The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory

by Bryan S. Turner

Originally published in 1984, The Body and Society flew against prevailing trends which asked sociologists to understand society in terms of abstractions such as structure, class and function. Instead, in a series of dazzling chapters, Bryan S Turner argued that the body should be the axis of sociological analysis. The Second Edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new introduction which analyzes the social changes which have given a special prominence to the body in contemporary social theory, and develops Turner′s own notion of a `somatic society′, a society within which major political and personal problems are both problematized in the body and expressed through it. Complementing the introdu

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, Theory, Bodies, Philosophy, Religion, Politics

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First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Elari · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book made me grumpy.

[Susie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Littered with unnecessary word salad and awful portrayal of anorexia - as a former anorexic I have a lot to say against this writing