Snips and Snails and Theorists' Tales
Classical Sociological Theory and the Making of ‘Sex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2404476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara L Marshall (Trent University), Bonnie Marshall (0000-0002-0758-7479, Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-155 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Classical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-795X • E-ISSN: 1741-2897 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468795x02002002855 |
| OpenAlex | W2120480972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article locates classical sociology within the context of widely circulating scientific 'truths' about sexed bodies, exploring how the emerging discipline of sociology both drew on and contributed to the construction of a scientifically grounded sexual dimorphism. Through an examination of Durkheim's theory of conjugal society and Weber's writings on the routinization of sexual conduct, the extent to which anxieties about masculine sexuality animated classical conceptions of the shifting mind/body relationship in modernity is illuminated. This is read alongside a shared problematic in the sexual science of the time - concern over the relationship between 'modern' life and male sexual dysfunction. I argue that the manner in which both sociology and sexual science problematized male sexuality as a pivotal issue of modernity is illustrative of the construction of a fundamentally gendered ontology of the social. I argue that the actively internalized struggle of mind and body in sociology's men renders them universally individual, whilst its women are collectively particular, and that this is a legacy with which social theory continues to struggle
Epistemology · Human sexuality · Modernity · Ontology · Science studies · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Capitalism and modernity
Love or greatness
Making Sex
Body matters
Capitalism and Modernity
Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy
Sex and the sociological fathers
Sexual science. The Victorian construction of womanhood
Consuming Desire
Honor, Impotence, and Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Medicine
Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society
The Division of Labour in Society
Whose Body Matters? Feminist Sociology and the Corporeal Turn in Sociology and Feminism
Gut Reactions to Matters of the Heart
Georg Simmel and the Masculinity of Modernity
Hard Science
Max Weber on the Erotic and Some Comparisons With the Work of Foucault
Bohemian Love
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2011 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |