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  title info:
    title: Social Structure as an Embodied Experience
  name:
    name part: Chouinard, James Babson
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Meštrović, Stjepan
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: An overarching goal of my dissertation is to delineate social systemic processes as first and foremost embodied, experiential processes. I argue that such processes manifest through and depend upon the organism's affective integration with her environment. Whereby, I delineate concepts like alienation and agency as manifesting through an affective intelligibility. Symbolic alienation, then, represents a circumstance in which institutional narratives purport moral or aesthetic truths that denigrate and deny the organism's affective understanding of a circumstance. Agentic growth refers to the organism's affective adaptation to an environment. Such growth follows from the process of working through experiential discordance (i.e., the disturbance of experiential flow or continuity) and manifests as a new-found sense of trust and understanding. Experiential discordance is an unavoidable occurrence because the organism-environment relationship is a dynamic one. If the organism is unable to mitigate and repair such discordance, she will face the threat of traumatization. Furthermore, those who disrupt the conventional-institutional organization or channeling of experience take on the character of dirt and thereby represent a dirty Other. If institutions react to the troubling, dirty Other by means of systemic repression, rather than genuine communication and reintegration, then said dirty Other takes on the character of shit. In such a circumstance, the presence of the dirty Other likely reveals deep, social systemic inadequacies and thereby ruptures the collective's existential confidence and praxeological competence. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358
  note: by James Babson Chouinard.
  note: "Major Subject: Sociology"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Embodiment
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of the Body
  subject:
    topic: Dirt
  subject:
    topic: Shit
  subject:
    topic: Trust
  subject:
    topic: Trauma
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalytic Sociology
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140130
    record change date: 20151206091646.0
    record identifier: in00003430638
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng