Review: Reiner Keller & Michael Meuser (Eds.). Körperwissen [Knowledge of the Body]

Authors

  • Dirk vom Lehn King's College London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-13.2.1815

Keywords:

body, knowledge, sociology of knowledge, interaction

Abstract

Over recent years, the new sociology of knowledge has become increasingly interested in issues and debates about the ways in which the body features in people's actions and experience of the social world—debates that over the past two decades have also arisen within the sociology of the body. The edited collection reviewed here is based on the contributions to a conference jointly organised in 2010 by two sections of the German Sociology Association's (DGS): the section "Sociology of Knowledge" and the section "Sociology of the Body and Sociology of Sport." The book contains a variety of theoretical and empirical papers that analyse how "knowledge of the body" features in people's actions and everyday experiences, as well as how it is communicated. To guide the debate, the editors use their introductory chapter to differentiate between "knowledge of the body" and "knowledge about the body." This distinction proves very useful in drawing relationships between the individual contributions, which are based on studies from very diverse domains, including the discourse on sexuality, cosmetic surgery and General Practice, as well as exhibitions about the body, pedagogical concepts of the body and the body in martial arts training. It also supports linkages between the theoretical papers in the first part of the volume and the empirical analyses of the later contributions. This edited volume will be of interest to anyone with a background in the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of the body conducting research and contributing to sociological debates on the relationship between the body and knowledge.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs120216

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Author Biography

Dirk vom Lehn, King's College London

Dirk VOM LEHN ist Lecturer in Marketing am King's College London. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen ethnografische, ethnomethodologische und videobasierte Untersuchungen sozialer Interaktion in Organisationen wie Museen und auf Straßenmärkten sowie der Arbeit von Optiker/innen. Er ist insbesondere daran interessiert, wie Objekte und Technologien in soziale Interaktionen eingebettet werden. Gemeinsam mit Will GIBSON hat er in 2011 die Sonderausgabe "Interaction" der Zeitschrift Symbolic Interaction herausgegeben. In FQS finden sich von Dirk VOM LEHN weitere Rezensionen u.a. zu Stefanie ERNST (2010). Prozessorientierte Methoden in der Arbeits- und Organisationsforschung: Eine Einführung, Pragmatistische Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung von STRÜBING (2009) und "Geradeaus ist einfach immer geradeaus". Eine lebensweltliche Ethnographie blinder Raumorientierung" (SAERBERG 2008).

Published

2012-03-28

How to Cite

Lehn, D. vom. (2012). Review: Reiner Keller & Michael Meuser (Eds.). Körperwissen [Knowledge of the Body]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-13.2.1815

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