Author: Joel James Shuman
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587431270
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
Reclaiming the Body
Author: Joel James Shuman
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587431270
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587431270
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A doctor and a theologian explore the relationship between Christian faith and medicine, encouraging a more biblical view of health and health care by individuals and churches
The Body in Everyday Life
Author: Sarah Nettleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134717539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes:- * physical and emotional bodies * illness and disability * gender * ageing. A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, a field previously dominated by theoretical or philosophical accounts.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134717539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes:- * physical and emotional bodies * illness and disability * gender * ageing. A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, a field previously dominated by theoretical or philosophical accounts.
The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
Author: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333724316
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333724316
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
The Body and Everyday Life
Author: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134329245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society. In turn, these corporeal theories have implications for social relations in an era of new technologies and global market economies. The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body. It uses case studies in performance practices to examine the key concepts, methods and critical insights gained from this area. It includes sections on: ethnographies of the body bodies of performance performing gender the ageing performing body. This book clearly illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, and considers the negative and positive implications for the development of future socio-cultural analysis in the field. It will be an invaluable introduction for students of sociology, body studies, gender studies, dance and performance, and cultural studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134329245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society. In turn, these corporeal theories have implications for social relations in an era of new technologies and global market economies. The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body. It uses case studies in performance practices to examine the key concepts, methods and critical insights gained from this area. It includes sections on: ethnographies of the body bodies of performance performing gender the ageing performing body. This book clearly illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, and considers the negative and positive implications for the development of future socio-cultural analysis in the field. It will be an invaluable introduction for students of sociology, body studies, gender studies, dance and performance, and cultural studies.
Gender and Everyday Life
Author: Mary Holmes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134098316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past; and how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures; Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different ways of thinking and learning to ‘do’ gender. Key sociological and feminist ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft; and from symbolic interactionism to second wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler. Gender and Everyday Life illustrates gender with a range of familiar and contemporary examples: everything from nineteenth century fashions in China and Britain, to discussions of what Barbie can tell us about gender in America, to the lives of working women in Japan. This book will be of great use and interest to students to gender studies, sociology and feminist theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134098316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past; and how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures; Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different ways of thinking and learning to ‘do’ gender. Key sociological and feminist ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft; and from symbolic interactionism to second wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler. Gender and Everyday Life illustrates gender with a range of familiar and contemporary examples: everything from nineteenth century fashions in China and Britain, to discussions of what Barbie can tell us about gender in America, to the lives of working women in Japan. This book will be of great use and interest to students to gender studies, sociology and feminist theory.
The Internet in Everyday Life
Author: Barry Wellman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470777389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470777389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.
Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life
Author: Deborah Jean Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198836813
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Brown and Normore show how Descartes accounted for the complex and diverse objects of human experience within his metaphysical system. They argue that, far from reducing them all to two basic categories of substance, mind and body, he recognized irreducible composites that resist reduction and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198836813
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Brown and Normore show how Descartes accounted for the complex and diverse objects of human experience within his metaphysical system. They argue that, far from reducing them all to two basic categories of substance, mind and body, he recognized irreducible composites that resist reduction and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.
The Body in Everyday Life
Author: Sarah Nettleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134717547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Empirical study - most studies are theoretical ie no direct competition The book deals with a highly topical subject - the sociology of the body and embodiment is an expanding field within the social sciences, eg, the British Sociology Assoc annual conference 1998, has 'Making Sense of The Body' as it's theme Contributors are leaders in the field especially Emily Martin at Princeton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134717547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Empirical study - most studies are theoretical ie no direct competition The book deals with a highly topical subject - the sociology of the body and embodiment is an expanding field within the social sciences, eg, the British Sociology Assoc annual conference 1998, has 'Making Sense of The Body' as it's theme Contributors are leaders in the field especially Emily Martin at Princeton
The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life
Author: Leszek Koczanowicz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031448332
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces – in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031448332
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces – in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change.
The Sociology of Health and Illness
Author: Sarah Nettleton
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745628281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This reader brings together recent writing on health, illness and health care in contemporary society. It emphasizes the empirical nature of medical sociology and its relationship with the development of sociological theory.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745628281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This reader brings together recent writing on health, illness and health care in contemporary society. It emphasizes the empirical nature of medical sociology and its relationship with the development of sociological theory.