Apologies for cross-posting. Please consider submitting an abstract to
the sessions of the Research Committee for the Body in the Social
Sciences, in Buenos Aires, 1-4 August. I am cutting and pasting the
session chaired by myself and Dr. Jacqueline Low, below. Please note
that the abstracts are to be submitted on-line, through the link below,
and the deadline is December 15, 2011.
http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/rc/rc.php?n=RC54
Session Five
From Embodied Action to Embodied Theory: The Body in Society
Organizers and Chairs
Claudia MALACRIDA, University of Lethbridge, Canada,
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Jacqueline LOW, University of New Brunswick, Canada,
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A recurring debate within the sociology of the body concerns whether or
not a true sociology of the body requires a recasting of sociological
theory rather than merely the marking out of a substantive area for the
body within sociology that does not change or challenge the sociological
perspective. As Goffman (1972) pointed out in his presidential address
to the American Sociological Association, "The Interaction Order," we
can not act without our bodies. Thus sociology must account for the body
and over the past decade, the body has been reinserted into sociological
research and theory with considerable vigour. The classic works of
Goffman and Foucault have been re-examined for their embodied
perspectives and current scholarship has continued working towards
linking corporeal expe-rience to social processes, systems, and
structures that permit sociologists of the body to understand the
workings of power, interactions between social actors, and the ways that
social norms and roles operate. This session invites papers that explore
the inextricable connections between the lived body and the body as a
set of social experiences; insights into the body as a site of social
control, and examinations of the body as a vehicle for the expression
and consumption of culture.
Kind regards,
Claudia Malacrida
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
University of Lethbridge
UHall A-890, 4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta
Canada T1K 3M4
Tel: (403) 329-2738
Fax: (403) 329-2085
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Web: http://directory.uleth.ca/users/claudia.malacrida?no_headers=1
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