Description
Chair: Astrid Schubring
Room: 7E02, Building HZM Ground Floor
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Felix Kühnle6/8/22, 1:30 PM
In the societal discourse surrounding depression as a widespread disease, there are frequent reports about depressed elite athletes. Further, the scientific debate on depression in athletes is also gaining momentum. However, research on the subject has been dominated by sports psychiatrists and sports psychologists. By contrast, sociological perspectives that observe the phenomenon as a social...
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Michal Lenartowicz6/8/22, 1:50 PM
Objectives
The main goal of the project was describing sport careers of Polish professional Mixed Martial Arts athletes and analyze the culture of risk they act within.
Methods
88 MMA athletes were surveyed. In-depth interviews were carried out with 15 athletes from the surveyed group. Mean age of respondents was 27,5 years. Over half of athletes completed graduate studies. All...
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Jochen Mayer, Felix Kühnle, Luisa Dörnenburg, Ansgar Thiel6/8/22, 2:10 PM
Providing an appropriate environment for successful athlete development is a highly complex endeavor for elite sports systems. Given the lack of suitable organizational development approaches in this regard, we have designed what we call the “PRIO-Intervention.” It is an athlete-focused organizational development instrument for elite sports networks that follows a participatory approach....
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Minhyeok Tak, Yoon Jin Kim, Daniel Rhind6/8/22, 2:30 PM
Elite sporting culture in South Korea has often been likened to ‘Silmi-do’ in the country, a remote island where a military special force was trained to invade Pyongyang in the 1960s, owing to the nature of the system, including its coercive training, cultural isolation and neglect of athletes’ human rights. A sociological edition of this line of public discourse can be sought from Goffman’s...
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