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Seymour, Wendy, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Remaking the body : Explorations in the sociology of embodiment." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050728.111439.

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As embodied social agents our lives are preoccupied with the production and reproduction of bodies. Making, unmaking and remaking our embodiment are ongoing activities. Eating, exercise, washing, grooming, dressing, for example, are activities in which the body engages in routine tasks of bodily management. Such activities can be seen as everyday rehabilitation. The study explores the impact of major physical impairment on embodiment, and on the processes involved in re-embodiment after catastrophic injury or disease. The experiences of the people in this study dramatically highlight the conti
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Hein, Jill Marissa. "Tween Body Image and Related Clothing Preferences." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392105358.

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Twitchen, Alex Burton. "The body, sport and risk : an historical sociology of motor racing." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402252.

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Howson, Alexandra. "Sisterhood is cervical : a sociology of the body, gender and health." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26626.

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This thesis addresses the sociology of the body and of governance by presenting empirical material, in the form of both textual and interview data, drawn from a case study of cervical screening. This material is used to examine women's experiences and their sense of embodiment in the context of cervical screening participation. The thesis argues that cervical screening, as a form of prevention, represents a new type of social regulation in late modernity. This argument challenges current understandings of the relationship between the body, gender and health. First, the thesis poses a distincti
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Chen, Ming-Chu. "The body politic in gendered techoscience : a deconstructive interpretation /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487951214941284.

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Clark, Pamela Michelle. "The body matters : understanding social differences in mental health." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2377.

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This doctoral dissertation illuminates the salience of body image to sociological investigations of mental health. It is argued that concerns over body-appearance evident in America embody a dimension of distress over the physical self that may be appropriately considered a mental health outcome, called body dysphoria. Using cross-sectional data from a sample of 1,183 young adults comprising Hispanic, African American, and non-Hispanic white males and females of varying social classes, a valid and reliable measure of body dysphoria is developed and demonstrated to be a distinct dimension of ps
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Cream, Julia Hilary. "Reproducing body contours : the woman on the pill." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307603.

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Orejuela, Fernando. "The body as cultural artifact performing the body in bodybuilding culture /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3161795.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2005.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0290. Adviser: Richard Bauman. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).
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Clark, Pamela Michelle. "America's breast implant craze: exploring the politics of a postmodern gendered body." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2376.

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This master's thesis concerns the increasing popularity of cosmetic breast augmentation in America in recent years. Specifically, statistics indicate that between 1992 and 1998 there has been a 306% rise in the number of breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. (ASPRS, 1999). Why do women elect a surgery to cosmetically augment their breasts? Taking a postmodern theoretical approach, this research offers a meta-theory for women's desires and ultimately their decisions for cosmetic breast augmentation. It entails examining a multiplicity of converging micro- and macro-level social forces, subj
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Boroughs, Michael Scott. "Body Depilation among Women and Men: The Association of Body Hair Reduction or Removal with Body Satisfaction, Appearance Comparison, Body Image Disturbance, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptomatology." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3985.

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Body depilation, or the reduction or removal of body hair, is a relatively new area of research inquiry. Although women in many industrialized cultures have engaged in depilation for several decades, this behavior has been documented only recently among men. Though originally thought to be widely practiced by women and only a small proportion of men, including athletes or bodybuilders, recent studies suggest that more men engage in body depilation than previously hypothesized. In fact, one recent study estimated the prevalence of men's body depilation at 83.7% which suggests that men are de
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Brennan, Patrick Joseph, University of Western Sydney, College of Social and Health Sciences, and School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. "Dumb questions : blustering hostility : nature/nurture, the body and the sociology of child abuse." THESIS_CSHS_ASH_Brennan_P.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/786.

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This thesis critiques the nature/nurture debate in sociology and applies current thinking to sociological work on child abuse. By examining the literature available within sociology, biology and ecology, the nature/nurture debate is shown to be a defining epistemological construct within sociology. In deconstructing the debate, this thesis shows that addressing biology within sociology does not require an acceptance of determinism and that a plurality of possibilities still exists. It also reveals that human corporeality is viscerally susceptible to the environment and that separating human so
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Elliott-Brennan, Patrick. "Dumb questions - blustering hostility nature/nurture, the body and the sociology of child abuse /." View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040730.151852/index.html.

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McNay, Lois. "Power, body, gender : implications of French social theory for feminist critique." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272613.

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Richardson, Margaret. "Effects of Internal Versus External Attribution and Body Mass Index on Weight Prejudice." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/473.

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The primary purpose of this research was to examine the effect of internal and external attribution and a person's Body Mass Index on weight prejudice. Data for this research was obtained from an ABC News/Time Magazine Poll (2004). Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. My hypothesis that people who internally attribute the cause of being overweight or obese will be more likely to be prejudiced toward overweight or obese individuals was supported by my findings. My hypothesis that people who internally attribute the cause of obesity and have a lower Body Mass Index would be more lik
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Pereira, Beatriz Patriota. "“O mais profundo é a pele” : processos de construção de identidade por meio da tatuagem." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2016. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/7471.

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Watson, Jonathan M. "Being in shape : the body as a location for the health beliefs of men." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU074533.

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The aim of this study was to explore male self-image, its impact on health beliefs and behaviour, and to identify any implications for health education practice. A review of the literature revealed the importance of understanding lay health beliefs and that the relationship between male embodiment and health had not been significantly addressed. Thirty informants aged 30-40 were interviewed in depth on three separate occasions over an eighteen month period. Using the grounded theory approach, interview transcripts were read, coded and analysed to reveal that informants' theorising about the bo
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Westoby, Kay. "Body, transparency and tactile dwelling : are we nearly here yet?" Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/108505/.

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This thesis proceeds from an attempt to articulate the body. At its core, however, is not the attempt to offer a definition of the body but instead to articulate a problem of touching on it. As such, it is motivated by a question at once banal and impossible: ‘Are we nearly here yet?’ Following Jean-Luc Nancy’s engagement with the account of space and being-there proposed by Martin Heidegger, it relates the materiality of the body to a broader role of touch and sense in constructing a world of engagements in which the body is never “here” but always “there”, always exposed in its touch upon th
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Pilipovic, Josipa. "The body and democracy : Contemporary dance, technology and democracy." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76076.

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In this essay the research question; “How is the body movement de ned in times of democracy due to technology? “will be explored. e process will include a theoretical research on the de nition of democracy in relation to digitalization. e outcome of this project will be in the form of a performance with a con- temporary dancer. e purpose of this project will be to invite the audience to question the limitations and freedoms the digitalized world imposes on our political system and our body movement.
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Kwan, Samantha. "Contested Meanings about Body, Health, and Weight: Frame Resonance, Strategies of Action, and the Uses of Culture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193746.

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There has been much talk in the public arena about the meanings of the overweight body. While feminist scholars have long theorized and studied the oppressive effects of hegemonic beauty norms, in recent years several groups such as the Centers for Disease Control, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (a non-profit fat acceptance organization), and the Center for Consumer Freedom (a non-profit organization representing the food industry), have stepped up claims-making about the fat body and what it represents. How are these competing cultural messages promulgated by these cultu
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Watts, Alison J. "Embodied Conflict: Women Athletes Negotiating the Body and Identity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/111289.

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Sociology<br>Ph.D.<br>Breaking out of the traditional expectations of femininity, women participating in sports, particularly physically aggressive sports, challenge the dominant framework of a sex/gender binary. The reading of essential difference between the bodies of men and women has been central to the history of women's involvement in sports. Historically, women's bodies have been considered incommensurable with and even in danger of damage from participation within the male world of sport. In the current climate of sport, women athletes embody a peculiar dilemma as their participation i
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Mansfield, Louise. "Gender, power and identities in the fitness gym : towards a sociology of the 'exercise body-beautiful complex'." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7753.

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This thesis examines the ways in which female bodies are central to the production and reproduction of gendered social inequality, and the formation of feminine identities in the fitness gym. Ethnographic methods were utilised to investigate the patterns and relations of power that underpinned the production and reproduction of feminine body ideals and feminine identities and habituses in a fitness gym in the South-East of England. The potential usefulness of harnessing feminist and figurational concepts for understanding gendered bodies in the context of sport and exercise is also explored. S
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Bushaw, Kyle J. "The Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Arrests| Examining the Chicago Police Department's Pilot Program." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10274824.

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<p> With overwhelming public support, pressure has been mounting on police departments to improve accountability and public trust by equipping their officers with body worn cameras (BWCs) to reduce police violence and hold officers responsible for excessive use of force, unjustified shootings, and other forms of misconduct. As police departments have begun to employ BWCs, however, concerns have risen regarding the application of this new technology and its potential to benefit police officers more so than the communities they serve. This study focuses on the city of Chicago&rsquo;s recently im
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Silva, Deborah Helen 1950. "The relationship between female body image and androgyny." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291890.

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This study examined gender role and female body image. It was hypothesized that results would support a statistically significant difference between the androgynous gender role group and other gender role groups on measures of body image. Androgynous female undergraduates (n = 52) of a large southwestern university, as classified by the Short Form of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, were compared with masculine (n = 57), feminine (n = 53), and undifferentiated (n = 56) female undergraduates on body image scores of the Body Esteem Scale. Androgynous females scored significantly higher than masculine
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Moore, Erin Lindsey. "Thin-Ideal Internalization, Body Misperception, and Their Association with Weight Control Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3053.

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Negative body image and preoccupation with weight are the norm for most women and girls in Western society, despite their potentially harmful consequences for psychological and physical wellness. While we know that many in this population experience negative feelings towards their bodies, we do not know if their beliefs about their body size are accurate and what effect a correct or incorrect assessment of one's body size has in terms of actual behavior. I examine this question among adolescent girls using data from the 2002 Health Behaviors in School-Age Children Survey. With a sample of 2,78
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Villa, Julio. "Cuerpo, masculinidad y estilo en jóvenes de sectores altos de Lima." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/114955.

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This paper approaches masculinity through the study of the body, taking into account its aesthetics tounveil a subject not well documented and to explore the experience and representation of masculinity in a socioeconomic sector that is not well known. The research on masculinities in Latin America and the world, point out three essential components: the persistent demonstration of masculinity<br>the distinction between feminine and homosexual<br>and the control of emotions. This research shows that, in the social sector explored, the concept of masculinity widens and the three components that
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Jennings, George Bradley. "Fighters, thinkers and shared cultivation : experiencing transformation through the long-term practice of traditionalist Chinese martial arts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/116974.

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Traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMAs) are popular in Britain, and some advocates have made extensive claims of their body-self transformation through sustained training. Despite extensive physiological research, there are few investigations of these practices regarding their socio-cultural practice. This qualitative sociological study examines long-term British practitioners’ experiences of transformation via Taijiquan (Tai Chi) and Wing Chun by addressing five issues: 1) Rationales behind practice 2) Resulting transformations 3) Explicit/implicit pedagogic strategies 4) Cultural transmi
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Gomes, Juliana Neves Simões. "Entre o ar e o chão: Metier de bailarino na cidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-22082011-104438/.

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Essa tese procura investigar os mistérios que envolvem a adesão ao metier da dança, atividade artística para a qual é atraída uma minoria que faz do corpo instrumento de trabalho e recurso privilegiado de transgressão das próprias condições de existência. Trata-se de um estudo sobre bailarinas e bailarinos profissionais cujo interesse reside no exame dos elementos objetivos e subjetivos de acesso e permanência nessa carreira. A idéia consiste em desvendar a vocação para a dança tomando como cenário analítico o contexto do meio coreográfico da cidade de São Paulo, na atualidade, em que são enco
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Abbas, Andrea. "Sociological approaches to the sexed running body and its construction through magazine and memory 1979-1995." Thesis, Keele University, 2000. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/7755/.

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This thesis explores the transforming embodiment of sex that is integral to the development of running/jogging culture between 1979-1995. Actor-network theory, a foucauldian approach and critical realism are each used to elucidate different aspects of running including the way it defines sex through the body, clothing, space and the rules and practices of running, jogging and racing.
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Reilly, Andrew H. "Risk, body image, and internalized homonegativity among gay men: body building, eating disturbance, tanning and unsafe sex." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086193466.

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Bridel, William. "Gender, sexuality, and the body: Exploring the lived experiences of gay and queer marathoners." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27228.

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The present study explores the experiences of 12 gay and queer males within the sport of marathoning. Working within an anti-positivist paradigm that draws on queer and poststructuralist gender theories, as well as a Foucauldian perspective of the body, I investigate subjects' discursive constructions of sexuality, gender, and the body within the context of this individual sport milieu. Gathered through guided conversations, written personal stories, and my reflexive research journal, subjects' narratives were analyzed thematically and then submitted to a discourse analysis. While revealing th
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Hill, Anabel Lee 1954. "Changes in body weight, total body fat, fat distribution, and dietary food intake in Hispanics participating in a 6 month smoking cessation program with and without the use of transdermal nicotine." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282576.

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Smokers who successfully quit smoking gain weight; although important factors have been identified the mechanisms remain unclear. We measured changes in body weight, fat distribution, and dietary intake of macronutrients during a 26 week smoking cessation trial with the use of nicotine and placebo patch in a Hispanic sample of smokers (88% Mexican-American). Participants were randomized to receive patch treatment for 10 weeks and then followed for 16 weeks. We found that nicotine treated quitters experienced significantly less weight gain than placebo treated quitters at 6 weeks; however by 26
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Lantz, Elise. "Des marginalités encadrées : étude des rapports au handicap dans différentes configurations associatives du monde du cirque contemporain français." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON14001.

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Le monde du cirque contemporain, qui a émergé en France à la fin des années 70, et qui a toujours entretenu une certaine marginalité, révèle les rapports ambivalents qu'entretient notre société à l'égard du handicap. Nous avons adopté une approche relationniste du handicap pour réaliser une étude exploratoire quantitative, puis une étude qualitative de onze associations circassiennes. Nous avons mis à jour quatre types de rapports à la différence : certaines associations organisent un Regroupement et Mise à distance des différences, qui sépare les personnes qui ont des limitations de capacités
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Mueller, Emma, and Sara Johansson. "Sociala medier -­ Ett osunt samhällsfenomen : En kvantitativ sociologisk studie om Facebook och Instagrams exponering på kvinnors kroppsuppfattning." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34258.

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The aim of this study is to examine if social media has a negative impact on how womenperceive their own body image. The study was conducted by a quantitative survey usingquestionnaires to examine the various factors that affect the perceived body image. Such ashow women socially compare themselves with others or how satisfied they are with theirbody depending on how much time they spend on social media. We will also investigate ifwomen’s perceived body image is consistent with the their actual body based upon theirBMI. The sample for the study consisted of 159 women who are members of a speci
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Erim, Bilun. "Making The Secular Through The Body: Tattooing The Father Turk." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613367/index.pdf.

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This thesis examines the recent phenomenon of Atat&uuml<br>rk&rsquo<br>s tattoos through a twofold theoretical framework of body politics and secularism. Firstly, it examines the growing interest on the body in social sciences, which has focused on the body as a site of both docility and subversivity. Additionally, the body has been rediscovered as a fetish object through which selfhood and subjectivity are continually reconstructed and contested. These developments were simultaneously conditioned by and manifested themselves in an understanding of &lsquo<br>the body as a project&rsquo<br>. Se
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Horn, Zachary. "Cemeteries & the Control of Bodies." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2986.

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There has been a substantial change in cemetery administration over the last century. Where once cemeteries were predominantly run by religious organizations, now they are mostly run by local municipalities. This thesis examines the change in cemetery administration, using the cemeteries in the city of Hamilton, Ontario as a case study, drawing on material taken from an inventory of Hamilton cemeteries. The Ontario Cemetery Act of 1913 is examined to see how it helped to consolidate municipal power over cemeteries. <br /><br /> In addition to secularization theory, relevant concep
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Ghillani, Francesca. "Migrating bodies : the effects of transnational movement on women's bodily practices in later life." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bddae074-798e-490e-8079-85d9dfed9423.

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When approaching old age, women's bodies face functional, esthetical, and reproductive changes that can represent a source of discontinuity in their lives. Moreover, women are constantly exposed to the social pressure of compelling stereotypes regarding their body image and functionality: from media to medical pamphlets, the feminine body is subjected to deep social observation and regulation. Given that the relationship between ageing and the body is socially mediated, how does the encounter with a different culture have an impact on it? In this research, migration has been employed to analys
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Pollock, Sarah. "Framing Fitness: Gender, Experts, Popular Magazines, and Healthism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/324761.

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Sociology<br>Ph.D.<br>I examined the extent to which Bourdieu's field theory applied to the fitness industry through analysis of magazine content and interviews with a variety of field participants. I found that the processes through which people come to understand and define fitness in different ways, and, at times, develop contradictory positions on the importance and benefits of fitness are in concert with Bourdieu's theory. I argue that in addition to the historical macro forces identified by other scholars as shaping the fitness industry, endogenous field dynamics propel the field in new
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Adams, Joshua R. "Transient bodies, pliable flesh culture, stratification, and body modification /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181666499.

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Ison, Joshua A. "Poking, Prodding, and Piercing: Becoming a Successful Body Modifier." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2551.

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Body modification is a global phenomenon. In the southeastern United States, two forms of modifications present themselves most often: piercings and tattoos. Much of the research conducted on body modifications looks at deviance as a primary concern, focusing less on what the individuals are like. This study examines the personal accounts of people with body modifications and add to the existing information about body-modified people. Interviews were conducted with fifteen participants across several months in different parts of two east Tennessee cities. Questions were open-ended and all resp
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Keller, Zoe A. "Correlations between body mass index and psychological distress in adolescents." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527717.

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<p> The purpose of the current study was to address the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) status and psychological distress within the adolescent population. Data was acquired from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2011-2012, a state-wide phone survey which addresses health issues among the resident population. The present study used data from 2,1 04 California adolescents, utilizing variables relating to demographics, general health condition, and mental health.</p><p> Results indicated a statistically significant relationship between BMI and psychological distress, wit
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Rowson, Emily. "Impossible girls and tin dogs : constructions of the gendered body in Doctor Who." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36277/.

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This thesis interrogates the various constructions of the gendered body within the rebooted Doctor Who (1963- ). To do this, this thesis contends that Doctor Who occupies something of a contradictory position with regard to gender and the body, seemingly acknowledging the need for equality and feminism as ‘common sense’ whilst simultaneously denying true realisation of these aims by retreat to universal (patriarchal) concepts of goodness, humanity, and benevolence. In addition to this, whilst, at present, our definitions of the gendered body appear to be becoming ever more fluid and abstract,
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Windsor, Elroi J. "Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/55.

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Few bodies consistently portray natural or unaltered forms. Instead, humans inhabit bodies imbued with sociocultural meanings about what is attractive, appropriate, functional, and presentable. As such, embodiment is always gendered. The social, extra-corporeal body is a central locus for expressing gender. Surgical body modifications represent inherently gendered technologies of the body. But psychomedical institutions subject people who seek gender-crossing surgeries to increased surveillance, managing and regulating cross-gender embodiment as disorderly. Using mixed research methods, this r
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Stokes, Donald Milton. "Media's Impact, Body Image, and Latina Ethnic Sub-group Affiliation." Thesis, University of Connecticut, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3569930.

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<p>Body image refers to how a person perceives herself physically. A woman's perception of her physical appearance and her adherence to a cultural ideal of beauty informs her body image. Several determinants shape the development of body image, including sociocultural, psychological, and interpersonal factors, as well as adolescent physique and maturation, history of abuse, and certain types of media exposure (e.g., fashion magazines and a variety of television programming). </p><p> Much scholarly critique has argued that popular media perpetuate a "thin ideal" to viewers. Consumers receive
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Allen, Steven William. "A pleasure in pain : contemporary mainstream cinema's fascination with the aestheticized spectacle of the controlled body." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1228/.

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This thesis considers the ways in which the dominated, marked and suffering body (the controlled body) has been represented and employed in recent mainstream cinema. Noting a shift from narratives that depict escape and the alleviation of torment to ones that highlight subjection and endurance, it probes the influences and implications of the change. The project employs an interdisciplinary approach that utilizes discourses from anthropology, art history and cultural studies in conjunction with textual analysis, and consequently attempts to rethink a pleasure in pain outside psychoanalytically
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Karadeniz, Oguz Ozgur. "Subject, Body, And Technology In The Discourse Of Cyberculture: The Case Of Wired Magazine." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611901/index.pdf.

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This study aims to provide an account of the production of subject through the representations of body and technology in the discourse of cyberculture through the analysis of Wired magazine. The findings indicate that the subject produced in this discourse is normatively white and male, and is produced along the ways of liberal humanism as it is conceptualized as autonomous, having free will and preceding the discursive operations and market relations. The production of this subject requires a series of exclusions and abjections including the smart machines which are becoming increasingly huma
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Öhman, Marie. "Kropp och makt i rörelse." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1513.

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Body and Power in Motion This dissertation is concerned with body and politics, or, more specifi cally body, power and governance. The central question is how specifi c individuals and bodies are constituted in the teaching of Physical Education (PE) in school. Inspired by Foucault’s work and the research fi eld that emanates from the concept of governmentality, one of the ambitions is to develop a method that facilitates the study of power and governance processes in teachers’ and students’ interactive actions and dealings. With the aid of this approach, 15 video-recorded physical education l
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Caballero, Julia Daniel. "Socialisations et institutionnalisation des pratiques corpo-expressives en Espagne." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU30117/document.

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L'Expression Corporelle (EC) est une discipline relativement récente en Espagne. Elle a été institutionnalisée au cours des années 1960 et 1970. Nous avons analysé les parcours de professionnalisation et les modalités d'appropriation/socialisation des pratiquants de l'EC. Le matériau est composé d'observations directes des pratiques corporelles, d'entretiens semi-directifs et de questionnaires qualitatifs. Cette thèse met en évidences les carrières corpo-expressives des pratiquant-e-s de l'EC. Notamment, on étudie le travail de transformation de soi qui modifie leurs dispositions. Nous mettons
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Meadows, Amber S. "Men Feel it too: An Examination of Body Image and Disordered Eating among Older Males." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/gerontology_theses/27.

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This quantitative study examined body image and disordered eating in older males. Using a series of questionnaires and demographic questions, two research questions were explored: a) What are the characteristics of older males in terms of eating and body image? and b) Are disordered eating behaviors among older males related to dissatisfaction with body image, specifically physical appearance or physical functioning? Paired samples t-tests revealed that older males rated their ideal body figure as significantly smaller than their current figure, t(35) = -5.53, p < .01, which indicates the pres
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Lee, Ilknur. "Beyond body an analysis of diachronic changes of societal beliefs and attitudes /." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000007.

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Purdue, David. "Conflict and consensus within the paralympic field : a sociological investigation of an elite disability sport competition." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8367.

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This research provides a sociological investigation of an elite disability sport competition known as the Paralympic Games. A quadrennial multi-sport competition for individuals with specific impairments, the Paralympic Games, is explored in this thesis through the method of semi-structured interviews. Individuals interviewed included current and former Paralympians, active and retired disability sport administrators as well as social researchers of disability and disability sport. A number of themes surface in this research which identifies and begins to explore the relationships between the
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