The Classed Body in the Sociological Imagination

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12912949
AutoresVivyan C Adair (Hamilton College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen2
Número5
Páginas1655-1671
Fecha de publicación2008-08-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00135.x
OpenAlexW2164327636
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas21

Class theorists of embodiment in Sociology point to and illuminate both an over‐ and an under‐exposed body and experience that ultimately mark the bodies of the poor as ideologically, discursively and materially abject. In this essay, I map out theories of the bodies of the poor, including those of Marx, Engels, Elias, Bourdieu, Foucault, Donzelot and Adair. I suggest that an understanding of the ways in which the bodies of the poor are positioned as abject can facilitate a flexible and reflexive heuristic through which we can negotiate epistemic shifts between material and discursive categories, as well as providing us with a template through which we can come to understand even the most profoundly abject bodies, those of poor women in a welfare state, as potential sites of embodied agency and resistance, all central to the ethical and holistic study of sociology

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Habitus · Ideology · Politics · Reflexivity · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Structure and agency · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Ecology