The Embodied Mind: Building on Wacquant’s Carnal Sociology

Karen A. Cerulo

doi:10.1007/s11133-014-9296-6

The Embodied Mind: Building on Wacquant’s Carnal Sociology

Karen A. Cerulo

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Abstract

This essay responds to Wacquant’s call for a “Carnal Sociology”—an approach best realized through a method Wacquant calls “enactive ethnography.” In this essay, I explore the ways in which certain aspects of Wacquant’s carnal sociology—specifically the sentient, the sedimented and the situated—can enhance our understanding of cognition and meaning-making. I reference an ongoing research project on the deciphering of olfactory messages to make my case.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	33-38
Number of pages	6
Journal	Qualitative Sociology
Volume	38
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-014-9296-6
State	Published - Mar 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Sociology and Political Science

Keywords

Action
Cognition
Culture
Embodiment
Mind and brain
The senses

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