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Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter
Edited by Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman
ABOUT — Forthcoming with Bristol University Press as part of their Interpretive Lenses in Sociology book series edited by Thomas DeGloma and Julie West.
Interpreting the Body will bring together a critical selection of essays by notable and up-and-coming social scientists whose research on the body draws from cultural sociology and anthropology, symbolic interaction/pragmatism, psychoanalytic sociology, and other interpretive schools. Scholars contributing to this volume will explore a variety of topics, including extremism and belonging, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, sports, aesthetics, and more, but all will reflect on and illuminate the interpretive connections that link human experiences and actions to the body.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY (AJCS)- A PALGRAVE JOURNAL
Managing Editor, 2017 – 2022
ABOUT — Since the early days of modernity many social theorists have anticipated the downfall of meaning induced by the emerging and predominant forces of rationalization and industrialization. However, in spite of it all, cultural structures and processes withstood those strong influences and developed autonomous patterns of meaning that affect many structures such as inequality, racism and marginality, gender and sexuality, crime and punishment, social movements, market success and citizen incorporation. The new discipline of cultural sociology was born in this vast mélange of phenomena with the aim to conceptualize these complex cultural processes.
By bringing together the many debates around these field-specific theoretical and methodological questions, the journal underlines the cultural turn in contemporary sociology. Conceived as open space for discussion, it engages in a meaning-centered social inquiry aiming for a facilitated communication, sharpened contrast and a synthesis of different perspectives. Research chosen for publication reflects meaning-centered sociology and welcomes various approaches such as contemporary and historical studies, macro and micro perspectives, institutional and symbolic work, ethnographic and statistical techniques and philosophical and methodological ways.