Researching Embodiment by Way of ‘Body Techniques’
Researching Embodiment by Way of ‘Body Techniques’
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以“身法”研究具身
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00694.x
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2007
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N. Crossley
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N. Crossley
在本章中，我反思了马塞尔·莫斯的“身体技术”概念对于促进对具体化的实证分析的重要性。首先，我认为社会学在哲学意义上并没有犯心/身二元论，而是倾向于将行动和实践的体现视为理所当然，从而忽视它，就像莱德所说的在日常、外行经验中更常见的情况一样。我观察到，社会学的主题往往是行动和实践的目的、知识基础和规范性。我继续说，莫斯概念的重要性在于它以体现为主题，同时引起人们对特定行为方式的社会文化变异性的关注，同时又不忽视目的、知识或规范性。事实上，它将行动的所有这些方面结合在一起。在以抽象的方式提出这些观点之后，本章试图展示这种创新如何能够并且已经塑造了社会科学的实证工作。我认为，对身体技术的实证关注有助于对社会世界的体现进行实证参与。
In this chapter I reflect upon the importance of Marcel Mauss’ concept of ‘body techniques’ for facilitating an empirical analysis of embodiment. I begin by arguing that sociology is not guilty of mind/body dualism, in the philosophical sense, but tends rather to take the embodiment of actions and practices for granted and thus to overlook it, much as Leder suggests happens more generally in everyday, lay experience. It is the purpose, knowledge-base and normativity of actions and practices that has tended to be thematized in sociology, I observe. The importance of Mauss’ concept, I continue, is that it thematizes embodiment, simultaneously drawing attention to the socio-cultural variability of particular ways of acting, without losing sight of purpose, knowledge or normativity. Indeed it draws all of these aspects of action together. Having made these points in an abstract manner, the chapter attempts to show how this innovation can and has shaped empirical work in social science. An empirical focus upon body techniques, I suggest, facilitates an empirical engagement with the embodiment of the social world.