Showing papers by "Bryan S. Turner published in 1991"

The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory

Abstract: Preface - Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S Turner Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body - Bryan S Turner Bringing Bodies Back In - Arthur Frank On Human Beings and Their Emotions - Norbert Elias a Process-Sociological Essay On the Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen Mennell The Discourse of Diet - Bryan S Turner The Body in Consumer Culture - Mike Featherstone The Midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne' - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education - Donald N Levine The Case of Aikido Bio-politics and Social Policy - Martin Hewitt Foucault's Account of Welfare Genealogy and The Body - Scott Lash Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche The Art of The Body in The Discourse of Postmodernity - Roy Boyne Love's Labour Lost? A Sociological View - Margareta Bertilsson Biographical Boundaries - Graham McCann Sociology and Marilyn Monroe Carmen - or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth - Dick Pels and Aya Crebas The Mask of Ageing - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth Sociological Discourse and The Body - J M Berthelot

Talcott Parsons : theorist of modernity

Abstract: An Introduction to Talcott Parsons - Roland Robertson and Bryan S Turner Theory, Politics and Humanity The American Value System - Victor Lidz A Commentary on Talcott Parsons's Perspective and Understanding A Tentative Outline of American Values - Talcott Parsons Practice Against Theory in American Sociology - Harold J Bershady an Exercise in the Sociology of Knowledge The Structure of Social Action - Mark Gould At Least Sixty Years Ahead of Its Time Influence and Solidarity - Victor Lidz Defining a Conceptual Core for Sociology The Central Significance of 'Religion' in Social Theory - Roland Robertson Parsons as an Epical Theorist Parsons and Modernity - Frank J Lechner An Interpretation Simmel and Parsons Reconsidered - Donald N Levine From Sick Role to Health Role - Arthur W Frank Deconstructing Parsons The Political Orientation of Talcott Parsons - Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen the Second World War and its Aftermath Neo-functionalism and the 'New Theoretical Movement' - Bryan S Turner The Post-Parsonian Rapprochement between Germany and America How to Read Parsons - Bryan S Turner and Roland Robertson

Review Article: Missing bodies – towards a sociology of embodiment

Abstract: C Herzlich and J Pierret, Illness and Self in Society, Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1987, £2050 (cloth), xvi + 271 pp, translated by E Forster W Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1990, £1995 (cloth), x + 313 pp D Leder, The Absent Body, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990, £2795 and £1195, x + 218 pp I Lowy, The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine From Tytus Chalubinski (1820–1889) to Ludwig Fleck (1896–1961), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic publishers, 1990, $7800 and £4400, vii + 287 pp, translated by I Lowy E Martin, The Woman in the Body, a cultural analysis of reproduction, Milton Keynes, the Open University Press, 1989, £2500 and £799, ix + 276 pp M-C Pouchelle, The Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press and Oxford: Polity Press, 1990, $4000 and £3500, vii + 276 pp, translated by R Morris

Further Specification of the Citizenship Concept: A Reply to M. L. Harrison

Abstract: Harrison's generous treatment of my attempt to develop a general theory of citizenship identifies a number of major issues; a detailed answer to all the points which he raises is not possible within the limitations of this reply. In any case, I accept many of the additions and corrections which he recommends for advancing the sociology of citizenship. It appears that the essence of his position is that, in addition to providing a historical understanding of the shifting nature of the concept of citizenship, we should turn our attention to 'the material conditions' which determine citizenship inequalities and that we need to examine 'the differential nature of citizenship experiences' by reference, for example, to class and intra-class differences. Harrison quite correctly notes that ethnic or racial inequalities are crucial, especially in contemporary Britain, for the ways in which different social groups experience citizenship entitlements unequally. These comments suggest that we should examine the experience of citizenship within the life-cycle of the individual in relation to unequal and changing access to scarce resources in a community. Thus, while Harrison appropriately refers to gender and ethnic differences in the experience of citizenship entitlements, he fails to discuss the impact of ageing in the life-cycle of individuals on social membership. In ideal-typical terms, as individuals mature, they acquire greater status within the community as a result of education, employment, or inheritance, which provide the means for possessing property, forming households and creating families. It is this process of increasing reciprocity Which

Patriarchy and Anorexia Nervosa: a Reply to Jan Horsfall

Abstract: In my note on anorexia, I tried to do a number of things: to review the literature on anorexia, to pay tribute to the clinical work of Hilda Bruch, to suggest that we can conceptualise becoming sick as an entry into a language community and specifically to advance the argument that we can regard anorexia ’as an over-determined disease, being the consequence of cultural, social, familial and maturational processes which create &dquo;sick roles&dquo; for anorexic candidates’ (Turner, 1990a, 166). My theoretical proposal was to examine anorexia (and in fact any disease) at three levels: the phenomenological, the social and the societal. I would now argue in more general terms that the complexity of the sociology of disease categories requires ’epistemological pragmatism’ in which a variety of approaches in theory and methods is appropriate, depending on the questions being asked (Turner, 1987, 5). Thus, rather than being forced to select foundationalist or anti-foundationalist perspectives on the question of the social construction of disease, our orientation should depend on the character of the problem at hand. For example, Walter Laqueur (1990), in studying how the discursive representation of sex and gender is an effect of power, is obviously not concerned with the phenomenology of sex, whereas for Drew Leder (1990) the phenomenology of body experience is the centre of his project; by contrast, Emily Martin (1989) is concerned with both the cultural representation of the body and the sociology of the sexual division of labour in human reproduction. The approach depends in part on the nature of the question.