Section outline

  • Syllabus

    1.      Introduction of the Course and the Discipline of Anthropology/Sociology of the body

     

    Bodies and social (dis)order

    2.      Techniques of the body (Marcel Mauss)

    3.      The two bodies (Mary Douglas)

    4.      Embodied information in face-to-face interaction (Erwing Goffmann)

    5.      Habitus, body as both, the outcome and structuring principle (Pierre Bourdieu)

    6.      Body as a form of a capital (Loïc Wacquant)

    7.      Docile bodies (Michel Foucault)

    8.      Embodiment (Thomas Csordas)

     

    Exercising power, shaping bodies

    9.     Body as a discourse negotiation (Emily Martin)

    10.    Body as a locus of cultural resistance (Aihwa Ong)

    11.   Body – a central node in a symbolic and social structure (Nancy Scheper Hughes)

    12.5. university holiday

    12.   Bodies incommensurable and the menopause (Margaret Lock)

    How does culture shape our body on Reddit: 

    Requirements:

    Classes´attendance 70% minimum

    Class participation (20 % of the final grade)

    Synopsis (20 % of the final grade)

    ·         100 - 250 words

    ·         main argument

    ·         contextualization (paradigm: directs epistemological assumption, suitable methods, questions asked)

    ·         1 comment or question (did you find something interesting in particular in the text? Do you not agree with something in the text? Do you not understand something in the text?)     

    The final essay, 1250 - 1750 words (60 % of the final grade)

    ·         based on at least 3 titles from the field of social sciences (at least one from the course mandatory literature)

    ·         compulsory consultation of the topic via moodle

    Deadline of the topic definition: 27.04.2021

    ·         design: building upon literature - to discuss a selected topic, comparing different theoretical approaches to it (apply a theory/ concept on some phenomenon). The arguments have to be rooted in literature!!!

    Final assignment due: 20.06.2021