Book Reference: ‘Body in Culture, Technology and Society’ by Chris Shilling

Shilling, C., 2005. The body in culture, technology and society, London: SAGE.

P.28. ‘The physical capacities and experiences of individuals, however, suggests that the body plays an independent and essential causal role in the formation of societal phenomena’.

p.28. ‘tHE BODY IS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF THOSE CAPACITIES AND DISPOSITIONS WHICH ENABLE IT TO TRANSCEND ITS NATURAL STATE AND CREATE A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT’

P.61. Bordeieu: ‘The body is in the social world but the social world is in the body… the embodied actor is both indelibly shaped by, and an active reproducer of, society.’

P.64. ‘The body is no longer an ‘extrinsic “given”, functioning outside the internally referential systems of modernity’, but has become ‘drawn into the reflexive organization of social life’ to the extent that we are ‘responsible for the design of our own bodies.’