"The Body is Made to Move": Gym and Fitness Culture in Sweden

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Hedblom, Christina,1980-Stockholms universitet,Socialantropologiska institutionen (författare)

"The Body is Made to Move" : Gym and Fitness Culture in Sweden

BokEngelska2009

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Stockholm :Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis,2009
203 s.
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:su-27841
ISBN:9789186071202
https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-27841URI

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Stockholm studies in social anthropology,0347-0830 ;N.S., 1

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Ideas about "exercise" and "health" have varied over time and across cultures. With the recent Euro-American fitness trend, a growing number of Swedes now take part in some kind of physical activity at Gyms or Fitness Centers. By applying a phenomenological and constructivist approach, the aim of this ethnographic study is to examine the non-profit but also commercial culture of and around this form of exercise. The focus is on how meaning is created, transformed, embodied, and perceived by gym goers as truth, science, knowledge, or even myth. There are two central overlapping concerns in this thesis, both dealing with the interrelation between categories, and status positions. The first part of the thesis deals with the social aspects of movement, such as the definition and categorization of self and others as different types of gym-goers. Related to this are also what is termed critical norms of interpretation of aims and reasons for exercise, such as gaining strength or aesthetic improvement. The other central concern is more specifically focused on the body itself and deals with ideas about exercise, diet, substances, and physiology, that is, how to exercise and how the body works. "The body is made to move", was a common saying at Gyms and Centers, meaning that the human body is physically built to be active. But the techniques and practices of how this movement is performed vary and are sometimes even contradictory. Here sources in the distribution of ideas about the body and body movement are brought out: the Internet, informal and formal instructors in the Gym, as well as gym machines. The method has been participant observation and in-depth interviews with gym goers and instructors at Gyms and Fitness Centers in two middle size towns in Sweden mainly during a year in 2004-2005. Rather than taking sides in the debate on how to exercise, this thesis raises wider questions about the authority to define reality.

Ämnesord och genrebeteckningar

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Sociologi Socialantropologi hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology Social Anthropology hsv//eng
Gym
exercise
diet
the body
interpretations
science
Social anthropology
Socialantropologi
socialantropologi
Social Anthropology

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Wulff, Helena,ProfessorStockholms universitet,Socialantropologiska institutionen(Swepub:su)hwulff (preses)
Mellström, Ulf,ProfessorLuleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap (opponent)
Stockholms universitetSocialantropologiska institutionen (creator_code:org_t)

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