′Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks... What we
are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in
perspectives 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 Shilling at his creative best…these are
seminal observations of the classical theories drawn together as never
before. Moreover, as a framework [this monograph] provides a genuinely
new and fertile way of reconsidering not just classical sociology but
contemporary forms as well′ - Sport, Education & Society ′This is
a comprehensive, theoretically sophisticated, and ambitious treatise
on the body that draws from, and applies, both classical and
contemporary sociological theory in a manner that is innovative and
thought-provoking. This book is engaging and thought-provoking, but
Shilling′s greatest achievement is his ability to illustrate the
importance and continued relevance of classical and contemporary
sociological theory to real world concerns. It is a book worthy of
widespread attention. It reinvigorated my interest in the sociological
classics and contained countless nuggets of interesting information
that led me to conclude that it would be a worthy book to recommend to
a broad sociological audience′ - Teaching Sociology ′Shilling′s
book (like his earlier The Body and Social Theory) is crucial
reading…a further valuable contribution in a field where he has
provided so much′ - Theory & Psychology ′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 I find very useful and
without any doubt valuable, not only in Shilling′s The Body in
Culture, Technology and Society but in his work in general, is the
breadth and profoundness of his discussion about the body…the style
Shilling maintains is crucial for further development of the sociology
of the body as a discipline, for it provides us with a rich
intellectual environment about the body′ - Sociology ′For any
colleague wanting to have a clear idea of how studies of the body can
be empirically grounded as well as theoretically ′rich′, Chris
Shilling′s The Body in Culture, Technology and Society , is the book
to read. To my mind it offers the best account thus far of not only
how social action is embodied and must be recognised as such but also
of how social structures condition and shape embodied subjects in a
variety of social arenas... This is wonderful insightful ′stuff′
– the ideas and intricate thoughts of a scholar such as Shilling who
has been immersed in thinking about the complexities of the body in
society as well as sociology for a number of years′ - Sociology of
Health and Illness 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.
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ISBN
9781446236369
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Sage Publications Ltd (UK)
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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