2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 43: Sport and Social Theory 3

8 Jun 2022, 15:30

Description

Chair: Parissa Safai
Room: N14, Building C Level 3

144. Dancing Children and The Process of Socialization

Sanjana Tewari

08/06/2022, 15:30

The paper presents the socializing role of dance as an artistic and sports discipline in children’s life. As children grow and mature, they need to experience an ongoing process of social interactions, which enables them to develop the skills they need to participate in human society. The influence of activity or movement on the process of socialization of an individual and a group plays a...

145. Sociology of Sport as a diverse and inclusive community

Lone Thing, Stine Frydendal, Laila Susanne Ottesen

08/06/2022, 15:50

This paper will be debating the numerous perspectives in the sociology of sport in the European context to critically reflect upon different editorial essays writing about the topic over time (Donnelly 2004; Malcolm 2018). The paper will be focusing on several issues related to the debate. First we analyse what Malcolm (2018) name the apparent “threats and opportunities” facing sociology of...

146. Using the capability approach in participatory research projects for physical activity: Guidelines for implementation

Maike Till, Karim Abu-Omar, Susanne Ferschl, Thomas Abel, Klaus Pfeifer, Peter Gelius

08/06/2022, 16:10

Objectives
Sen’s capability approach has recently received increasing attention in health promotion. However, there is little guidance on how to use the approach in actual project work. This study used the experience from four physical activity projects to develop a framework and guidelines for the effective application of the approach.
Methods
We first developed a theoretical model and...

147. Rewriting the future: Alternatives to ‘the present’ (and presence of) capitalist realism in elite European football

David Webber

08/06/2022, 16:30

For more than thirty years, capitalism has been presented as the only realistic political and economic framework around which society (let alone elite European football) can be organised. Drawing upon the cultural analysis offered by the late Mark Fisher, this paper seeks to diagnose and explore the effects that ‘capitalist realism’, as critically interrogated by Fisher, has had upon the...