Le sport en prison : entre insertion et paix sociale. Jeux, enjeux et relations de pouvoirs à travers les pratiques corporelles de la jeunesse masculine incarcérée
This paper examines the utilisation of light sailing within school sport programmes in Western France and California. Sailing has been identified as a key activity for upper class participation in both France and the USA because it heavily involves intellectual skills, including preparation, tactical decision making, leadership and problem solving. Following on from this, we develop the social class concepts of Pierre Bourdieu (1979) to demonstrate how cultural and economic capitals are sought after and reproduced in comparative school sailing environments to maintain upper class social values and positions. We highlight interview commentary and field observations from a 1.5-year comparative ethnographic study of youth sailors and supporting adults, including coaches, teachers and parents. Our findings indicate that Western French and Californian upper class student sailors and their adult supporters are differentiated from each other in terms of how they prioritise either economic or cultural capital acquisition. This finding aligns with Bourdieusian conceptual distinctions of culturally dominant class and economically dominant class values and membership. Upper class status reinforcement and capital reproduction in these divergent ways reflects distinctive national cultures as well as social and economic structures underpinning youth/school sport and educational participation.
L’efficacité de la lutte antidopage s’avère très éloignée de l’image qu’en donnent les médias ou les tenants d’un sport qui se doit d’être propre et exemplaire. Cette image tient du cliché. Elle nie les faits qui se répètent, ignore le retard technologique et scientifique de la lutte antidopage et oublie trop souvent le rôle implicite des dirigeants. Plus grave, peut-être, est l’absence de réelle politique de prévention en matière de dopage. La prévention ne peut se limiter aux mesures coercitives, supposant ainsi que condamner suffirait à prévenir. Reste la question de la santé des sportifs eux-mêmes : force est de constater que si aucune mesure de prévention n’existe, aucune enquête épidémiologique d’envergure n’a été, à l’échelon mondial, mise en œuvre pour tenter de mesurer l’impact du dopage.
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