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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. Zusammenfassung This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature! culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S Turner Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body - Bryan S Turner Bringing Bodies Back In - Arthur Frank On Human Beings and Their Emotions - Norbert Elias a Process-Sociological Essay On the Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen Mennell The Discourse of Diet - Bryan S Turner The Body in Consumer Culture - Mike Featherstone The Midlifestyle of ¿George and Lynne¿ - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education - Donald N Levine The Case of Aikido Bio-politics and Social Policy - Martin Hewitt Foucault¿s Account of Welfare Genealogy and The Body - Scott Lash Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche The Art of The Body in The Discourse of Postmodernity - Roy Boyne Love¿s Labour Lost? A Sociological View - Margareta Bertilsson Biographical Boundaries - Graham McCann Sociology and Marilyn Monroe Carmen - or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth - Dick Pels and Aya Crebas The Mask of Ageing - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth Sociological Discourse and The Body - J M Berthelot ...
