The Rise of the Body and the Development of Sociology

Studies of embodiment have occupied an increasingly important role in sociology across the social sciences and humanities since the 1980s. This ‘rise of the body’ led not only to the establishment of a vibrant interdisciplinary area of ‘body ’, but has also prompted an ongoing reconstruction of disciplinary and subdisciplinary seeking to account more adequately for the embodied nature and of their subject matter. It has also been responsible for a shift in mainstream theory. A growing number of works concerned with performativity, theory, nature, realism, feminism, and human creativity, for example, illustrative of an increasingly widespread recognition that the embodied subject to be central to any comprehensive understanding of social life.