scholarly journals Whose Body Is It?: The body as physical capital in a techno-society

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon R. Bradley-Munn ◽  
Katina Michael
Keyword(s):  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body

scholarly journals Persepsi Sosial Terhadap Komodifikasi Tubuh Perempuan (Studi Kasus Sales Promotion Girl Di Mall Ratu Indah Makassar)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Rusni Hadji ◽  
Nurdin Nurdin ◽  
Lukman Ismail
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Research Procedure

Public spaces such as malls and entertainment venues have been visited by many people. This opportunity is used by industries engaged in the service sector to make a profit. Not a few agencies have created jobs to recruit employees in the field of promotional services. Promotion services work in the informal sector with the skills required by agencies to recruit women as sales promotions. SPG is used as a shortcut for some women to get a job. Women have a gentle attitude and are good at seducing with their physical capital, beautiful faces and eloquence in offering products to customers. SPG is used as the main job for women to make it easier to earn money. Most of the women who only go to school until they finish Senior High School (SMA) or Vocational High School (SMK) choose to work as SPGs. This job does not require high skills, only with a beautiful physique and face. This gives the view that the body and face are working capital as an SPG. The company benefits more from the SPG because it is seen as being able to boost product sales. In this study, the type of research used is a qualitative approach, namely "a research procedure that produces descriptive data in the form of writing and behavior that can be observed from the subject itself. The results of this study are 1) The concept of the body as a commodity is a common symptom in Makassar City. The body is likened to a commodity that has a selling value. As a commodity, the body can be converted just as the concept of the body is physical capital which can be converted into economic, cultural and social capital; 2) Some people view the SPG profession as a negative profession. because seen from the symbols attached to the SPG, for example, from wearing sexy clothes, make-up, to more aggressive and coercive verbal language when offering products and also the profession of SPG is a profession that only relies on beauty; 3) Negative stereotypes have been embedded in some societies so that what the general public perceives about SPG is almost the same.

scholarly journals Running for Success: Marathon Boom and Middle-Class Bodies in Estonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-463
Author(s):  
Toomas Gross
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Physical Strain ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Long Distance Running ◽  
Consumption Practices

Since the turn of the millennium, the number of Estonians running at least one marathon a year has grown nearly twentyfold. This paper links the marathon boom in Estonia to novel ideas about the “good life” among a subset of the country’s middle class, also situating the phenomenon in the broader context of post-1991 socio-economic changes. Drawing on fifty narrative interviews with recreational runners and a content analysis of various runners’ blogs, the article pays special attention to “runners’ bodies.” Recreational marathoners consciously put their bodies at the service of their “selves” by submitting the body to regular physical strain, which fits with their distinctively middle-class ideals of self-discipline, motivation, diligence, and perseverance. But runners’ bodies are also “bodies for others”—they not only encapsulate but also display these ideals. Approaching runners’ bodies as “bodies for selves” and as “bodies for others,” the article makes two arguments. Firstly, a fit body as physical capital and the “purposeful suffering” that long-distance running almost inevitably leads to have recently shifted to the core of living a “good life” in the case of growing numbers of the Estonian middle class. Secondly, the “others” for middle-class runners’ bodies are first and foremost the sedentary and generally overweight bodies of their own class. For a subset of the Estonian middle class, a slim and fit running body, in combination with changed consumption practices and reference groups, serves to distinguish themselves from the generalised idea of a middle-class person in today’s Estonia.

‘Speak and Act in a Manly Fashion’: The Role of the Body in the Construction of Men and Masculinity in Primary Teacher Education in Ireland

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dónal O'Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
College Staff ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Primary Teacher Training

Based on a study of the masculinising practices of a single-sex primary teacher training college in Ireland 1928–38, this paper argues that the body served as the primary means of classification and differentiation in the social construction and regulation of masculinities. Following Connell's body reflexive practice theory that bodies are both agents and objects of practice and that ‘masculinity refers to male bodies but is not determined by male biology’, and Bourdieu's conceptualisation of the body as a form of physical capital as a bearer of symbolic value, produced presented and managed to acquire status and distinction across social fields, this paper demonstrates how the body was used as an object and, to a lesser extent, agent in the masculinisation process at this institution, especially while students practised teaching in Practising Schools under the supervision of college staff.

scholarly journals Auditory and visual sensory modalities in the velodrome and the practice of becoming a track cyclist

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022110213
Author(s):  
Kate Themen ◽  
Cosmin Popan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Track Cycling

The aim of this paper is to explore track cycling through visual and aural sensory modalities. We draw on Pink’s work on emplacement and of the researcher serving an apprenticeship by engaging through first-hand experience and learning track practices and routines in which we reflected on our visual and aural senses to account for understanding the body and the transformations it undergoes when riding track. This speaks to Hockey and Allen-Collinson’s call for a ‘fleshy perspective’ by reintroducing the body into sporting practice. Undertaking an auto-ethnographic method, we use diarised notes drawn from six track cycling sessions to account for sensory experiences by reflecting on aural and visual senses in the context of the skills we acquired during track sessions. In this, the emergent narrative situates the body as a place of contestation and transition, whereby our visual and aural modalities are the senses by which we narrate our improving aptitude, and attained physical capital, on the track.

scholarly journals CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ESSENCE OF THE HUMAN PHYSICAL CAPITAL CONCEPT IN RELATION TO THE FITNESS INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Cuprika ◽  
Andra Fernate ◽  
Leonids Cupriks
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
A Value ◽  
Fitness Industry ◽  
Over Time

A large part of the society perceives the body as a fundamental tool to advance in social life, as a capital in labour relations and in sexual relations as well. The possibility to transform one’s own physical capital into economic, social or cultural capital, which is an opportunity a person receives through carrying out physical activity, is also a value in the field of fitness which is an industry that is worth billions. That is why the aim of this study was to investigate in-depth characterization of the nature of the physical capital concept, linking it to the field of fitness. The study is based on 48 literature sources and scientific articles, 2 of which are in Latvian, 5 in Russian and 41 – in English. The essence of the content of the physical capital concept has been investigated and the connections of notions in different theoretical contexts has been evaluated, starting from the beginning of the physical capital concept. The definitions were grouped in a broader and narrower scope. In the narrower sense, physical capital is a person’s skills and abilities – innate or acquired over time –, which help to perform a specific physical work, move, strengthen or improve physical health and capacity for work. In the broader sense – as values and investments in the body, building of a body in society. In the broader sense of physical capital, the main goal is its transformation into other forms of capital in order to obtain additional benefits or a new status in the society.  

Gender and Bodies

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Kwan ◽  
Trenton M. Haltom
Keyword(s):  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
Gendered Bodies

Scholars from various disciplines (anthropology, gender studies, history, philosophy, and sociology, among others) have written about gender and bodies. The interdisciplinary nature of this topic has resulted in scholarship on many different aspects of the body across the life course. The works included here are foundational to knowledge about the gendered body and particularly the sociology of the body. Moreover, they exhibit intersectionality and begin with the assumption that social constructs such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, and dis/ability intersect with gender to shape life experiences, social outcomes, and self-concept. While there are many areas that fall under the topic of gender and bodies (such as medicalization, sport, disability, gendered violence, sexual practices, and eating disorders) this article focuses particularly on theory and research on the social construction of female and male bodies, as well as bodies that disrupt sex, gender, and sexuality binaries, i.e., intersex and LGBTQ Bodies. Specifically, there is an abundance of scholarship that examines how social and cultural structures patrol normative femininities and hegemonic masculinities thereby reinforcing binary understandings of sex and gender. Nonetheless, there is some work that emphasizes the undoing of gender, social activism, and embodied resistance. Writings on gendered constructs and the body also examine how some bodies are privileged over others, showing a body hierarchy based on, for example, beauty, skin tone, and body size that furnishes some people with physical capital while disadvantaging others. Finally, the article acknowledges research and theory that engages labor-related processes about the body; the body as a modification project (including body building, tattooing, and Cosmetic Surgery); and the role of medical and other technologies on gendered bodies and lives.

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