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1 online resource (295 pages) |
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CRESC |
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CRESC
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: vulgar object, vulgar method; The absent 'class body'; Beyond the 'topical body'; Questions of method; The structure of the book; PART I Social order, body order; 1 The body in social space; 'Analysis situs'; An 'order of coexistence'; Probable class, actual class; Distinct distinctions; Gendered bodies; Social space, sexual space; 2 Classifying bodies, classified bodies, class bodies; Incorporation; Comprehension; History-in-bodies; A sense of place; A 'class unconscious' |
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'Modus operandi' and 'opus operatum'Being and seeming; 'I can', 'it can', 'I must'; The two bodies; Transcendence and negation; 3 The body in social time; Time for pain; Pain and prevention; The causality of the probable; Investment; Time-perspective and self-control; PART II Modes of embodiment; 4 The perceptible body; Sociology's fear of fat; Deconstructing the obesity epidemic -- Social class and body-mass; The social perception of body-weight; Average and norm; Diet and diaita; Hysteresis-effects; Current body, dream body; Hexis and cathexis; A moral physiognomy of class |
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A ""disease of the will""5 The hungry body; The (social) sense of the senses; Substance and function; Style and form; Matter and manner; Elective austerity and conspicuous consumption; The social inertia of food-tastes; 6 The playful body; Semantic elasticity; The need for sports; A social morphology of sporting-preferences; Form and force; Hard and soft; The sacred and the profane; PART III Class bodies; 7 Relaxation in tension; Conspicuous simplicity; 'Askesis' and 'aesthesis'; Negative cultivation; 8 Tension in relaxation; Inner tension; Body-images; A Protestant aesthetic |
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Doxa and orthodoxyBeing-perceived; Situating reflexivity; 9 Necessity incarnate; The labouring body; A body-for-others; The de-narcissized body; The ""unregulated"" body; Conclusion: the visible and the invisible; A view from nowhere; Expansion and compression; Negative discrimination; Distinctions in the flesh; Methodological appendices; Appendix 1: description of primary and secondary data sources; Appendix 2: constructing social space; Appendix 3: figure rating scale; Appendix 4: additional tables and figures; References; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Social classes.
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Equality -- Social aspects
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Social Class
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social classes.
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Equality -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Social classes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317302056 |
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1317302052 |
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