Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/yBDRB5 The Body and Social Theory By: Shilling Chris Publisher: Sage Publications (UK) Print ISBN: 9780857025333, 0857025333 eText ISBN: 9781446285022 Edition: 3rd Format: PDF Available from $ 44.00 USD SKU 9781446285022 Unrivalled in its clarity and coverage, this sparkling new edition of Chris Shilling's classic text is a masterful account of the emergence and development of body matters in sociology and related disciplines. A timely, well reasoned response to current concerns and controversies across the globe, it provides chapter-by-chapter coverage of the major theories, approaches and studies conducted in the field. Each chapter has been revised and updated, with new discussions of 'actor-network theory', bodywork, pragmatism, the global resurgence of religious identities, 'new genetics', biological citizenship, neuroscience, and figurations of the living and dead. Packed full of critical analysis and relevant empirical studies the book engages with the major classical and contemporary theories within body studies including the: naturalistic, interactionist, constructionist, feminist, structuralist, phenomenological, and realist. Original, logical and indispensable this is a must-have title for students and researchers engaged with the study of the body. Additional ISBNs 9786612262753, 9781446236376, 9781848609464, 9781446268810, 9780585342528, 9781446290514, 6612262753, 1446236374, 1848609469, 1446268810, 0585342520, 1446290514, 9780857025333, 9780803985858, 9780803985865, 9780857025326, 0857025333, 0803985851, 080398586X, 0857025325, 9780857025333, 9780803985858, 9780803985865, 0857025333, 0803985851, 080398586X