2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 65: Sport and the Body 1

Jun 10, 2022, 9:00 AM

Description

Chair: Michael Mutz
Room: N6, Building HZM 1st Floor

211. Dynamics of Coaching of Bodybuilding Fitness in an Online Environment: A Social Media Ethnography Approach

Airnel Abarra, Tamás Doczi

6/10/22, 9:00 AM

Studying Bodybuilding and Fitness as a sport discipline involves an individual and actual approach (Bunsell, 2012), as most practitioners of these disciplines prefer personal contact and rely on the trust of their coaches and immediate community. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the coaches and their athletes had limited personal engagement in terms of training and many coaches and...

212. “Lots of parents misinterpret it…” A study of the construction of body image in young people’s use of social media

Stine Frydendal, Lone Friis Thing

6/10/22, 9:20 AM

The increasing digitalization of society offers a wealth of opportunities for adolescents. But to comprehend the many enabling aspects, it’s important also to recognize the constraining aspects of technology. Sociologically, there is a generation divide between youth as digital natives and older generations as digital immigrants. In recent years, the use of digital technology in relation to...

213. The Ultra-Running Memoir as Self-Help Manual: Neoliberalisation, the Body and Longevity

Anthony Tomkins

6/10/22, 9:40 AM

With its horizonal pursuit of longer distances stretching to and beyond one hundred miles, ultra-running is the contemporary neoliberal sport par excellence. Participation in races of this length requires a meticulously trained body and the willingness to endure physical and mental degradation. Over hours, runners excavate the energetic resources of their athletic frames, mirroring...

233. Sweat, Drugs & Goals: Sport Addicts' Embodiment of Hypernormativity

Nicolas Moreau, Emmanuelle Larocque, Annie Jaimes, Florence Vinit, Matthieu Quidu, Brice Favier-Ambrosini

6/10/22, 10:00 AM

This presentation explores how the embodied knowledge and lived experience of sports’ addicts contributes to a greater understanding of sport addiction, a concept that has been debated since its first appearance in scientific literature in the 1970s. More precisely, we want to grasp: 1) the process of self-identification and self-justification of an addictive relationship to sport; 2) how...