Body and Its Social-cultural Indications

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Although human physical figure has numerous social-cultural indications, pioneers of sociologists have not considered its study so much. This paper is prepared for signalizing the importance of studying body, sociologically. So, writer has tried to achieve following aims in a frame of theoretical analysis:
-          Introducing sociology of body;
-          Investigating the reasons that pioneers of sociologists neglect to study body;
-          Investigating growth areas of studying body sociologically, in recent years;
-          Investigating social-cultural indications of body.
Mentioned viewpoints indicate this fact that sociological necessities of body are insomuch that we can not account it as a just physical and biological nature. Sociological study of body, not only nurturing our sight to convergence of society and individual, but contributing inner growth of sociology by nurturing convergence of  sociology and some other scientific courses.