INTER-Encyclopedia: Body Mapping

The article discusses the methodological features and heuristic boundaries of the method of implementing a qualitative research strategy in sociology — body mapping. In addition to describing the advantages of this method in health and disease research, as well as other areas related to the social cognition of physicality, a brief overview of the methodological steps that must be followed when using body mapping is provided. The stages of the introduction of this method into sociological disciplines from art therapy practices are described, in which body mapping has demonstrated itself as a non-standard way of obtaining extralinguistic information.