Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men

This article offers a nuanced exploration of Football Fitness (FF), a newer ‘sport for all' concept carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The aim of the study was to examine FF as a meaningful leisure activity for men. Seven focus group interviews were conducted with 26 heterogeneous male FF players aged 24 to 76. Data were analysed by means of thematic network analysis within the interpretive tradition. Drawing on figurational sociology, more specifically Elias and Dunning’s perspective on leisure sport as a quest for excitement, and Connell’s theory of masculinities, we present three elements of the empirical material all highlighting the social significance of the FF concept. 1: The men’s fight for recognition in the club, 2: Competition as a play element and 3: Social bonding and sport as a male preserve. The findings of the study demonstrate a hegemony of multiple masculinities in football clubs. The play-pleasure values associated with the FF concept does not receive much recognition compared to traditional competitive football. Consequently, the FF players feel like the strange newcomers, experiencing being regarded as outsiders compared to the established players in the clubs. Our study indicates that organisational change do not automatically generate cultural change when implementing health-promotion initiatives such as FF.

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Sociology of religion and the occult revival

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis ◽

10.30674/scripta.67092 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 202-214

Author(s):

Lennart Ejerfeldt

Keyword(s):

Social Structure ◽

Cultural Change ◽

Sociology Of Religion ◽

Western World ◽

Social Significance ◽

New Religions ◽

The Social ◽

Counter Culture ◽

The Sixties ◽

Social Diffusion

The "new" that makes the cults of the occult revival to "new religions" of the Western world, is their recently increased social significance. Historically most of modern occultism is anything but new. From the research and theorizing about the occult revival we have picked up some main themes. The first is the social diffusion of the new occultism. In this field, we find some studies of superstition, especially astrology. These illuminate the differences in social connotation between the consumers of superstition and the followers of institutional religion. Secondly the study of the occult revival has made valuable contributions to the conceptualizing of "cult" and the cultic phenomenon. Thirdly, we will look upon the connection between the occult revival and the counter-culture. The problem of the rise of cults as a symptom of socio-cultural change will be briefly discussed with reference to Bell's thesis of "the disjuntion of culture and social structure". Lastly, we proffer some reflections on the occult revival and the new spiritual trends in the churches, which so sharply contrast with the theology and churchmanship of the sixties.

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Who and how can control? Autonomy of Internet use among the member of generation Z in Hungary

Homo et Societas ◽

10.4467/25436104hs.18.008.12309 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 96-109

Author(s):

Anita Galán

Keyword(s):

Internet Use ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Focus Group Interviews ◽

Digital Inequality ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽

Generation Z ◽

The Social ◽

New Type ◽

Group Interviews

Due to the social and economic changes in the past few decades a new type of inequality, digital inequality has evolved. This study based on the theory of second-level digital inequalities. I examine the autonomy of use dimension. I use a sample of the members of generation Z who live in Debrecen, Hungary. The aim of this study is to reveal who controls the Internet use of generation Z members and how this control is achieved by the means of qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on the focus group interviews, there have been discovered three kinds of control: parental, sibling and internal.

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Bringing Political Upheaval and Cultural Trauma into Order: A Document-Theoretical Approach to the Social Significance of Bibliographic Classification Systems

Proceedings from the Document Academy ◽

10.35492/docam/8/2/5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Joacim Hansson

Keyword(s):

Cultural Change ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Public Libraries ◽

Social Issues ◽

Classification Systems ◽

Social Significance ◽

Political Upheaval ◽

The Social ◽

Social Acts ◽

Immediate Function

This paper explores the ability to define bibliographic classification systems as socially significant documents in a way that goes beyond their immediate function in the information retrieval process. It does so in dialog with theory on documents and documentality, and knowledge organization theory. Two examples show how development of new classification systems address social and cultural structures in periods of rapid social and cultural change and crisis. The first example discusses the design of a classification system for Swedish public libraries in the late 1910s, and the second addresses the re-formulation of the Holocaust experience in American Jewish library classification practice in the 1950s and 1960s. Results indicate that social significance to classification systems influence the definition their institutional context in relation to wider social issues and movements. The character of this influence suggests research on documentality needs to address the relation between form and content in documents defined as reifications of social acts.

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V.V. Rozanov Among Parties and Politicians

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2019-0-4-165-170 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 60 ◽

pp. 165-170

Author(s):

Aleksey V. Lomonosov

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Editorial Office ◽

Social Significance ◽

Political Ideas ◽

Political Journalism ◽

Political Views ◽

The Social ◽

The Press ◽

Journal Editorial ◽

Political Essays

The article reveals the social significance of determining the political views of V.V. Rozanov in the system of the thinker’s worldview. The correlation of these views with his political journalism is shown. The genesis of social and political ideas of V.V. Rozanov is revealed. The author specifies his ideological predecessors in the sphere of public thought of the late 19th century and the thinker’s affiliation with the conservative political camp of Russian writers. The author of the article also gives coverage of the V.V. Rozanov’s polemical publications in the press. He outlines the circle of political sympathies and determinative constants in the political views of Rozanov-publicist and proves his commitment to the centrist political parties. The author examines the process of Rozanov’s socio-political views evolution at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, and the related changes in his political journalism. The evaluations are based on the large layer of Rozanov’s newspaper publicism in the years of 1905–1917. To determine the Rozanov’s position in the “New time” journal editorial office and to reveal the motives of his political essays the author of the article used epistola

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LEGAL ESSENCE OF ANCIENT PROVERBS AND SAYS AND THEIR SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE

Current problems of jurisprudence ◽

10.29039/02032-6/075-081 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Angela Dranishnikova ◽

Ivan Semenov

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Social Significance ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

The Public ◽

Moral Standards ◽

The Social ◽

The Law ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Status Position

The national legal system is determined by traditional elements characterizing the culture and customs that exist in the social environment in the form of moral standards and the law. However, the attitude of the population to the letter of the law, as a rule, initially contains negative properties in order to preserve personal freedom, status, position. Therefore, to solve pressing problems of rooting in the minds of society of the elementary foundations of the initial order, and then the rule of law in the public sphere, proverbs and sayings were developed that in essence contained legal educational criteria.

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