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Shilling, Chris – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
Pierre Bourdieu's writings provide us with a powerful vision of corporeal sociology (an approach towards human relationships and identities that has at its centre the socially shaped embodied subject), and an understanding of the body as a form of physical capital. Despite his protestations to the contrary, however, a reproductionist bias pervades…
Descriptors: Social Action, Sociology, Physical Characteristics, Physical Development