Boxing, the Gym, and Men The Mark of the Fist
This book explores the lived experiences of boxers in a French banlieue, largely populated by people from working-class and immigrant backgrounds. Jérôme Beauchez, who joined in the men’s daily workouts for many years, analyzes the act of boxing as a high
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Boxing, the Gym, and Men The Mark of the Fist Jérôme Beauchez
Cultural Sociology Series editors Jeffrey C. Alexander Center for Cultural Sociology Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Ron Eyerman Center for Cultural Sociology Yale University New Haven, CT, USA David Inglis Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology University of Aberdeen Exeter, Aberdeenshire, UK Philip Smith Department of Sociology Yale University Branford, CT, USA
Cultural sociology is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant areas of inquiry in the social sciences across the world today. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in Cultural Sociology is dedicated to the proposition that deep meanings make a profound difference in social life. Culture is not simply the glue that holds society together, a crutch for the weak, or a mystifying ideology that conceals power. Nor is it just practical knowledge, dry schemas, or know how. The series demonstrates how shared and circulating patterns of meaning actively and inescapably penetrate the social. Through codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations, these culture structures drive human action, inspire social movements, direct and build institutions, and so come to shape history. The series takes its lead from the cultural turn in the humanities, but insists on rigorous social science methods and aims at empirical explanations. Contributions engage in thick interpretations but also account for behavioral outcomes. They develop cultural theory but also deploy middle-range tools to challenge reductionist understandings of how the world actually works. In so doing, the books in this series embody the spirit of cultural sociology as an intellectual enterprise. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14945
Jérôme Beauchez
Boxing, the Gym, and Men The Mark of the Fist
Jérôme Beauchez Centre Max Weber Université de Lyon Saint-Etienne, France Translated by Michael C. Behrent
Cultural Sociology ISBN 978-3-319-56028-1 ISBN 978-3-319-56029-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56029-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017938298 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2014, 2018 Translation from the French language edition: L’empreinte du poing. La boxe, le gymnase et ses hommes by Jérôme Beauchez, © Editions de l'EHESS 2014. All rights reserved. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protec
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