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Chris Shilling · 2003
Shilling's sociological theory of the body; sister text to Turner's Body and Society (BSES) but distinct work; behavioral / sociology spine for body-discourse essays.
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What this book knows
The body is neither pure nature nor social text but an unfinished biological-social project shaped by modernity's forces.
embodiment
the body is not only a location for social classifications but is actually generative of social relations and human knowledge
SHIL-BST-RC-005embodied subjects develop direction and purpose on the basis of the practical engagements they have with their surroundings
SHIL-BST-RC-243the physical materiality of the body was not only subordinated to them, but often disappeared over the theoretical horizon
SHIL-BST-RC-216self-and-identity
if our virtual social identity is found to contain features significantly less approved, we become a 'tainted, discounted one'
SHIL-BST-RC-094in conditions of high modernity we are all to some extent 'forced' into adopting reflexively constructed lifestyles to sustain our self-identities
SHIL-BST-RC-189mortality
modernity has made death a radically unnatural occurrence, leaving people alone with their bodies in the face of death
SHIL-BST-RC-200Illuminates
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