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KPE 100

Physical Cultural Studies

Week 3 September 28, 2022

Agenda

• Introduction to ‘Article Review’ assignment
• Guest
• Writing Centre
• Reading – Safai (Chapter 10)
• Activity
• Break
• Research – Dallaire et al (2012)
• ‘Key Concept of the Week’
• Next week

Article Review - 1

• Value – 15%
• Due November 2, 2022

Article Review - 2 Select one refereed article published in 2017 or later in one of the following 15 academic journals:

• Body and Society
• International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
• International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
• International Review for the Sociology of Sport
• Journal of Sport for Development
• Journal of Sport Management
  • Journal of Sport and Social Issues
  • Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
  • Qualitative Health Research
  • Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
  • Quest
  • Sociology of Sport Journal
  • Sport in Society
  • Sport, Education and Society
  • Sport Management Review

Article Review - 4

• Provide the full reference of the article you are reviewing
• Provide some links or references to your ‘current event’

within your paper

Guest

WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE?

Writing Centre

Reading – Chapter 10

Parissa Safai – Sport and Health

Contradictions… The social world is marked by contradictions (ideas that are opposed to one another)… …social scientists often study contradictions in order to:

• expose/illuminate them,
• help people navigate them,
• encourage critical thinking, or even resistance, to contradictions.

Chapter 10, in three sections Section 1 – The Body as Machine Section 2 – Sport as a Panacea Section 3 – Performance over Health Overview provided on page 211 (Look for these!)

Section 1 – The Body as Machine (p.211-214) It is (often) normal to think of the body as a machine, that can:

• Perform tasks
• Be optimized or repaired
• Endure pain and injury
• Potential problems with this include:
• Reducing people to their biology, function or achievements
• Normalizing pain, at the expense of health
• Normalizing risk (see Section 3)

Section 2 – Sport as a Panacea (215-218) = the common-sense belief that (more) sport participation leads to improved health.

• Limits to this idea:
  • Not everyone likes sport
  • Sport is just one part of physical activity/culture
  • Not all health problems are individual or performance related [think Obesity – Week 2] Healthism says that everyone is responsible for their own health (p. 217)

Section 3 – Culture of Risk (219-224) Elite/competitive sport culture often encourages people to risk their health in unhealthy ways!

• Examples:
  • Pain
  • Injury
  • Violence
  • Depression