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Social fluids: Metaphors and meanings of society
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The human body has been a potent and persistent metaphor for social and political relations throughout human history as mentioned in this paper, and different parts of the body have traditionally represented difference social relations.Abstract:
The human body has been a potent and persistent metaphor for social and political relations throughout human history. For example, different parts of the body have traditionally represented differe...read more
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‘I just want permission to be ill’: Towards a sociology of medically unexplained symptoms
TL;DR: It is suggested that an appreciation of the experience of such embodied doubt articulated by people who live with MUS may have a more general applicability to the analysis of social life under conditions of late modernity.
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The greatest benefit to mankind: a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present
TL;DR: Naomi Rogers has written perhaps the most detailed history the authors have of a single medical school, chock-full of information about faculty vitae, student life, buildings, curriculums, trustees, and community relations.
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Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality
Dick Houtman,Birgit Meyer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on different kinds of things that matter for religion, including sacred artifacts, images, bodily fluids, sites, and electronic media, and offer a wide-ranging set of multidisciplinary studies that combine detailed analysis and critical reflection.
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Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders
TL;DR: Using ethnographic and interview data from a US male bodybuilding community, the authors highlights one useful employment: identifying cultural contradictions apparent among individuals striving for either physical or ideological embodiments of gender capital.
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne describe living on the VOLCANO of CIVILIZATION -the Contours of the RISK SOCIETY and the Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society.
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All that is solid melts into air : the experience of modernity
TL;DR: Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
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Sociology beyond societies : mobilities for the twenty-first century
TL;DR: Sociology Beyond Society as mentioned in this paper is a sociological study of mobilities in an increasingly borderless world, focusing on the mobility of people, ideas, images, messages, waste products and money across international borders.
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The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
TL;DR: This the civilizing process sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations that gives the best reasons to read will probably make you feel curious.
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AIDS and Its Metaphors
TL;DR: A sequel to Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor" in the light of AIDS is presented in this article, where the author analyzes the way society has viewed AIDS, as divine retribution, plague or total war and dispels racist ideas that AIDS originates from deepest Africa.