Body sociology

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The body sociology or sociology of the body is a special sociology in which the interdependence of body and society is examined.

In body sociology it is assumed that social values ​​and norms, systems of knowledge and ideas, structures and technologies shape the human body. The body is understood as a basic category of the sociological theory of action . The central question of this sociology is how social reality is created and represented through physical practices.

literature

  • Ulrike Froschauer / Manfred Lueger (eds.): The social construction of the body , Vienna: Institute for Sociology, 1995, ISBN 3-901298-33-9
  • Robert Gugutzer: Sociology of the Body , Bielefeld: Transcript, 2004 (3rd, unchanged edition 2010), ISBN 978-3-89942-244-3
  • Markus Schroer (Ed.): Sociology of the Body , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2005, ISBN 3-518-29340-0
  • Christian Steuerwald: Body and social inequality: an action-sociological investigation following Pierre Bourdieu and George Herbert Mead , Konstanz: UVK-Verlags-Gesellschaft, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86764-292-7
  • Paula-Irene Villa: " Sexy Bodies. A sociological journey through the sex body ", Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft 2006 (3rd updated edition), ISBN 978-3-531-14481-8