The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew

1987 ◽  
pp. 83-106 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Thomas Malthus ◽  
Henry Mayhew

scholarly journals Body experience in the east-slavonic culture tradition

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Ye. I. Kirilenko
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
Culture Tradition

In the modern science, the body is an object of interest not only to the natural science and medicine, but also the humanities. Of special interest, in particular, for the medical discourse, is the ethnic body experience. The paper reveals features of the body experience in the east-slavonic culture from the analysis of the mythological tradition. This experience is characterized by the pronounced interest and ambivalent attitude to the body’s life, natural body standards; and emotional intensity. The experience of the social body is of highest priority in the culture.

The Japanese Village in the Seventeenth Century

1952 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Vital Function ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
The Middle Ages

As in the Middle Ages in the West, so in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868) men were fond of explaining the hierarchical society in which they lived by comparing it to an organism. Social classes, Confucian scholars said, were like parts of the body: each had a vital function to perform, but their functions were essentially different and unequal in value. In this scheme the peasants were second in importance only to the ruling military class. Just as the samurai officials were the brains that guided other organs, so the peasants were the feet that held the social body erect. They were the “basis of the country,” the valued producers whose labor sustained all else. But, as a class, they tended innately to backsliding and extravagance. Left alone they would consume more than their share of the social income, ape the manners and tastes of their betters, and even encroach upon the functions of other classes to the perilous neglect of their own. Only the lash of necessity and the sharp eye of the official could hold them to their disagreeable role. They had to be bound to the land; social distinctions had to be thrown up around them like so many physical barriers; and, to remove all temptation to indolence and luxury, they had to be left only enough of what they produced to let them continue producing.

The multispatial governance of social and economic policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Bob Jessop
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics Of The Body

This chapter distinguishes Foucault’s approach from the work of Anglo-Foucauldian scholars. The latter adopted a microsocial perspective, focused on the programmes and rationalities of government that work across multiple alliances between different actors, and argued for bottom-up civil society responsibilization. Foucault was not only state-phobic but also suspicious of political action based on civil society. His theoretical interests shifted from the micro-physics of disciplinary society and its anatomo-politics of the body to the more general strategic codification of a plurality of discourses, practices, technologies of power, and institutional ensembles around a specific governmental rationality concerned with the social body (bio-power) in a consolidated capitalist society. This is reflected in the statification of government and the governmentalization of the state. This led to his analyses of sovereignty, territorial statehood, and state power and the role of civil society in this regard and to less well-substantiated claims about their articulation to the logic of capital accumulation.

scholarly journals The bodies of Zuzanna Ginczanka

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (57) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kumala
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ambiguous Position

The article focuses on the representations of the body in Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poetry. There are four crucial poetic constructions in this respect that need to be properly contextualized: the Jewish body (Ginczanka’s beauty and stigma, her legendary eyes), the lyrical body (the feminine origin of her poetry, its erotic, emancipatory character, the meaning of victim and revenge themes), the individual and the social body (the ways of shaping her identity and some of her key performative gestures), and, fi nally, the visual body (the poet’s public image in the past and now). Aside from Bożena Keff’s and Agata Araszkiewicz’s discussions of Jewishness in Ginczanka’s poetry, the article refers to Erving Goffman’s, Jean-Paul Sartre’s and Richard Schechner’s theories to illuminate the complex mechanisms behind Zuzanna Ginczanka’s ambiguous position in the literary and cultural discourse through the years.

Truly Embodied Sociology: Marrying the Social and the Biological?

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Newton
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physiological Analysis ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

This paper explores the relation between sociology and biology through an examination of issues relating to the sociology of the body, emotion and health. Arguments for a ‘biological’, and yet social, body are considered before developing a critique of work on the sociology of the biological body. It is argued that there are a number of difficulties with this latter project. Writers working in this area can be seen to have used rather emotional ploys to advance their promotion of a more ‘biologised’, or ‘material-corporeal’, account of the body, emotion and health. In addition though these writers eschew reductionist, naturalist, and dualist arguments, they nevertheless draw on studies that have some or all of these characteristics. Finally a variety of epistemological and methodological difficulties inherent in physiological analysis and in ‘interviewing’ the body are explored. It is concluded that we still remain near the ‘starting point’ of a sociology of the body that interrelates biology and sociology.

scholarly journals La tortura: todo es cuerpo

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
José Santos Herceg
Keyword(s):  
Central Element ◽  
The Body ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES">En este texto se intenta una aproximación al tema de la tortura desde la perspectiva del cuerpo. De hecho, éste es un elemento central de la tortura, al punto de que se podría decir que en ella todo es cuerpo. Es un arma para los torturadores; el saber acerca del cuerpo es una herramienta tecnológica que puede ser usada para torturar, una suerte de traidor que hace vulnerables a las víctimas. E</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">l cuerpo de la víctima es lo dañado, aunque el daño se extiende también a su familia y al cuerpo social, a la comunidad de las víctimas</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES">Palabras clave: tortura, cuerpo, dictadura, víctima, torturador</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /><em>Torture: all es body</em></span></span></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES">This paper attempts an approach to torture from he perspective of the body. In fact, this a central element of torture, to the point that in it all is body. It is a weapon for the torturers, the knowledge about the body is a technological<br />tool that can be used in torture; it is a sort of traitor, that makes the victims vulnerable. The body of the victim is what is damaged by torture and the damage expands also to the family of the victims, to the social body, and to community.<br /></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES">Keywords: torture, body, dictatorship, victim, torturer</span></span></span></em></p><p> </p>

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