This new, updated edition of the best-selling text provides a critical survey of the field; demonstrates how new developments in have made the body a site for social ...

Turner has provided a major synthesis of his earlier work on the sociology of the body, establishing the idea of embodiment as fundamental to the sociology of health and ...

This volume provides a clear introduction to the significance of the corporeal dimension of life within sociological thought. It outlines the reasons behind this increased ...

The term postmodernist was originally used to describe a cultural trend that opposed the modernist style in art, architecture and design. It has come to be applied to a much ...

A perennial subject for sociologists, nationalism, the focus of this study, is persistent, not merely because of its specific ideological appeal, but because it expresses some ...

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