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When Sport Fandom Meets Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Experiences
Kim Toffoletti and Katherine Sveinson
My Ambitionz az a Qualitative Ridah1: A 2PAC Analysis of the Black Male Baller in Amerikkka2
C. Keith Harrison, Rhema Fuller, Whitney Griffin, Scott Bukstein, Danielle McArdle, and Steven Barnhart
critiques of current paradigms as well as methods for social change ( Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995 ). Thus, this unique study recruited a naturalistic and interpretive qualitative research design to translate 2PAC’s lyrical content as a prism to view the nonbinary realities of the black male athlete
Men, Physical Activity, and the Obesity Discourse: Critical Understandings from a Qualitative Study
Lee F. Monaghan
This article explores men’s talk about physical activity, weight, health and slimming. Drawing from qualitative data from men whom medicine might label overweight or obese, it outlines various ideal typical ways of orienting to the idea that physical activity promotes “healthy” weight loss before exploring the most critical display of perspective: justifiable resistance and defiance. This gendered mode of accountability comprises numerous themes. These range from the inefficiency of physical activity in promoting weight loss to resisting imposed discipline. Theoretically and politically, these data are read as a situationally fitting and meaningful response to “symbolic violence” in a field of “masculine domination” (Bourdieu 2001)—that is, a society in which fatness is routinely discredited as feminine and feminizing filth by institutions that are publicly reinforcing and amplifying fatphobic norms or sizism.
White College Students’ Explanations of White (and Black) Athletic Performance: A Qualitative Investigation of White College Students
C. Keith Harrison, Suzanne Malia Lawrence, and Scott J. Bukstein
While the sport sociology community has had a long-running conversation about the relationship between athletes’ success and race, there are few empirical investigations of individuals’ attitudes regarding the connection of race and athletic performance. This study on White college students’ explanations of White (and African American) athleticism attempts to push this discussion of race and sport. Using a qualitative, open-ended question we elicited explanations from White college students about athletic performance. Findings revealed that White students explained White athleticism through discussions of African American athleticism. In addition, White student participants avoided biological explanations regarding White athletes’ success.
A Qualitative Assessment of the Significance of Body Perception to Women’s Physical Activity Experiences: Revisiting Discussions of Physicalities
Lisa McDermott
This paper builds upon an earlier exploratory discussion about the term physicality that called for conceptual clarity regarding our theoretical understanding and use of it within the context of women’s lives. In light of fieldwork conducted, physicality is suggested to be the complex interplay of body perception, agency, and self-perception. This article focuses on examining one feature of this construct by assessing the relevance of body perception to two groups of women’s experiences of their physicalities through two differently gendered activities: aerobics and wilderness canoe-tripping. Pivotal to this has been qualitatively understanding the lived-body as experienced and understood by the women. In-depth interviews and participant observation were used to explore the meaning and significance these women derived from experiencing their bodies/themselves through these activities. Of specific interest was understanding the effects of these experiences in terms of shaping their understandings of their physicalities particularly beyond that of appearance. Central to this has been apprehending the physically and socially empowering effects of these experiences, especially at the level of their identity. Through the data analysis, body perception was found to be relevant to the women’s physical activity involvement in two distinct ways: as a factor initiating activity involvement and as a perception emerging through the experience. In turn, these differing perceptions of the body were found to impact diversely upon their physicalities, either broadening them or contributing to alternative ways of understanding them.
New Writing Practices in Qualitative Research
Laurel Richardson
New writing practices in qualitative research include evocative writing—a research practice through which we can investigate how we construct the world, ourselves, and others, and how standard objectifying practices of social science unnecessarily limit us and social science. Evocative representations do not take writing for granted but offer multiple ways of thinking about a topic, reaching diverse audiences, and nurturing the writer. They also offer an opportunity for rethinking criteria used to judge research and reconsidering institutional practices and their effects on community. Language is a constitutive force, creating a particular view of reality and the Self. No textual staging is ever innocent (including this one). Styles of writing are neither fixed nor neutral but reflect the historically shifting domination of particular schools or paradigms. Social scientific writing, like all other forms of writing, is a sociohistorical construction, and, therefore, mutable.
Qualitative Research for Physical Culture
Anu M. Vaittinen
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”
Matthew Lamont
their preconceived perspective on phenomena being investigated, weighed against the obligation of qualitative researchers to declare their bias. However, Gruppetta argued that a phenomenologist’s autobiography and established interest in the phenomena at hand may be harnessed, as declaration of the
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage
Steven M. Ortiz
-management strategies the wives have learned to use in marital interactions that can lead to their continued subordination after their husbands retire. Third, I focus on care work and examine how it is provided in the sport marriage. Fourth, I describe the qualitative methods used in collecting and analyzing data
“A Lot of What We Ride Is Their Land”: White Settler Canadian Understandings of Mountain Biking, Indigeneity, and Recreational Colonialism
John Reid-Hresko and Jeff R. Warren
, & King, 2019 ; Simpson & Bagelman, 2017 ), we utilized the data gathering strategies of participant observation and semistructured qualitative interviews. We conducted hundreds of hours of participant observation during 2019, discussing our research topic with riders at trailhead parking lots and while
