Publication details
SYMBOLICKÝ KAPITÁL AKTÉRŮ SPORTOVNÍCH ON-LINE KOMUNIT: STUDIE FOTBALU, PLAVÁNÍ A PARKOURU
| Title in English | SYMBOLIC CAPITAL OF ACTORS OF SPORTING ON-LINE COMMUNITIES: STUDY OF FOOTBALL, SWIMMING AND PARKOUR |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Česká kinantroplogie. |
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| Web | http://www.ceskakinantropologie.cz/index.php/TestJournal/issue/archive |
| Keywords | symbolic capital, sub-culture, football, swimming, parkour |
| Description | The article is based on a sociological perspective of contemporary mass-mediated sport. It analyses and compares three types of sport, distinct in level of organisation, professionalisation, mass-mediation or popularity: football, swimming, and parkour. Using qualitative methods, the paper investigates texts and practices of actors of three sports on internet pages. The analysis is anchored in sociological theory of symbolic and cultural capital of Pierre Bourdieu, as it is further applied in sub-cultural studies by Sarah Thornton, Becky Beal or Belinda Wheaton. The article aims to employ themes identified in analysed documents to give account of establishment of symbolic (sporting) capital of virtual environment's actors in each of the sporting fields. Simultaneously, it pays attention to degree of autonomy of the particular sports, that means the extent of being subject to adjacent influences (e.g. mass-media or economy). |