scholarly journals THE BODY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: SOME QUALIFICATIONS ON THE ‘WARMTH AND INTIMACY’ OF BODILY SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

2012 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun GALLAGHER
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Body

Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Tom Scott-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Nutritional Science

This chapter explains how theories of gelatin and osmazome were eventually replaced by a more modern approach to the diet. It illustrates this change by comparing two very similar products that emerged over the space of just a decade: a substance called Osmazome Food, which was promoted by Alexis Soyer, and one known as Extractum Carnis, or “extract of meat,” which was promoted by the founder of modern biochemistry, Justus Liebig. These two products were essentially the same, but were marketed in radically different ways: the former framed by classical dietetics; the latter by modern nutritional science. The chapter shows how classical dietetic tradition, which had spread throughout Europe in the Renaissance, died away with modern biochemistry, and Liebig's science shifted attention inside the body. This had four main implications which profoundly changed how food was judged, how nutritional authority was conducted, how food was removed from its social context, and how food became a tool of progress.

scholarly journals Criza Corporalităţii În Poetica Lui Ilarie Voronca

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Alexandru Foitoș
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to highlight the vanguardist poetical universe of Ilarie Voronca, focusing on the construction of corporeal representations. The poetics of corporeality is associated with the concept of “crisis”, the latter being reverberated in the vanguard lyrical works as an effect of the historical and social context of the 20th century, which is the First World War. As a result, the consequences of this context bring to the vanguard writers poetical substance, which encapsulates the body and the disease, these two being transposed into several eerie, radical and shocking images in Ilarie Voronca’s poetics. This paper is going to demonstrate the existence of several corporeal representations in Ilarie Voronca’s poems, which are mainly represented by the vulnerable body, viewed as a limit and as the diseased/the suffering, proving that the crisis of corporeality is the effect of the historical conflagration at the beginning of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Expressive Wearables

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Anand Epp
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Future Design

Self-expression is a vital practice for a functioning social life. Wearables have become expressive everyday products, while studies showed how physical collocation can be an opportunity for social technology. This article identifies a perspective for future design of wearables as an extension of the body in its social context: designing for diversity in expression with respect to social boundaries. The collected literature demonstrates the development of new forms of expressive wearables that challenges norms of dress and three groups of participatory methods enable re-search into everyday life practices. The two initial studies—inquiring into everyday life and exploring the wearable design for new practices—exemplify these methods and point a way forward with a focus for design on distinct practices of self-expression.

Interpreting Map Art with a Perspective Learned from J.M. Blaut

2006 ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Varanka
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Mapping Techniques

Map art has been mentioned only briefly in geographic or cartographic literature, and has been analyzed almost entirely at the interpretive level. This paper attempts to define and evaluate the cartographic value of contemporary map-like art by placing the body of work as a whole in the theoretical concepts proposed by J.M. Blaut and his colleagues about mapping as a cognitive and cultural universal. This paper discusses how map art resembles mapping characteristics similar to those observed empirically in very young children as described in the publications of Blaut and others. The theory proposes that these early mapping skills are later structured and refined by their social context and practice. Diverse cultural contexts account for the varieties, types, and degrees of mapping behavior documented with time and geographic place. The dynamics of early mapping are compared to mapping techniques employed by artists. The discipline of fine art serves as the context surrounding map artists and their work. My visual analysis, research about the art and the artists, and interviews with artists and curators form the basis of my interpretation of these works within varied and multiple contexts of late 20th century map art.

Headbob displays signal sex, social context and species identity in a Liolaemus lizard

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalin S. Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Anterior Part ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
The Social

Abstract Animal communication has a key role in animals and identifying the signals’ function is crucial. Most lizards communicate with each other through visual signals with headbob displays, which are up-and-down movements of the head or the anterior part of the body. In the present work, I described and analysed the headbob displays of Liolaemus pacha lizards in their natural habitat. Specifically, the objectives were to describe the form of headbobs, to analyse their structure and to compare between sexes and social contexts. Adult lizards were video-recorded, registering the sex and the social context, classified as broadcast, same-sex and female-male interactions. The form and structure of sequences and headbobs were obtained. To evaluate the effect of sex and social context on the structure of headbob sequences and on headbob bouts, generalized linear mixed models were made. Intersexual differences were found in headbob display frequency and in the structure of headbob sequences. Lizards in same-sex context made sequences with more bouts, shorter intervals, headbob bouts of longer duration and higher amplitude than broadcast and female-male context. Presence of concurring behaviour such as lateral compression, gular expansion, and back arching occurred simultaneously with headbobs in same-sex context. Liolaemus pacha made four different headbob bout forms, and males were characterised by using bouts A and B, whereas females used bouts D more frequent. Sex and social context influenced only the structure of bouts A and B. The results showed that bouts A and B might be multi-component signals and non-redundant.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN OBESITAS DENGAN CITRA DIRI DAN HARGA DIRI PADA WARGA DI DESA GAJAHWONGAN CANDEN SAMBI BOYOLALI

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Dwi Ningsih ◽  
Aan Jana
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Body ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Self ◽  
The People

AbstractOverwight and obesity could be defined as over accumulation of the human bodyfat. Fatover accumulation could be more than 50% than total of bodyweight is consequency inseriouse patologies happened. When growing old, it is declining normally the bodymetabolism and cause the bodyfat storing. Personal views and attitude to effects infeeding. In every person feeding could be effected by some conditions as mood, mentally,personality, self esteem and body image, perseption in bodyshape that be affected byculture, external factors and social context in attitude towards feeding. Regarding of thebackground, the researcher interested to do a study the relation of the obesity with thebody image and the self-esteem on the people of Gajahwongan Village Canden SambiBoyolali. Purpose of the study to know the relation the obesity with the body image andthe self- esteem on the people of Gajahwongan Village Canden Sambi Boyolali.Subjects the 38 obesity villager of Gajahwongan Village Canden Sambi Boyolali. Thesampling technique to be used is saturated sampling inwhich all of the population to beused as sample.The result of multivariat test by double regresi logistic test showed the Negelkerke valueR Square 34,8%. Conclusion of the Research result shows that the obesity variable beaffected by 34,8% variable of the body image and the self-esteem and the rest balance65,2% variable be affected by external of research.Keywords: Obesity, Body Image and Self-Esteem

Mobile Devices

2011 ◽  
pp. 205-220
Author(s):  
Luisa Paraguai
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Spatial Domains ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Modes Of Interaction ◽  
Bodily States

The chapter is concerned with the mobile technology and its interventions on the perception of the body and the space, demanding new behavioural codes and evoking other communication patterns. This technology enables users to be always connected, creating other practices of sociability and composing the urban landscape and the body space with digital contexts. So, the space occupied by mobile users is no longer physical or virtual, but hybrid. After a brief introduction about hybrid spaces, some theoretical references configure the idea that mobile technology determines specific modes of interaction, emphasising a ritual dimension. The mobile users have started to perform the same body gestures and bounded intimacies in a social context that configure a specific new bodily spatiality. Some artistic projects will be presented pointing out some aspects of significant social mobile uses, transforming users bodily states and spatial domains.

Conclusion

Enthusiasm ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Monique Scheer
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Analytical Term ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Religious Enthusiasm

The concluding chapter makes that case that the concept of “enthusiasm” presented in this study might be useful as an analytical term, to be applied in further study beyond the confines of the religious context. Conviction about something always enlists the body and emotions for its maintenance and reinvigoration, which is to say that it is always also enthusiastic—but this enthusiasm takes on different styles due to a combination of ideology (what emotions are and how they work) and taste or preference, which is linked to social context. Observing that a reactivated reticence toward political emotion in Germany in response to the rise in right-wing populism reprises many of the patterns from debates over religious enthusiasm from previous centuries, the chapter reflects on the relations between a number of terms which, in binary constellations, find themselves on the other side of “rationality,” which has led us to think of them as naturally grouped together: emotion, belief, religion, and—recalling Weber—charisma, enchantment, presence. The chapter suggests that enthusiasm is one of these terms, one that captures how conviction enchants people.

Sexuality Across the Life Course

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari M. Blumenstock ◽  
John DeLamater
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Body ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Sexual Expression ◽  
Biopsychosocial Perspective ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact

Sexuality is a multidimensional aspect of human life that includes sexual behaviors, sexual feelings, and sexual orientation (see the separate Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology article “Sexualities” by Nancy Fischer). Sexual expression is influenced by psychological factors such as attitudes, emotions, and the learned residues of past experience, as well as social factors such as social norms and laws, and one’s social identities and relationships, including (potential) partners and social networks. Sexuality and sexual expression also have a biological base, as genetic inheritance and the resulting anatomy and physiology of the human body set the parameters of human sexual behavior, both solo and partnered. Thus, we need a biopsychosocial perspective to incorporate the relevant influences on an individual’s sexual expression and lifestyle. Sexuality and its expression play critical roles throughout an individual’s life. Scholars have often focused on sexuality in a single stage of life—childhood, adolescence, adulthood, later life—or within a specific type of relationship—noncommitted (i.e., casual or “hookups”), premarital, marital, divorced, cohabiting. In reality, sexuality undergoes a continuous process of development from birth to death. Thus, in addition to a biopsychosocial perspective, we need a perspective that has the breadth to encompass this lifelong process. The life course perspective (see the separate Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology article “Life Course” by Deborah Carr) is based upon four key assumptions: 1) lives are embedded in and shaped by historical context; 2) individuals construct their own lives, within the constraints of historical and social context; 3) lives are intertwined through social relationships; and 4) the meaning and impact of a life transition depends on when it occurs. Applied to sexuality, this perspective recognizes the impact of biology via inheritance at birth; biological processes such as puberty, menopause, and aging; and influences related to the body. The historical and social context, particularly extant norms and laws relating to sexual practices, intersecting social identities, and relationships is also important. Sexual expression is further influenced by families, social networks, and intimate relationships. Moreover, within the constraints related to their biological, social, and historical contexts, individuals exercise agency and play an active role in constructing their sexuality. Lastly, life events, and their timing, have a major impact on an individual’s current and later sexuality (e.g., consider the effects of pregnancy at 15 versus 25 versus 45 years of age). Combining an interdisciplinary biopsychosocial perspective on sexuality with a broad life course perspective on the influences on individuals’ lives yields a powerful and nuanced analysis of sexual expression throughout life.

Pause and Forward: Body, Movement, and COVID

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096247
Author(s):  
Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Normal People ◽  
The World ◽  
Asking Questions

The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world at the beginning of 2020. Countries launched into a state of emergency, involving lockdown and quarantine. When social distancing became the “new normal,” people were forced to stay in, working and communicating remotely at home. For many, an oppressive feeling of “being trapped” creates inertia, a strange lack of adequate energy to even move. Bodies no longer function in a social context. Participating in the Massive and Microscopic sense-making project (Markham & Harris) prompted me to engage in autoethnographic self-exploration of my own embodiment in relation to the pandemic, asking questions such as: How do we go about becoming reconnected again? How can we use movement and the body as a curriculum to learn and unlearn ourselves?

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