| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Sociology of Body and Embodiment -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Chapter 1: Toward a Sociology of the Body -- Introduction -- Why Bodies? The Case for Body and Embodiment Studies in Sociology -- Why Sociology? The Case for a Disciplinary Approach to an Interdisciplinary Field -- Method -- Multiply Situated Bodies -- Organization of the Book -- Part I: Bodies and Methodology in Sociology -- Part 2: Marginalized Bodies -- Fatness and Body Size -- Aging and Death -- Bodily Sex beyond Binaries -- Modifiable Bodies |
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Part 3: Embodied Sociology -- Bodies and States -- Bodies and Labor -- Bodies and Institutions -- Bodies and Medicine -- Bodies and Violence -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodologies for Categories in Motion -- Three Critiques -- Identities in the Context of Structures -- Intersecting Identities as Relational -- Filling in the Blanks and Opening the Categories -- Mixing Methods -- Writing about the Mess -- References -- Chapter 3: Pregnant Embodiment and Field Research -- Embodiment in Fieldwork: From Presentation of Self to Site of Knowledge |
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The Belly Effect: Embodied Reflexivity and Pregnancy -- Pregnant Embodiment and Studying Fathers -- Pregnant Embodiment in Fathering Spaces: Negotiating Insider/Outsider Status -- "Doing" Gender and Pregnancy in Field Research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Sensory Experience AS Method -- Sensory Encounter I-"Sensing Race" -- Sensory Encounter II- "Sensing Gender" -- Sensory Encounter III-"Sensing Heritage" -- Conclusion-Sensing Research -- References -- Chapter 5: Mixed Methods in Body and Embodiment Research -- A Brief History -- Conceptualizing Mixed Methods |
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Mixed Methods in the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment -- Competing Cultural Meanings about the "Overweight" Body: Complementing, Triangulating, and Developing -- Complementarity -- Triangulation -- Development -- Intersections, Mixed Methods Research, and Lived Embodiment -- Drawbacks and Challenges of Mixed Methods Research -- Efficacy and Contraceptive Use: Making Quantitative Data out of Qualitative Interviews -- Nude Embodiment: Closed and Open-Ended Questionnaire Items -- Moving Forward -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: YouTube Vlogs as Illness Narratives: Methodological Consideration |
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Vlogs as Data -- The Case of Floxies -- A Methodological Roadmap -- Development of Sampling Frame -- Sample Selection -- Methodological Approach -- Coding the Data -- Thinking with and Past Codes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Representations of Fatness by Experts and the Media and How This Shapes Attitudes -- Literature -- Methods -- Formal Interviews -- News Media Sampling -- News Media Coding -- Experiments -- Key Findings -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References |
| Summary |
"The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of "nature" and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies "ought" to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences. These social settings range from personal decisions about medical treatment to programs for teaching police recruits how to use physical force, from social movement tactics to countries' understandings of race and national identity. Many chapters throughout the book offer extended methodological reflections, providing guidance on how to conduct sociological research on the body and, at times, acknowledging the role the authors' own bodies play in developing their knowledge of the research subject"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Marginality, Social.
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Marginality, Social
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boero, Natalie, 1974- editor
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Mason, Katherine, editor
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| LC no. |
2020018280 |
| ISBN |
9780190842505 |
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0190842504 |
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9780190842499 |
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0190842490 |
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9780190842482 |
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0190842482 |
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