Young Working Class Men in Transition uses a unique blend of concepts from the
sociologies of youth and masculinity combined with Bourdieusian social theory to …

News reports and online comments suggest that social media applications like TikTok play
an important role in challenging traditional notions of masculinity. Male creators who don …

Ideal bodies are constituted through various social and cultural discourses. One such
discourse that constitutes bodies is the “obesity” discourse. The term obesity is a contested …

The body's active role in the production of gendered embodiments is a key focus for feminist
cultural studies and leisure studies. The article draws on new materialist feminist scholarship …

Ugly feelings are 'weak, nasty'and enduring feelings which have particular socio-cultural
significance and functions in neoliberal contexts. Drawing on a qualitative study of women's …

The importance of the Physical Education (PE) teacher's body, particularly for teaching PE,
has been highlighted in literature. PE teachers are expected to be clear role models to …

Singer Billy Eilish appears on the June 2021 cover of British Vogue having transformed her
style and appearance. Where Eilish previously wore limegreen highlights in her hair and …

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood,'Youth'is a key period of transition. It
can be difficult to define and make sense of this period in one's life. However it is …

This article advances a sociological perspective on how people use prototypes to
understand social categories. Prototypes are mental representations of best-fitting cases …

To our knowledge, no previous large‐scale study has examined the prevalences and
correlates of having only easily concealed tattoos, or readily visible tattoos. We conducted …