Overview
- Interpretative Social Research in the Context of the Material and Sensorial Turns
- Methodical approaches to the reconstruction of sensory perceptual qualities
- Senses and corporeality in digitalized worlds
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sociological Perspectives on the Senses
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Practice, Movement, Coordination: Physical Positioning
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Racism, Disgust, Gender: Audiovisual Differentiation
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Material, Digital, Pathological: Social Belongings and Boundaries
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About this book
That which we consider to be real we call knowledge. As a rule, we consider what our five senses convey to us to be real. Our perception and what we consider real and construct as socially effective differs depending on which senses we focus on and how intensively.
The connection between reality constructions and sensory conditions has received little attention in social research so far. This concerns, for example, the use of our sensory organs for empirical reconstructions of bodies of knowledge, sensory perceptions as part of bodies of knowledge, or the question of how far knowledge is dependent on sensory abilities. This anthology attempts to close this gap by focusing on the social significance of sensory perceptions and discussing it using the example of various objects of investigation.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Eisewicht is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Technical University of Dortmund.
Ronald Hitzler was Professor of General Sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund until 2017.
Lisa Schäfer is a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the Open University of Hagen.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Meaning of the Senses
Book Subtitle: The Reconstruction of Sensory Aspects of Knowledge
Editors: Paul Eisewicht, Ronald Hitzler, Lisa Schäfer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38580-4
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-38579-8Published: 22 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-38580-4Published: 21 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 246
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of the Body