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From Outsider to Established - Explaining the Current Popularity and Acceptability of Tattooing

Vom Außenseiter zum Etablierten - Erklärungen zur aktuellen Popularität und Akzeptanz von Tätowierungen
[journal article]

Rees, Michael

Abstract

Tattooing is a practice long associated with social outsiders – sailors, criminals, bikers and women of disrepute. In recent years, however, the practice has become increasingly popular, and acceptable, in mainstream culture as these marks of distinction appear on an ever greater number of bodies. D... view more

Tattooing is a practice long associated with social outsiders – sailors, criminals, bikers and women of disrepute. In recent years, however, the practice has become increasingly popular, and acceptable, in mainstream culture as these marks of distinction appear on an ever greater number of bodies. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, academic literature, and content analysis of popular media, I propose that four inter-related developments have contributed to the redefinition of tattooing: the increasing importance of the body as a site for constructing identity; processes of cultural diversity and globalization; the increased visibility of the practice in popular culture; and attempts to legitimise the practice as an acceptable art form both within academia and popular culture. By drawing together these inter-related developments this paper demonstrates how Elias’ theories of established-outsider relations provides an understanding of the processes that lead to changing statuses for certain cultural practices.... view less

Keywords
Elias, N.; tattoo; social relations; body; social inequality; group; popularity; cultural diversity; stigmatization; identity formation; sociology of the body; identity; acceptance; popular culture; marginality

Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature

Free Keywords
Sociogenesis; established and outsider relations

Document language
English

Publication Year
2016

Page/Pages
p. 157-174

Journal
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 3

Issue topic
Figurational Analysis as Historical and Comparative Method: Established-Outsider Relations

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.3.157-174

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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