This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal
textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body …

This has been a difficult book to write. Part of this, no doubt, stems from my own limitations or
inadequacies. It's also, I believe, inherent in the very nature of the topic in question and the …

1 The sound of canon-fire 1 Modernity and Elias 1 America and Europe 3 The Organization
of this Book 4 Elias, Foucault, Arendt, Parsons, Bauman 4 Artists and Surveyors 6 Visions of …

With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the 'history of emotions' approach to
South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and …

Figurational sociology is so often said to distance itself from the political issues of the day.
Whilst this is certainly true with regards to the present day, it in no way follows that …

While fashion permeates almost all forms of social life, including such seemingly rationally
inclined and instrumentally governed fields as science and engineering (Blumer, 1968, pp …

En el artículo se analizan las críticas a las teorías de la racionalidad y la acción social que
lleva a cabo Norbert Elias. Con este fin se exponen las semejanzas y diferencias entre su …

Dance is addressed as making significance for what Elias terms the civilizing process of
early modernity through its contribution to the ennoblement of warriors and the pacification …

Habitus is a Latin word meaning “posture of the body,” but it can also be translated as
“behavior.” In social theory, the concept of habitus, as developed by Bourdieu, is one of the …