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Two typically convoluted examples from papers presented at this year's BSA conference.

Roy Boyne, Durham University

"What follows from this is that some of the fundamental sociological divides, such as those between theory and method, empiricism and idealism, structure and agency, will never be definitively transcended, since the ur-division between what is given and what may be to come is immanent to not merely the discipline of sociology but the ontological structure of the world (despite the character of the contemporary cultural condition which is increasingly to deny the existence of a basic rupture in the fabric of lived temporality)."

Sophie Belcher, Tia DeNora, Exeter University

"Thinking aboutthe body as aconstruction, and not merely in the weak sense of its constructed 'representations', leads to the question of how bodily reality isproduced and reproduced in real time. This paper uses ethnographic and music-analystical observationsas a springboard into a 'strong' constructivism of the body and its cultural temporal 'composition'."