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Bryan S. Turner · 2008
A sociological exploration of human embodiment and the body in society, examining the relationship between corporeality, social theory, and cultural practice across topics including religion, medicine, sexuality, and human vulnerability.
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What this book knows
The body is not backdrop but foundation: human vulnerability, desire, and society are inseparable from corporeal existence.
embodiment
existing theories of social action have a cognitive bias, ignoring the corporeality of human life and the embodiment of the social actor
BSES-RC-002human vulnerability refers to both physical and psychological harm — our exposure to the physical world, to moral damage or spiritual threat
BSES-RC-021desire
the variability of human sexuality must be channelled into socially constructed routine patterns if social stability is to be maintained
BSES-RC-071the relationship between my pleasure and my body is irreducibly immediate and intimate; most pleasures involve the body through physical sensations
BSES-RC-057religion-and-sex
Weber's analysis of Christian asceticism is in fact about the rationalization of desire — monasticism, celibacy, monogamy, castration
BSES-RC-031the body — 'the flesh' — is deep-rooted in Christian symbolism of sinfulness; its frailty and decay are inevitable physical markers of fallen humanity
BSES-RC-0766 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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