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- Title
Carnal Connections: On Embodiment, Apprenticeship, and Membership.
- Authors
Wacquant, Loïc
- Abstract
This article responds to the special issue of Qualitative Sociology devoted to the author's book, Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (vol. 28, no. 3, summer 2005). Four themes are tackled: the positioning of the inquirer and the question of social acceptance and membership; the dynamics of embodiment(s) and the variable role of race as a structural, interactional, and dispositional property; the functioning of the boxing gym as miniature civilizing and masculinizing machine; apprenticeship as a mode of knowledge transmissioin and technique for social inquiry, the scope of carnal sociology, and the textual work needed to convey the full-color texture and allure of the social world. This leads to clarifying the conceptual, empirical, and rhetorical makeup of Body and Soul in relation to its triple intent: to elucidate the workings of a sociocultural competency residing in prediscursive capacities; to deploy and develop the concept of habitus as operant philosophy of action and methodological guide; and to offer a brief for a sociology not of the body (as social product) but from the body (as social spring and vector of knowledge), exemplifying a way of doing and writing ethnography that takes full epistemic advantage of the visceral nature of social life.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL acceptance; MEMBERSHIP; APPRENTICESHIP programs; SOCIAL interaction; RACE
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 4, p445
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-005-8367-0