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- Andreasson, Jesper, 1977-, et al.
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Vetenskapsteori : Grunder och tillämpning
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Förlagetss information:Vetenskapsteori kan ibland uppfattas som abstrakt och komplicerat. Samtidigt utgör den vetenskapsteoretiska reflektionen en grundförutsättning för akademiskt arbete. Vetenskapsteoretiska frågor aktualiseras i varje forskningsprocess, oavsett om skribenten är medveten om det eller inte. Denna bok handlar inte bara om vetenskapsteori i sig och om olika sätt att se på kunskap, utan den är snarare tänkt som ett redskap för att läsaren ska kunna omsätta en vetenskapsteoretisk reflektion i arbetet med att genomföra en studie. Ambitionen är att erbjuda konkreta exempel på diskussioner som kan uppkomma i till exempel handledningssituationer, och med hjälp av dessa visa hur det är möjligt att förstå relationen mellan vetenskapsteori och det vetenskapliga skrivandet.Boken kan erbjuda ett stöd för såväl studenter och doktorander som för handledare. Den riktar sig främst till det samhällsvetenskapliga fältet i stort och fungerar utmärkt som en introduktion till vetenskapligt tänkande och skrivande på till exempel lärarutbildningar, socionomprogrammet, psykologutbildningen samt kurser i sociologi, socialpsykologi, kulturstudier och andra samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen.
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- Andreasson, Jesper, 1977-, et al.
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Female Fitness in the Blogosphere : Gender, Health, and the Body
- 2013
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Ingår i: SAGE Open. - : SAGE Publications. - 2158-2440. ; 3:July-September, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes self-portrayals and gender constructions among female personal trainers within an Internet-mediated framework of fitness culture. The empirical material comes from a close examination of three strategically selected blogs. The result shows that some of the blogs clearly build upon what Connell calls emphasized femininity, as a means of legitimizing and constructing appropriate female fitness. In addition, there are also tendencies of sexualization in text and imagery present. As such, these self-representations are framed within a cultural history of body fitness dominated by stereotypical ways of perceiving masculinity and femininity. However, this does not capture the entire presentation of the self among the analyzed fitness bloggers. The blogs also point in the direction of ongoing negotiations and subversions of traditional gender norms. Among other things, they show how irony and humor are used as a means of questioning normative gender constructions while empowering female fitness and bodyliness.
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- Andreasson, Jesper, 1977-, et al.
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It All Starts Now! : Gay Men and Fatherhood in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of GLBT Family Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1550-428X .- 1550-4298. ; 13:5, s. 478-497
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how Swedish gay men pursue and understand fatherhood, using a qualitative, semi-structured methodological approach. We are interested in how practical issues and different fatherhood arrangements are understood and handled by the fathers; how the construction of “rainbow families” is understood in relation to legal issues; parental responsibilities; and thoughts regarding gender-equal and gender-neutral relationships within Swedish society and culture. The results show that the trajectory of gay men toward fatherhood is shaped by a variety of mediating factors such as interactions with agencies, clinics, attorneys, and the state. There are some significant legal, social, financial, and cultural obstacles to realizing gay parenthood. There are also cases where study participants talked about a sense of intolerance expressed toward gay parents within a gay community. Although there are still strong normative dimensions involved in the construction of modern parenthood, the grip of heteronormative views on family life and sexuality is changing; the narratives presented also represent a questioning of the hegemonic image of fatherhood in Sweden. Consequently, it is possible to discern different attempts at transgressing and changing the cultural landscape of fatherhood and the ways people build families today.
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- Andreasson, Jesper, 1977-, et al.
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Welcome to “Planet Porno” : Masculinity, Sexuality, and Fitness Doping
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities. - : Berghahn Books. - 2688-8157 .- 2688-8149. ; 2:1, s. 9-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to explore the connections between bodybuilding, (hyper)masculinity, sexuality, and the construction of subcultural and sexual spaces among Swedish male fitness dopers. Analytically, the article employs the perspectives of hardcore masculinities—and the potential harms to relationships and health involved in the use of doping—as well as more legitimate and hegemonic masculinity configurations. The results show that there is a delicate balance between masculinity-connoted sexual and other bodily urges and desires, on the one hand, and the loss of control, on the other. Living in a pornographic imaginary can also result in a loss of reasonable contact with the world outside the subculture of bodybuilding. Upholding this lifestyle thus involves an ambivalent construction of masculinity found at the intersection between marginality and hegemony, which sometimes leads to loneliness and a lack of intimate relationships.
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- Johansson, Thomas, 1959-
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Familjeliv
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Andreasson, Jesper, 1977-, et al.
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‘Doing for group exercise what McDonald's did for hamburgers’ : Les Mills, and the fitness professional as global traveller
- 2016
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; 21:2, s. 148-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses fitness professionals’ perceptions and understanding of their occupational education and pedagogical pursuance, framed within the emergence of a global fitness industry. The empirical material consists of interviews with personal trainers and group fitness instructors, as well as observations in their working environment. In addition, printed material from different occupational organisations and educational companies has been included. The narratives of the fitness professionals and a case study of Les Mills are presented and analysed through the concept of the McDonaldisation of society, or more specifically of fitness culture. The results show that, even though gym and fitness franchises differ from hamburger restaurant chains, there are crucial similarities, but also differences. One can, for example, discern a tendency towards the construction of predesigned and highly monitored programmes, such as the one developed by Les Mills. Homogenisation is also apparent when looking at the body ideals produced, as fitness professionals work on their own or clients’ bodies, which makes it possible to anticipate a global body ideal. The social and cultural patterns of self-regulation and self-government found in gym and fitness culture can be understood and analysed in a global context. What we find is an intriguing and complex mixture of regulation, control and standardisation, on the one hand, and a struggle to express the body, to be ‘free’ and to transgress the boundaries set by the commercial global fitness industry, on the other.
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- Johansson, Thomas, 1959, et al.
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The Web of Loneliness : A Netnographic Study of Narratives of Being Alone in an Online Context
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Ingår i: Social Sciences. - Basel, Switzerland : MDPI. - 2076-0760 .- 1392-0758. ; 6:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using a netnographic and case-study-based approach, this article uses different blogs as data in order to analyse how loneliness is conceptualized and understood. More precisely, the study aims to investigate experiences of loneliness and related themes in the context of online communication. In approaching the nature of loneliness, we have analytically leaned on the theories and some of the most basic assumptions of symbolic interactionism, according to which, social encounters and situations, their qualities and their existence, have a profound impact on emotional life. This study can be read as an archaeology of online loneliness and the findings suggest that the experiences of online loneliness can be categorized in different genres, such as the poetics of loneliness, the diagnostics and self-harm of loneliness, and loneliness and family life. Although loneliness is approached and discussed differently, the bloggers’ estranged relationships to society tie these identified genres of loneliness together. The different genres derive their character, form and social dynamics from the narrators’ struggle and urge to somehow find a way to fit into contemporary society and achieve satisfying social relationships. Furthermore, displaying and presenting the self, and thus becoming the object of other people’s attention and interest, in the context of online communication, can be a profound way of reconnecting to society and hopefully avoiding isolation and marginalization.
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- Johansson, Thomas, 1959, et al.
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From Subcultures to Common Culture: Bodybuilders, Skinheads, and the Normalization of the Marginal
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sage Open. - : SAGE Publications. - 2158-2440. ; 7:2, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using bodybuilders and skinheads/neo-Nazis as two rather diverse examples of subcultures, the present study theoretically explores our understanding of subculture and common culture. The study aims to explore how the concept of subculture can be used analytically in relation to processes of normalization and marginalization. The focus is on the historical, symbolic, and biographical relation between the subculture, the subcultural response, and sociopolitical transformations in society and culture. We are interested in understanding the processes through which, for example, bodybuilding has moved back and forth, over time, between a subcultural position and a more common fitness culture. In parallel to this, we are also interested in how subcultures centered on skinheads, neo-Nazis, and right-wing extremists influence and are connected to more general political transformations and opinions in contemporary society, blurring the distinction between subculture and common culture. The results indicate a complex relation between subcultures and the mainstreaming of certain values, opinions, and practices.
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