Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

Jarvie, Grant; Maguire, Joseph

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“…In explaining this, Bourdieu argued that the body is a site of social memory involving the individual culturally learning and evoking dispositions to act (Jarvie & Maguire, 1994). Durable and transposable dispositions to act are characterized by Bourdieu as habitus (Brubaker, 1995;Wacquant, 1998), which are defined as a series of internalized schemes through which people perceive, produce, and evaluate their practices (Ritzer, 1996).…”

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Coach Education and Continuing Professional Development: Experience and Learning to Coach

Cushion¹,

Armour

Jones

2003

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Research over the last decade has demonstrated that it is experience and the observation of other coaches that remain the primary sources of knowledge for coaches. Despite this, coach education and continuing professional development fail to draw effectively on this experience. Using the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper attempts to understand how the "art of coaching" can be characterized as structured improvisation and how experience is crucial to structuring coaching practice. An examination of current coach education and assessment demonstrates that coaching practice viewed as a composite of knowledge has not specifically addressed the pervasive influence of experience on coaching practice. Drawing on experiences from the educational field, we examine how coach education and continuing professional development can utilize mentoring and critical reflection to situate learning in the practical experience of coaching.Until recently, although the importance of coaching to athlete development and national sporting success was increasingly being realized (Sports Coach UK, 2002), there was little agreement as to a future strategic direction for the burgeoning profession. A recent commissioned report ("The development of coaching in the United Kingdom," 1999) brought this situation into stark relief and, subsequently, initiated a process whereby the government-funded Sports Strategy Coaching Task Force recommended the development of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for coaches working within the high performance environment. The QUEST, 2003, 55, 215-230

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Section: Understanding Experience: What Does Bourdieu Bring To Coaching?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Coach Education and Continuing Professional Development: Experience and Learning to Coach

Cushion¹,

Armour

Jones

2003

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515

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“…The 'hinge' therefore represents the point at which social processes and individual dispositions meet and blend to create the habitus (Elias and Dunning 1986), as social processes that regulate bodies meet at the juncture between conscious and unconscious behaviour to develop a habitus. This habitus influences but does not determine behaviour by contouring what is considered socially acceptable, and what remains above the 'threshold of repugnance' (Jarvie and Maguire, 1994). Moreover, maintenance of health through activities such as exercise and physical activity places the regulation of the body at the centre of participants' experiences (Shilling, 2003, Maguire andMansfield, 1998).…”

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“…The figurational approach, which largely coheres around the work of Norbert Elias, is highly relevant to the study of social networks because the nexus between individual and society is a key focus (Jarvie & Maguire, 1994). Elias argued that divisions between agents and structures, or object and subject, represent false dichotomies in sociological thought (Elias and Schröter, 1991).…”

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“…These webs, or 'figurations,' constitute an unplanned social order constituted of interdependent individual 'I' identities. The nature of this society of individuals, in which all are connected through interdependency chains, means that the short-term actions of individuals create long-term unintended consequences because they intertwine with the actions of all within the figuration (Jarvie andMaguire, 1994, Elias andSchröter, 1991). Consequently, 'society' can appear to have its own game sense that is beyond the control of any individual or group, and yet is constituted and shaped by the actions of all.…”

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Personal goals, group performance and ‘social’ networks: participants’ negotiation of virtual and embodied relationships in the ‘Workplace Challenge’ physical activity programme

Evans

Carter

Middleton

et al. 2016

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) epitomise the growing reliance upon building networks and partnerships sports delivery. This study investigated how social networks were created and contested in a CSP-led programme entitled the 'Workplace Challenge' (WPC). The WPC used a web-platform to encourage workplace-based teams to engage in physical activity by self-recording their activity over an eight-week period. Points were awarded for activity completed and a peer-challenge facility was promoted via online league tables, prizes and the opportunity to 'challenge' other users. Semistructured interviews were conducted with a total of seventeen participants recruited from one public and one private sector workplace and from a sample of participants registered as individuals. Two programme planners employed by the CSP also took part. A figurational framework was utilised to investigate participants' negotiation of networks of embodied and virtual relationships within the programme. Findings suggest the messages promoted in the WPC were disseminated and transformed according to the organizational structure of these networks. Embodied social relationships within workplaces reinforced peer support in professional I-we identities, whereas virtual networks sometimes highlighted participants' isolation. Moreover, emphasis upon competition within and between teams caused some to question their performance. Often, competition motivated engagement. For less active participants, constant comparison could prove discouraging, particularly if participants felt they had let their colleagues down. Planners of similar programmes must be cognizant of the uneven manner of programme dissemination. Contextual differences at the point of delivery including existing organizational structures and power hierarchies have an impact upon participants' perceptions of a programme.

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“…This is, of course, not the first such attempt (see for example, Dunning, 1986;Murphy et al, 2000;Liston, 2011) for if there is one thing over which both critics of and collaborators with Elias agree, it is that he should be recognized as "highly unusual among leading sociologists" in seeing sport and leisure as important social phenomena (Giulianotti, 2004: 145. See also Jarvie and Maguire, 1994). Indeed it has been claimed that Elias not only saw sport and leisure as "constituting a problem area which merits investigation in its own right" but also as a "'natural laboratory' for shedding light on key aspects of human existence" (Dunning, 2002: 215).…”

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The Quest for Exciting Knowledge: Developments in Figurational Sociological Research on Sport and Leisure.

Malcolm

Mansfield

2013

Política Soc.

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This paper provides a thematic and developmental review of figurational sociological research on sport and leisure. It demonstrates how Elias's main theoretical principles have been incorporated in this work and it uses ideas from Norbert Elias's sociology of knowledge to explain how the emphasis on these principles has changed over time. Specifically, the paper identifies three overlapping stages in the construction of this body of knowledge and argues that a focus on violence has gradually diminished. The paper argues that this trend is both a consequence of the increasing availability of a broader range of Elias's texts, but also due to social relations in the field, as latter generations of researchers find emotional gratification in expanding into new research agendas. The paper concludes by demonstrating the potential applicability of Elias's theoretical principles to some of the most significant social issues of the twenty first century.

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Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

Cited by 162 publications

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Coach Education and Continuing Professional Development: Experience and Learning to Coach

Coach Education and Continuing Professional Development: Experience and Learning to Coach

Personal goals, group performance and ‘social’ networks: participants’ negotiation of virtual and embodied relationships in the ‘Workplace Challenge’ physical activity programme

The Quest for Exciting Knowledge: Developments in Figurational Sociological Research on Sport and Leisure.

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