Limits of corporality: concept and meaning

Nemtseva Anna Vladimirovna

The article justifies the application of the theory of social constructivism as a methodological basis for the study of corporality. The author relies on the understanding of corporality as a phenomenon that arose at the junction of the natural and sociocultural dimensions of being, acting in the form of a cultural code that also has symbolic and semantic significance and performs socially significant functions. It is proposed to investigate physicality by determining and theoretically extending the boundaries of its distribution. The process of becoming corporality by «displacement» of its internal and external boundaries is shown, including the role of normative boundaries in the design of corporality. The significance of the boundaries of the phenomenon of «corporality» in the act of its existence was revealed.

Keywords:corporality, limits of corporality, sense, value, social constructivism, body, functions, activity.