Trying to fit in - upper secondary school students' negotiation processes between sports culture and youth culture
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Trying to fit in - upper secondary school students' negotiation processes between sports culture and youth culture. / Nielsen, Stine Frydendal; Thing, Lone Friis.
In: International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2019, p. 445-458.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Trying to fit in - upper secondary school students' negotiation processes between sports culture and youth culture
AU - Nielsen, Stine Frydendal
AU - Thing, Lone Friis
N1 - CURIS 2019 NEXS 168
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In this paper we present results concerning how students in a Danish upper secondary school negotiate between sports culture and the prevailing norms of youth culture in a local school context. The study shows that it can be rather difficult for young people to combine sports culture with the local youth culture, because living a healthy and physically active life doesn’t fit very well with the prevailing norms of youth culture, which involve a dominant social arena characterized by parties and alcohol. By applying the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, this article shows that being included in a sports figuration can result in exclusion from the youth figuration. Young athletic students are therefore in a constant process of negotiation, where they struggle to fit into both sport and non-sport related contexts, because it is important to belong within both. The study is based on 16 focus group interviews [N=120] conducted over four years in one Danish upper secondary school.
AB - In this paper we present results concerning how students in a Danish upper secondary school negotiate between sports culture and the prevailing norms of youth culture in a local school context. The study shows that it can be rather difficult for young people to combine sports culture with the local youth culture, because living a healthy and physically active life doesn’t fit very well with the prevailing norms of youth culture, which involve a dominant social arena characterized by parties and alcohol. By applying the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, this article shows that being included in a sports figuration can result in exclusion from the youth figuration. Young athletic students are therefore in a constant process of negotiation, where they struggle to fit into both sport and non-sport related contexts, because it is important to belong within both. The study is based on 16 focus group interviews [N=120] conducted over four years in one Danish upper secondary school.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Figurational sociology
KW - Focus group interviews
KW - Physical education
KW - School-based research
KW - Sports culture
KW - Youth culture
U2 - 10.1177/1012690217725906
DO - 10.1177/1012690217725906
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 445
EP - 458
JO - International Review for the Sociology of Sport
JF - International Review for the Sociology of Sport
SN - 1012-6902
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 182577181