and illness, to work, survival, technology and consumer culture) and his publicationshave been translated into a number of different languages. Chris Shilling's major books include Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity (Sage, 2008), Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects (editor, Blackwells, 2007), The Body in Culture, Technology and Society (Sage, 2005) and, with Philip A. Mellor, The Sociological Ambition (Sage, 2001) and Re-forming the Body. Religion, Community and Modernity (Sage, 1997). He is currently editor of The Sociological Review Monograph Series and is continuing to research and write on embodiment as a foundational grounding for social thought and social research. |
