Societies – Open Access Journal (Web)

Deadline: 31.08.2012, Cfp-Web

This special issue follows the ISA World Forum on „The Body in the Social Sciences“ to be held in Buenos Aries Aug 1-4, 2012 (Web), but is also open to submissions of papers not presented at the Forum. This special issue focuses on the interconnectedness of the body and society, thus it will include works that explore how the body is shaped by and constrained through socio-cultural processes, as well as those that focus on how bodies in action affect the societies in which they operate. As Goffman (1972) pointed out in his seminal presidential address to the American Sociological Association, „The Interaction Order,“ we cannot act without our bodies, meaning sociology must account for the body. … read more (Web)