Making Bodies : Sexed and Gendered Bodies As Social Institutions

• Autore: Rafanell Irene
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Genesis -- 1.2 Content Description and Outline -- Bibliography -- Part I: General Overview: Introducing the Debate on Social Constructionism of the Body -- Chapter 2: Sociology and the Body -- 2.1 Sociology and Socially Constructed Reality -- 2.2 Social Constructionism and the Body -- 2.2.1 Feminism, Gender and the Body -- 2.2.1.1 The Body from de Beauvoir to Butler -- 2.2.1.2 Early Feminist Theory and the Body -- 2.2.1.3 Ortner and Firestone: Women as the 'Lower Order' -- 2.2.1.4 Mary Daly and Adrienne Rich: The Superiority of Women -- 2.2.1.5 The 'Problem of Biology' and Female Diversity -- 2.2.1.6 Class, Race and Sexual Orientation: Contesting Universalising Feminisms -- 2.2.1.7 The Postmodern Turn: Theorising Diversity, Materiality and Essentialism -- 2.2.1.8 Feminist Ontologies: Woman Versus Women Versus (no) Woman -- 2.2.1.9 Feminist Epistemologies -- 2.2.1.10 Feminist Theories of Power and Power Dynamics -- 2.2.1.11 The 'Politics of Location': A Synthesis -- 2.2.1.12 Feminist Bodies -- 2.2.1.13 Appraisal of the Feminist Constructionist Debate -- 2.2.2 The New Sociology of the Body -- 2.2.3 Symbolic Interactionism: Interacting Bodies -- 2.2.3.1 Goffman on the Presenting of the Self -- 2.2.3.2 Sexual Practices as a Social Construction -- 2.2.3.3 Current Social Constructionist Approaches and the 'Problem' of the Body -- Bibliography -- Part II: Two Social Constructionist Models: Bourdieu Theory of Practice and the Strong Programme -- Introducing Two Social Constructionist Views of Reality: Bourdieu and the Strong Programme -- Bourdieu's Theory of Practice -- The Performative Theory of Social Institutions -- Chapter 3: Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: The Embodiment of Social Reality -- 3.1 Habitus in Focus: A Reconstruction of Dispositions. ; 3.1.1 Habitus Dispositions are Social -- 3.1.2 Habitus Dispositions are Embodied -- 3.1.3 Habitus Dispositions are Durable -- 3.1.4 Habitus Dispositions are Transposable -- 3.1.5 Habitus Dispositions are Inseparable from Action -- 3.1.6 Habitus Dispositions are Relational and Hierarchical -- 3.1.7 Habitus Dispositions are Reproductive -- 3.1.8 Concluding Summary: Habitus Dispositions as Social, Collective, Embodied, Durable and Reproductive -- 3.2 The Logic of Practice: Dispositions, Power Relations and the Ordering Power of Symbolic Violence -- 3.2.1 Habitus and the Field: The Reproductive Logic of Struggle -- 3.2.2 Capitals: Forms and Economic Logic -- 3.2.3 Homology and Heterology: A 'Relationalist' Model -- 3.2.4 Homology and Heterology: Consensus and Reproduction of the Social Structure -- 3.2.5 Reproductive Unconscious Strategies: Agency in Bourdieu's Model -- 3.2.6 Distinction and Field Dynamics as a Struggle: Symbolic Capital and Symbolic Violence -- 3.2.7 Bourdieu's Theory of Power: The Violence of the Symbolic Order -- 3.2.8 Naturalisation: Embodiment, Meritocracy and Doxa -- 3.2.9 Misrecognition: The Symbolic Violence of the Dominant -- 3.2.10 Reproduction, Change and Stability -- 3.2.10.1 Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: The Dialectics of Structural Change -- 3.2.10.2 Hysteresis: Change at the Level of the Individual -- 3.2.10.3 Stability, Doxa and Doxic Experience -- 3.3 The Social Constructionism of Bourdieu's Model -- 3.3.1 Habitus and Individual Formation: Embodiment, Agency and Power -- 3.3.2 Habitus and the Field: An Extrinsic View of Macro-Structural Phenomena -- 3.3.3 The Political Dimension of Bourdieu's Model: A 'Singular' Symbolic Hierarchical Society, the Logic of Class Struggle and the Embodiment of Power Operations -- Bibliography. ; Chapter 4: The Performative Theory of Social Institutions: The Social Theory of the Strong Programme -- 4.1 Barnes' Performative Theory of Social Institutions -- 4.1.1 (Di)Visions of the World: Natural Kinds and Social Kinds -- 4.1.2 Self-Referentiality and Performativity -- 4.1.3 Individual Inferences as 'Collective Accomplishments' -- 4.1.4 Social Structures as 'Invisible' Self-Referential Social Institutions -- 4.1.5 The Self-Referential Nature of Social Reality: An Intrinsic Account of Social Structures -- 4.2 From the Nature of Social Reality to the Social Bases of 'Nature' Categories -- 4.2.1 Barnes' Empiricist Account -- 4.2.2 The Strong Programme Theory of Meaning Finitism -- 4.2.3 Normativity and Content Determination: The Collective Bases of Social Phenomena -- 4.2.4 The Social Constructionism of the Strong Programme: A Collectivist, Realist Social Ontology -- 4.3 Rules as Social Institutions and the Strong Programme as an Interaction-Based Social Theory -- 4.3.1 The Constitutive Role of Collective Sanctioning -- 4.4 Kusch's Further Development of the Theory of Social Institutions -- 4.4.1 Kusch's Notion of Artificial Kinds -- 4.4.2 Kusch's 'Clocks' Model: Mapping Out Change and Stability -- 4.4.3 Mutual Susceptibility and the Role of Social Sanctioning -- 4.4.4 Social Life in Constant Change and Adjustment -- 4.4.5 Consensus Is Local Rather than Community-Wide -- 4.5 Conclusion: The Collective Interactionist View of Social Institutions -- Bibliography -- Part III: Bourdieu's Theory of Practice and the Performative Theory: A Critical Comparison -- Chapter 5: Reassessing Bourdieu's Contribution to the Social Constructionist Debate of the Body -- 5.1 Introducing the Body -- 5.1.1 A Theory of Action through the Body -- 5.1.2 A Theory of Production of Social Knowledge through the Body: the Constitution of the Doxic Realm. ; 5.1.3 Mechanisms of Constitution of Bodies and Minds, as Cultural Artefacts: Habitus as an 'Artefact' -- 5.1.4 An 'Embodied' Theory of Power -- 5.1.5 Relocating Bourdieu's Contribution of the Corporeal -- 5.2 The Embodied Habitus and Sex Identity: the Social Nature of an Embodied Sex and Gender Identity in Bourdieu -- 5.2.1 'Externalising' the Arbitrary and the Paradox of Doxa -- 5.2.2 From Class Habitus to Sex Habitus: the Material Bases of Habitus and Masculine Domination as Libido Dominandi -- 5.3 Bourdieu's Structuralist Model: the Force of 'Things' or a Social Ontology of Externality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Discursive Feminism Evaluating Bourdieu: the Structuralist Controversy within the Sex and Gender Debate -- 6.1 Introducing Butler's Examination of Bourdieu's Model -- 6.1.1 Butler and Bourdieu's Interpretation of Performativity -- 6.2 Butler's Discursive Model: the Force of 'Words' or a Social Ontology of Internality -- 6.2.1 Butler's Performative Theory of Sex and Gender: Revisiting the Category of 'Sex' -- 6.2.2 Constructing 'Materiality': the Realism of Butler's Social Constructionism -- 6.2.3 Ontological Commitment to a 'Non-Origin' -- 6.3 Reviewing Butler's Evaluation of Bourdieu's Model -- 6.3.1 Butler's Ontology of 'Words' Versus Bourdieu's Ontology of 'Things' -- 6.3.2 Butler's Open-Ended Versus Bourdieu's Closed/Fixed Nature of Social Phenomena -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Sex Habitus as an Artificial Kind: a Critical Reconstruction of Sexed and Gendered Bodies -- 7.1 Sexed/Gendered Habitus and the Nature/Culture Debate: a Synthesis -- 7.1.1 Sex Habitus as an Artificial Kind: of the 'Social' Bases of an Embodied Sex -- 7.1.1.1 Discursive Materiality -- 7.1.1.2 The Fluctuating Nature of Sex/Gender Habitus -- 7.1.1.3 The Collective Nature of a Sex/Gender Habitus. ; 7.1.1.4 The Materiality of a Sex/Gender Habitus as an Artificial Kind of Reality -- 7.1.1.5 Durability and Stability of Sex Habitus under the AK Framework -- 7.1.1.6 (per)Formative Actions: the Priority of Action and Actions as Collective Achievements -- 7.1.2 Sex Habitus as an Artificial Kind: the Natural Bases of an Embodied Sex -- 7.2 Social Sanctioning and its Constitutive Role for Individual Formation -- 7.2.1 Two Views of Social Phenomena: 'Deistic' Versus 'Continuous' Creation -- 7.2.2 Interaction, Consensus and Mutual Susceptibility: the Constitutive Role of Sanctioning -- 7.2.3 Thomas Scheff and the Deference-Emotion System -- 7.2.4 Reconstructing Butler's Abject -- 7.2.5 Sanctioning Protects Stability but Does Not Overrule Dissent -- 7.3 The Micro-Dynamics of Identity Formation: Sexed Habitus and the Formation of an Inner Sense of Identity -- 7.4 Reconstructing Habitus as an Artificial Kind -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Identifying Power: 'To Have' and 'to Be' Power -- 8.1 Bourdieu's Extrinsic View of Power: to Have Power and Power as Repressive -- 8.2 Barnes and Foucault: an Intrinsic Conception of Power -- 8.2.1 Barnes: Power as Capacity and as a Distribution of Knowledge -- 8.2.2 Domination, Change, Stability and Dispositional Activity -- 8.2.3 The Case of Consciously Rejected Coercive Power: a Methodological Proposition -- 8.2.4 Power Mechanisms and Productive Power: a Reconstruction of Foucault's Theory of Power -- 8.2.5 Kusch's Reconstruction of Foucault's Theory of Power as an 'Internal-Essential Relationship' -- 8.2.6 Structures as Networks of Power -- 8.2.7 Foucault's 'Political Anatomy' -- 8.2.8 The Body's Dispositional Beliefs, and Calculative Reflexivity -- 8.3 Concluding Remarks: Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Conceptions of Power -- Bibliography. ; Chapter 9: Conclusions: New Avenues to a Sociological Enquiry of Sexed and Gendered Bodies.
• ISBN: 3-031-45477-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910835056203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology Series