The Consuming BodySAGE Publications, 1994 M11 11 - 256 páginas This book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. The author explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation i |
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Pasi Falk. existing social theory of the body is that it fails to move beyond the notion of representation and social construction to a genuine understanding of social reciprocity which is the core issue in any sociological perspective ...
Pasi Falk. existing social theory of the body is that it fails to move beyond the notion of representation and social construction to a genuine understanding of social reciprocity which is the core issue in any sociological perspective ...
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... social actor . The characterization of the social actor has been an issue which has dominated the entire development of the social sciences , involving as it does questions about the rationality of social action , the importance or ...
... social actor . The characterization of the social actor has been an issue which has dominated the entire development of the social sciences , involving as it does questions about the rationality of social action , the importance or ...
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... social categories ( class , group ) , self - formation is thematized merely in its social dimension - from the affirmation of social status to the construction of social identity . Taking distance - by symbolic means - from one class ...
... social categories ( class , group ) , self - formation is thematized merely in its social dimension - from the affirmation of social status to the construction of social identity . Taking distance - by symbolic means - from one class ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Body Self and Culture | 10 |
Corporeality and History | 45 |
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