Conversion to bodybuilding

Coquet, Ronan; Ohl, Fabien; Roussel, Peggy

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“…La deuxième caractéristique de ces bodybuilders brésiliens est que leurs pratiques de dopage sont plus facilement rendues publiques que dans d'autres cas (COQUET et al, 2014), ce qui laisse à penser que la prise de produits est plus normalisée dans cette région du Brésil que dans d'autres pays.…”

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A Construção Do Corpo Pelo Culturismo No Brasil

2019

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O objetivo deste artigo é entender a construção do corpo pelo fisiculturismo. É um estudo de campo que permitiu entrevistar fisiculturistas do Nordeste do Brasil. Entrevistas semi-estruturadas foram realizadas com uma amostra de oito homens e duas mulheres. Realizamos uma análise do conteúdo das entrevistas. Os resultados permitiram identificar usos diferenciados do bodybuilding de acordo com as experiências passadas do corpo, os modos de comprometimento e sexo. Se o sofrimento proposto para explicar seu comprometimento com a prática é individual, a adesão às novas regras de construção do corpo é feita por um grupo de pessoas que levam a normalizar o consumo de substâncias farmacológicas.

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A Construção Do Corpo Pelo Culturismo No Brasil

2019

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“…This experience of relegation, which happened in different contexts (training, championships, moments shared with his friends), led him to an awareness of all the sacrifices he had made in order to follow his vocation. Among other things, he realized that some of the difficulties he encountered were partly due to the strong level of symbolic imprisonment which goes hand in hand with his sporting accomplishments (concerning the effects of conversion on conjugal trajectories, see Coquet et al, 2016: 827).…”

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“…Thus, throughout different phases of talent identification, selection and confirmation orchestrated by sports institutions, athletes are invited to work on themselves and transform themselves both physically and symbolically (Papin, 2007). In fact, the construction of a performing body involves a conversion process (Coquet et al, 2016; Wacquant, 1992) thanks to which athletes gradually focus on the quest for maximal efficiency – ultimately building a self-image solely based on their sport and considering that this life project was freely built. This conversion is essential for supporting the heavy price of a practice which becomes more and more intense, restrictive, exclusive and stressful (Burlot et al, 2018; Roderick, 2006; Theberge, 2008; Wacquant, 1995b).…”

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Sport as a vocation: The effects of injury on the socialization processes involved in the production of sporting elites

Forté

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This article deals with the construction of the sporting expertise of high-level athletes by focusing on the socialization processes which take place while athletes are injured. The analysis uses results from qualitative research based on interviews and ethnographic surveys in several training centers exclusive to French top-elite athletes. Various socialization contexts (both in sport and outside of sport) were observed in order to understand how injuries can affect the symbolic marking and the symbolic imprisonment processes which go together with the development and the maintenance of high-level vocations. The results show that the effects of injuries are equivocal: when the conditions of symbolic imprisonment remain strong during the time of care and rehabilitation, and when the close circle keeps on nurturing the marks of election, the chances of maintaining sports vocations are high. In contrast, when injuries strongly weaken the signs of election and when the socialization contexts are more heterogeneous, sporting vocations are likely to decline significantly.

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“…Furthermore, learning to be vegan requires practice; just as converts to Islam learn how to recite daily prayers (Galonnier and De Los Rios ), converts to veganism learn how to respond to negative comments or how to frame veganism as political rather than dietary (Christopher, Bartkowski, and Haverda ; Fox and Ward ). Similarly, in a study on body building, Coquet et al () contend that people transform themselves into body builders by changing their lifestyle practices and by reorganizing their daily lives around their workouts; they must learn how to eat differently, how to prepare for meets, and how to work out to maximize their gains while forming new worldviews to understand themselves and their bodies differently than “ordinary” gym users. Thus, our definition of conversion includes socialization into any new set of beliefs and practices (religious or nonreligious) that is evidenced by changing and reorganizing daily behaviors and routines around this new identity.…”

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“…However, this narrow focus suggests that scholars have yet to fully explore how transformative and impactful experiences can reshape secular worldviews and daily practices. Similar conversion language is used for other transformative events, including coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (Bryant and Lamb ) or becoming a committed body builder (Coquet, Ohl, and Roussel ). Thus, our first contribution comes via our extension of conversion to secular transformations: instances where students adapt new practices and beliefs in their secular identities that parallel changes experienced by religious converts.…”

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“I Was There for the Free Food”: Accidental Conversions in College

Gillis

Krull

2019

Sociological Forum

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How and why do some college students have conversion experiences, while others do not? To answer this question, we inductively analyzed in-depth interviews with 30 students at a residential college in the southeast who had varying conversion experiences: some never began a conversion (n = 16), some started toward conversion but ultimately did not convert (n = 4), and some completed a religious (n = 5) or nonreligious conversion (n = 5). We conceptualize conversion as socialization into new beliefs and practices, as evidenced by reorganizing daily behaviors. We extend conversion to experiences not generally understood as such. We find religious and nonreligious conversions follow the same process during college, facilitated by student organizations, demonstrating that religious conversions are not a unique transformation. Furthermore, we find that organizational context matters in conversion processes: the structural context of college allows some students, who share biographical ability, a desire to make new friends, and openness to new groups, to unintentionally join student organizations that seek to change their daily practices and worldviews. However, many students face constrained choices or structural barriers that prevent the conversion from being completed. Our research has important implications for conceptualizing conversion and for understanding the role of organizational context in conversions.

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Conversion to bodybuilding

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

A Construção Do Corpo Pelo Culturismo No Brasil

A Construção Do Corpo Pelo Culturismo No Brasil

Sport as a vocation: The effects of injury on the socialization processes involved in the production of sporting elites

“I Was There for the Free Food”: Accidental Conversions in College

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