Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body
| By: | Waskul, Dennis, Professor |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754647263 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409490616 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The body and experiences of embodiment have generated a rich and diverse sociological literature. This volume articulates and illustrates one major approach to the sociology of the body: symbolic interactionism, an increasingly prevalent theoretical base of contemporary sociology derived from the pragmatism of writers such as John Dewey, William James, Charles Peirce, Charles Cooley and George Herbert Mead.
The authors argue that, from an interactionist perspective, the body is much more than a tangible, corporeal object