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The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory

Mike Featherstone, +2 more
TLDR
The body in consumer culture has been studied in a wide range of contexts, e.g., the Body in Consumer Culture, Aikido Bio-politics and social policy as mentioned in this paper.
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

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Rethinking authenticity in tourism experience

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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual clarification of the meanings of authenticity in tourist experiences is presented, and three approaches are discussed, objectivism, constructivism, and postmodernism, and the limits of object-related authenticity are also exposed.

The social model of disability and the disappearing body

Bill Hughes, +1 more
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The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a sociology of impairment

Bill Hughes, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1997 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the realignment of the disability/impairment distinction is vital for the identity politics of disability movement and explore the contribution that post-structuralism and phenomenology might make to this end.
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Busy Bodies: Activity, aging, and the management of everyday life

Stephen Katz
- 01 Jun 2000 - 
TL;DR: The authors examines the theoretical and practical aspects of activity in the gerontological field, and considers how activity has also become a keyword in radical and popular vocabularies for narratives of the self.
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Sensitive research topics: netnography revisited

Roy Langer, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how netnography can be applied in order to conduct covert research on sensitive research topics such as cosmetic surgery on the Danish internet message board, and demonstrate that consumers use internet message boards to exchange information and advice about cosmetic surgery.