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Visual Micro-Sociology and the Sociology of Flesh and Blood: Comment on Wacquant

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Embodied sociology is compared to the micro-sociology of violence in understanding bodily-emotional-interactional processes in lived time. Besides the phenomenology of the researcher’s own bodily experience, a combination of methods are useful, including emotional expressions and rhythms seen through observation, photos, and videos, and informed interviewing. Combined methods give a larger picture of all the participants on the scene. Viewed more broadly, one of things we find is that embodied actors are not equally skilled, but are situationally stratified by confrontations among persons with differing degrees of competence andincompetence in micro-interactional skills.

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Collins, R. Visual Micro-Sociology and the Sociology of Flesh and Blood: Comment on Wacquant. Qual Sociol 38, 13–17 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-014-9297-5

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