The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory - Couverture souple

Turner, Bryan S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803988095 ISBN 13 : 9780803988095

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Originally published in 1984, The Body and Society

flew against prevailing trends which asked sociologists to understand society in terms of abstractions such as structure, class and function. Instead, in a series of dazzling chapters, Bryan S Turner argued that the body should be the axis of sociological analysis.

The Second Edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new introduction which analyzes the social changes which have given a special prominence to the body in contemporary social theory, and develops Turner's own notion of a `somatic society', a society within which major political and personal problems are both problematized in the body and expressed through it. Complementing the introdu

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803988095
• ISBN 13: 9780803988095
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible