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A Sporting Habitus Sport, Class and Gender
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Introduction to Bourdieu’s concepts
habitus, distinction andcultural, social capital and
physical capital
Wimbledon: consuming history, gender and social class
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Traditional debates in the
sociology of sport
Structure Vs Agency
Society Vs Individual
Determinism vs Freewill
Who controls our sport
and leisure choices?
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Pierre BourdieuHabitusCultual CapitalSocial CapitalPhysical CapitalDistinction
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Is sneezing natural or learnt?
We learn how to act
But actions are remembered as a habitual response
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“A feel for the game”
Practical mastery of the logic of the game based on experience and which works outside conscious control
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HabitusTaken-for-granted preferencesTastesTaste makes a virtue out of
necessityWhat is your favourite comfort
food?
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Habitus is embodied
knowledge or competence
importantly informed by social class
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Social world Social World
structures
individual
individual
“When a habitus encounters a social world of which it is a product, it is like a ‘fish in water’”
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Liverpool footballers when are they fish in/out of water?
• Being Liverpool FC clip
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TasteTastes are learnt not innate
Your tastes make up your habitus
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Distinction
Tastes are distastes of others
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Choices of sport are interrelated to all other possible sports
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Cultural Capital
Symbolic weatlth
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In what ways does sport provide capital?
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Social capitalBourdieu and social capital
• In what ways does sport relate to social capital?– Can we see it as an expression of social capital?
• Can you spot social capital in sporting groups?– Can it provide social capital?
• How can sport be valuable as social capital?– How do members of (sporting) social groups protect
their social capital? • How do members stop outsiders from joining their
groups?
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Physical Capital see “The Body and Social Theory” Chris Shilling
Bodies
have valu
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The body and social difference
Working class bodyA means to an endExcitementMachine-like
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Dominant classesHealthAppearanceSelf-
presentationDeportment is
restrainedmeasured
self-assured
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Differences within the dominant classes
Upwardly mobileinsecure
Intellectual middle classesSeek out highly distinct activities
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Body is central in determining the distributions of physical
activities
Economic barriers not sufficient in explaining class-
based patterns in sport
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The Wimbledon brandThe meanings of Wimbledon have been
reconfigured during its existence19th Century legacy of class and gender relations:
surburban lawns; courtship rituals; ladies and gentlemen
Now deliberately commodified and broadcast to a global audience
Think about the shifting meanings of spaces like Wimbledon as a result of globalisation and commercialisation ... How was the space presented to us?
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Englishness and the Wimbledon Brand
Dating back to 1877, "The Championships" has become a global brand that made almost $50 million in aftertax profit last year. Televised coverage of the two-week event now reaches 562 million homes in 178 countries, and 445,000 spectators, paying anywhere from $10 to $180 per ticket (at official prices), will pass through the gates before the tournament culminates with the men's final…
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• All this has made the championship a golden goose for the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which hosts the event. Big-name companies, such as Rolex, IBM (IBM), and HSBC (HBC) have signed up to get a piece of the action. Organizers even tapped Polo Ralph Lauren (RL) to design the uniforms for Wimbledon staff.
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Shifting meanings of Wimbledon
Compare the beginning of the 2005 Ladies semi-finals as broadcast on the BBC (UK) and NBC (USA)
• How is the social history of tennis made part of the contemporary consumer experience of Wimbledon?
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Exclusively for Everyone?Think about the ways that hierarchies of bodies and access are built into the brand of Wimbledon …
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Name something about you that gives an insight into your habitus
• Start your sentence with “I feel like a ‘fish in water’ when ….”
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Understand the contribution of Bourdieu for understanding sport
habitus, distinction, cultural, social and
physical capital
Wimbledon and social class