کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7517486 1486756 2018 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Unacknowledged distinctions: Corporeality versus embodiment in later life
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی طب سالمندان و علم پیری شناسی
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Unacknowledged distinctions: Corporeality versus embodiment in later life
چکیده انگلیسی
The focus upon the body in the social sciences has had a growing influence in recent years on aging studies. Various terms have been used to explore the relationship between the body and society, of which 'corporeality' and 'embodiment' have taken pride of place. In this paper, we present the case for drawing a clear distinction between these two terms and the consequences that follow from it for the study of the body in social and cultural gerontology. Central to this distinction is the place of social agency. Corporeality, we suggest, refers to the role of the body as a set of structures whose identity and meaning is mediated by culture and society. Embodiment, in contrast, refers to the processes by which social actors realise distinction, identity and lifestyle through the medium of the body. Making this distinction sharpens the difference between studies that address self and others' reactions to physical changes in bodily function attributable to aging and/or age associated illness and impairment and studies that focus on the 'performance' of aging and the contested realisations of identity and lifestyle in later life. While the latter primarily reflects the concerns of 'third age' studies the former addresses the concerns more directly associated with 'fourth age' studies.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Aging Studies - Volume 45, June 2018, Pages 5-10
نویسندگان
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