{"title":"Speaking of the self and understanding physical activity participation: what discursive psychology can tell us about an old problem","authors":"Kerry R. McGannon, J. Spence","doi":"10.1080/19398440903510145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903510145","url":null,"abstract":"Since McGannon and Mauws' article on discursive psychology and adherence to physical activity, papers have extended the dialogue towards developing associated qualitative research methods to understand sport and exercise. The present article furthers this dialogue in the context of understanding the self and women's physical activity participation using discursive psychology and discourse analysis. An example of discursive psychology ‘in use’ was employed to theorise women's physical self (i.e. who they are) and physical activity behaviour as a collection of conversations within broader discourse(s). The power relations perpetuated by a micro‐talk within discourses also contributed towards theorising a discursive psychological view of the self and physical activity participation. The implications of a discursive psychological view of the self combined with discourse analysis for understanding women's physical participation are discussed within the context of this example.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"18 1","pages":"17 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82412900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘When do I get to run on with the magic sponge?’ The twin illusions of meritocracy and democracy in the professions of sports medicine and physiotherapy","authors":"I. McEwan, W. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/19398440903510178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903510178","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the experiences of healthcare professionals involved in sports medicine in the UK. We are concerned with the inter‐ and intra‐professional relationships found between groups such as medical practitioners and physiotherapists. Drawing on interview data gleaned from doctors, physiotherapists and academics working within sports medicine and education, we provide a Bourdieusian reading of the experiences and professional lives of individuals involved in elite sports medicine provision. Findings suggest that sports medicine practitioners are subject to relationships of power, resistance and compliance. This highlights the shifting landscape of professional emplotments at a time when elite sports medicine in the UK is being foregrounded as a prerequisite to performance excellence.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"30 1","pages":"77 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90879083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of <i>marianismo</i> beliefs on physical activity of mid-life immigrant Latinas: a Photovoice study.","authors":"Karen T D'Alonzo, Manoj Sharma","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488031","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Various explanations have been proposed to explain the low levels of physical activity among Latinas. Included is the construct <b><i>marianismo,</i></b> which describes the influence of cultural beliefs on gender role identity, including prioritisation of familial responsibilities over self-care. The purpose of the study was to explore the influence of <b><i>marianismo</i></b> beliefs on participation in habitual and incidental physical activity among middle-aged immigrant Hispanic women, using a community- based participatory research approach and Photovoice methodology. Eight immigrant Hispanic women were given digital cameras and asked to photograph typical daily routines, including household activities, family/childcare and occupational responsibilities. Subjects then met to discuss their impressions. Data were analysed using Spradley's Developmental Research Sequence. Results revealed that a combination of <b><i>marianismo</i></b> beliefs and socioeconomic pressures appeared to negatively influence women's ability to participate in physical activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"2 2","pages":"229-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361111/pdf/nihms-1004648.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36983558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A sport odyssey","authors":"V. Krane","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192316","url":null,"abstract":"In sport and fitness, personal meanings of physicality are negotiated and contested, and many women are empowered by the self‐definition of physicality. Physically active women push their physical and mental limits. In doing so, they also construct and reconstruct personal identity and social conventions. Physicality offers a sense of protection and the perceived ability to ward off potential attack or heal past victimisation. In this personal tale, I employ hybridity, or multi‐genre writing styles, to shed light on the construction and negotiation of identities through physical activity and sport. In this paper, I insert my voice and use my experiences to reflect upon the social constructions of sport, gender and identity. I frame sport as an odyssey, a long wandering, in which my personal identities transform in reaction to changing personal, social and cultural circumstances.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"89 1","pages":"221 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81251722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sporting embodiment: sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology","authors":"Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192340","url":null,"abstract":"Whilst in recent years sports studies have addressed the calls ‘to bring the body back in’ to theorisations of sport and physical activity, the ‘promise of phenomenology’ remains largely under‐realised with regard to sporting embodiment. Relatively few accounts are grounded in the ‘flesh’ of the lived sporting body, and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such analysis. A wide‐ranging, multi‐stranded and interpretatively contested perspective phenomenology in general has been taken up and utilised in very different ways within different disciplinary fields. The purpose of this article is to consider some selected phenomenological threads, key qualities of the phenomenological method and the potential for existentialist phenomenology in particular to contribute fresh perspectives to the sociological study of embodiment in sport and exercise. It offers one way to convey the ‘essences’, corporeal immediacy and textured sensuosity of the lived sporting body. The use of interpretative phenomenological analysis is also critically addressed.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"2 1","pages":"279 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85469084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The structure of (social) scientific contradictions: a commentary on the problem of paradigmatic behaviour by social scientists","authors":"M. Weed","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192365","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary I discuss the utility of Thomas Kuhn’s perspectives on ‘paradigms’, the conduct of ‘normal science’ and the nature of scientific progress and debate over time for understanding the conduct of debate in the social sciences (of, in this case, sport). I argue that although the social sciences do not possess the paradigm‐relative structure of the natural sciences, this does not prevent social scientists from acting as though they do. Using the debate on judging research quality in sport in QRSE 1(2) as an illustrative example, I argue that paradigmatic behaviour by social scientists, which casts debates in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ can have two consequences. Firstly, because debates are undertaken with the purpose of fully converting ‘them’ (the ‘other’) to ‘our’ point of view, debates do not benefit from the consideration of the implications of ‘others’ critiques for one’s own position. Secondly, rather than engagement in a genuine argument, paradigmatic behaviour can reduce debates to mere contradiction of the position of the ‘other’, with the dismissal of ‘their’ position being justified on the basis that it is derived from an incommensurable paradigm. The implications of such paradigmatic behaviours are that they diminish the quality of debate surrounding difficult issues around the nature of knowledge and science as applied to sport research, and ultimately adversely affect the quality of knowledge that sport research generates.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"17 1","pages":"312 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89434607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parents' perspectives on the practice of high school sport in a Canadian context","authors":"Martin Camiré, P. Trudel, T. Forneris","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192324","url":null,"abstract":"Although there are a number of studies that have examined youth development in organised activities, few have been conducted in sport‐specific contexts. The purpose of this study was to document parents' perspectives on the practice of high school sport in a Canadian context. A qualitative methodology was employed and 20 parents who had at least one child participating in high school sports were selected to participate in interviews. Results indicated that: (1) parents believed they emotionally, financially and/or logistically supported their children's high school sport participation and that an evolution occurred in their role as providers of supportive behaviours, (2) a large portion of parents believed high school sports should prioritise pleasure and participation but some parents acknowledged that competition becomes increasingly emphasised as athletes get older, (3) parents believed the ideal high school coach should be supportive, motivating and encouraging, and (4) parents believed high school sport participation promotes the acquisition of positive skills and attributes that benefit youth's physical, social and academic development.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"26 1","pages":"239 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90433203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering instructors: play, pain and pedagogy","authors":"W. Strean","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192290","url":null,"abstract":"This study was undertaken to examine how coaches and teachers can contribute to making sport and physical education more fun for children. Twenty‐four retrospective accounts resulted in five major themes: (1) personal characteristics of instructors/coaches, (2) learning environments, (3) peak moments in low‐organised activities, (4) social aspects, and (5) lessons from negative experiences. Results are discussed in relation to fun, enjoyment and happiness in youth sport and physical education.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"364 1","pages":"210 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77754331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Alicia in Wonderland’ at the ‘Little Lleyton Open’: selected Australian newspapers’ narratives about Alicia Molik and Lleyton Hewitt at the centennial Australian Open","authors":"J. Vincent, J. Crossman","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192332","url":null,"abstract":"Three Australian newspapers’ narratives about Australian tennis players Lleyton Hewitt and Alicia Molik competing in the centennial Australian Open Championships were examined. Articles in The Australian, The Age and The Times Herald were analysed during the two‐week period coinciding with the Open. Textual analysis was used to examine how the newspapers’ gendered narratives intersected with nationalistic discourses about the two hometown favourites. The narratives about Hewitt were complex and contradictory. Several journalists criticised his remonstrations against the court surface and the Australian tennis establishment. Early in the tournament Hewitt was portrayed as unpatriotic and petulant, in a ‘little big man’ oxymoron, which also served to question his aggressive on‐court demeanour and posturing, and by implication his hegemonic masculinity. However, as Hewitt progressed to the final many of the narratives praised his performance of hegemonic masculinity and defined him as a ‘patriot at play’, quintessentially Australian, with character traits that would resonate with the Australian ‘imagined community’. In comparison, the narratives about Molik generally defied the usual type of gendered language reserved for female tennis players. Molik was defined through her South Australian identity, her athletic ability, and her self‐belief, control and courage. These findings suggest that the selected newspapers’ hometown rooting or nationalistic discourses had at least, in part, subsumed the gendered narratives that frequently frame female and male athletes. This implies that in major international sporting events such as Grand Slam tennis tournaments the national identity of local competitors can override other identity markers such as gender.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"44 1","pages":"258 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76475493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The epistemology of qualitative research into sport: ethical and erotetic?","authors":"G. Mcfee","doi":"10.1080/19398440903192357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903192357","url":null,"abstract":"The paper urges that researches into the social scientific aspects of sport centrally depend on distinctive epistemological assumptions, ignored at researchers’ peril. Given the ‘question‐and‐answer’ (i.e. erotetic) relation between research questions and research methods in sport, ‘qualitative research’ into sport is best recognised as research dealing with persons viewed as persons. But such interpersonal conceptions automatically import an ethical dimension; and much of this research will involve a degree of covertness. How can such research designs be accommodated, given the scientism prevalent in sports studies? As an epistemological argument, the presentation is largely given abstractly. One part of that argument lies in recognising just how pervasive such scientism is: even an explicit rejection of scientism (fuelled by postmodernism, perhaps) can still take its bearings from a scientistic account of truth – that is what is being denied! Further, such denial can seem to be a rejection of the concept of truth. But the search for truth is fundamental to any research worth the name. So a second part articulates a conception of human truth. Such a conception can be given a philosophical underpinning by a particularist contextualism, although this is merely sketched in the paper. A third consideration lays out the distinctiveness of this account of truth, highlighting its appropriateness to social research, given its congruence with the picture of ‘research into persons’ from which the paper began.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"26 1","pages":"297 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83784499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}