2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 21: Sport, Physical Activity and Social Groups 2

Jun 8, 2022, 11:00 AM

Description

Chair: Noora Ronkainen
Room: C9A03, Building C Level 9

68. Working with vulnerable groups. An ethnographic study with a task unit for promoting active recreation and health of minority groups

Sine Agergaard, Verena Lenneis

6/8/22, 11:00 AM

While increasing attention within studies of sports and physical activity is directed towards social groups that are described as vulnerable in one sense or the other, less attention has been given to the sports and health care professionals (and volunteers) who work with such groups. This paper aims to contribute to fill this research gap in examining a task unit of health professionals’ ways...

69. 'Before lockdown going out, seeing other children was the main priority': Physical activity with pre-school children during Covid-19 and beyond.

Georgia Allen-Baker, Philippa Velija

6/8/22, 11:20 AM

Objectives: Prior to Covid-19, we highlighted the growth of franchises and companies offering enrichment activities for the early years (0-5 years) market. However, the pandemic saw unprecedented restrictions placed on all aspects of life. As a result, the once everyday family routines suddenly changed and regular leisure activities were cancelled. We sought to explore how physical activity...

70. Patterns of Physical Activity and Sports During COVID-19: A Social Stratification Perspective

Jeroen Scheerder, Erik Thibaut, Veerle De Bosscher, Margot Ricour, Annick Willem

6/8/22, 11:40 AM

Objectives
This study focuses on active participation in physical activity and sports after the introduction of the COVID-19 lockdown. An overview is given of how and to what extent adults experienced the imposed measures and their impacts. Since all organized and subsidized sports activities and facilities were shut down during the lockdown, one could consider the lockdown as a...

71. How COVID-19 influences how people practice and think about sports participation, and this on different moments during the pandemic

Erik Thibaut, Jeroen Scheerder

6/8/22, 12:00 PM

Objectives

The focus of this study is on how sports participants have been impacted by COVID-19, and its related measures, and this on different moments in the pandemic. More particularly, we aim to investigate how sports participants’ behaviour and motivations have changed (i) on different phases during the COVID-19 pandemic and this for (ii) both adults and their children....