Body & Society. L. Wacquant. 'Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour Among Professional Boxers'

Its rapid growth and extreme dispertion not withstanding, the newer sociology of the body has paid surprisingly little focused attention to the diverse ways in which specific social worlds invest, shape, and deploy human bodies and to the concrete incorporating practices whereby their social structures are effectively embodied by the agents who partake of them. This article purports to address this gap by way of an ethnographic inquiry into the social structuring of bodily capital and bodily labour among professional fighters in am American metropolis.