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Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics
Qualitative sociology
15 Jan 2025
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Abstract
The perspectives of skilled experts who help learners develop and improve bodily skills has not often been examined in sociology. In this paper, I focus on the role of selective sensory engagement with moving bodies as an important way of knowing through which skilled experts assess and intervene upon the skill acquisition of learners. I bring together literature on body pedagogics with literature on sociology of the senses to understand how embodied, sensorial knowledge is an inter-corporeal and intersubjective resource for the transmission of bodily skills. I use interviews with barbell coaches and yoga teachers in the United States to understand the processes by which these skilled experts construct ‘good form’ and its normative limits and I outline three interrelated processes of sensorial knowing through which barbell coaches and yoga teachers help their paying clients achieve ‘good form’ when learning to engage in these fitness cultures. I argue that that the use and training of the senses in body pedagogics is an understudied but essential way of knowing to understand the transmission and embodiment of culture.
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- Title
- Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics
- Creators
- Kelly Eileen Underman (Corresponding Author) - Drexel University, Sociology
- Publication Details
- Qualitative sociology
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 25
- Grant note
- College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel UniversitySociology Department Faculty Development Fund at Drexel University
I wish to thank the Sociology Department Faculty Development Fund at Drexel University for providing the funds for this research. I also wish to thank Danielle Giffort, Lauren D. Olsen, and Paige L. Sweet for comments on prior versions of this manuscript. Finally, I would like to thank my co-panelists and attendees of the session "Educating, Disciplining, and/or Empowering Bodies" of the 2023 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting for feedback on this manuscript.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001396157500001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-86000387134
- Other Identifier
- 991022019120504721
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