Sage Publishing The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire - Sage

The Social Body explores how human embodied experience shapes social life whilst society itself shapes our bodies and bodily practices. Nick Crossley provides an accessible yet rigorous review of contemporary social science debates on the body, synthesising theoretical insights from Gilbert Ryle, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, George Herbert Mead and Pierre Bourdieu. By examining the overlapping contributions of these thinkers, Crossley develops a coherent new perspective that reveals how mind and body connect, and how bodily life is fundamentally social. This used book in good condition offers a persuasive framework for understanding the intricate relationships between individual identity, social habit and bodily desire, making it essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, anthropology and social theory.