Phipps, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9476-6848 and Bendelow, Gillian (2014) Body, Sociology of the. In: The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1-8

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Abstract

Embodiment is seen as a process rather than a state (doing rather than being), and there is still not one definition of this process. Rather, there are many aspects of embodiment and theories covering them, and in this entry we outline three main approaches which have shaped sociological understandings of embodiment, namely as a site of contestation of power/biopolitics – the politically inscribed body; as a form of capital – the commodified body; and as phenomenological experience – the “lived body.”

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs225
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/12639

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