The content of the special issue on the physicality of a sleeping person of the interdisciplinary journal Body & society is con-sidered in the context of: areas of scientific interests and affiliation of authors, methodology, nature of empirical materials used by the authors and applied research methods, ideas about the possible range of use of the results obtained, as well as determining key trends in the analysis of social and socio-cultural aspects of sleep.
Keywords
physicality; sleeper; bed; bedroom; dwelling; culture and quality of sleep.