Description:
The article is devoted to contemporary sociological theorizing that characterizes by a shift of research interests to the micro-social phenomena and processes, resulting actualization of corporeality in the frames of sociological discourse. The author stresses that the process of corporeality formation as the central object of sociological analysis is determined by a group of factors with exogenous (external to science) and endogenous (within the science) content. The main idea of the article is that parallelism of existent methodological changes inside of sociological knowledge in the synthesis with qualitative transformations in the social reality at the turn of the 50-60s of XX century further actualization of the phenomenon of «corporeality» on the level of sociological reflection.