Imaginaires du corps et réalités de l’incorporation du social
From a sociological point of view, the body has two institutional faces: it is a cultural representation projecting human or inhuman identities as well as a social construction with interiorisations of patterns and physical incorporation. The article shows these diffe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2002-12-01
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| Series: | Kentron |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1938 |
| Summary: | From a sociological point of view, the body has two institutional faces: it is a cultural representation projecting human or inhuman identities as well as a social construction with interiorisations of patterns and physical incorporation. The article shows these different aspects by referring to the paleolithic age and the Renaissance period; it finally gives some contemporary examples of direct body-modelling by society and what may be called “socio-pathologies”. |
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| ISSN: | 0765-0590 2264-1459 |