Title: Educating the Body: Physical Capital and the Production of Social Inequalities
Abstract: This paper seeks to challenge the marginal status of the body in sociology by examining the place of `the physical' in the production of social inequalities. After reviewing briefly Bourdieu's concept of embodied capital, I seek to extend his analysis by examining some recent work which looks at gender and the body-society relationship. It will be argued that a social analysis of the body is central to understanding the production of gender inequalities, and that sociologists should take more seriously the multiple ways in which bodies enter into the construction of social inequalities.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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