Habitus and Social Class: A Case Study on Socialisation into Sports and Exercise

Autor/in	Stuij, Mirjam
Titel	Habitus and Social Class: A Case Study on Socialisation into Sports and Exercise
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 20 (2015) 6, S. 780-798Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2013.827568
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Individual Characteristics; Personality Traits; Case Studies; Socialization; Athletics; Exercise; Young Children; Social Class; Family Influence; Physical Education; Physical Education Teachers; Teacher Influence; Peer Influence; Foreign Countries; Socioeconomic Status; Focus Groups; Grade 6; Visual Stimuli; Pictorial Stimuli; Semi Structured Interviews; Freehand Drawing; Content Analysis; School Role; Team Sports; Gender Differences; Ethnic Groups; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Individual characteristics; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Leichtathletik; Übung; Frühe Kindheit; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Ausland; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Fantasieanregung; Drawing; Zeichnen; Inhaltsanalyse; Mannschaftssport; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ethnie; Niederlande
Abstract	According to Bourdieu, habitus is an important, and class-specific, foundation for behaviour. However, he hardly explained how the habitus is acquired. Based on Bernstein's elaboration on the various contexts in which group-specific behavioural principles are acquired, this article demonstrates how young children of two divergent social classes obtain their habitus underlying their sports and exercise behaviour. Although children in both groups acquire a habitus in which sports and exercise play a role, there are striking differences which arise largely out of differences in the impact of socialising agents. Within the higher social class, there is a clearly defined group, namely the nuclear family, which explicitly controls and regulates the children's exercise behaviour. These children learn specific skills at specific places. In the lower social class, the habitus is influenced by the extended family, the physical education teacher and peers, resulting in a broad range of less strictly ordered activities, undertaken at different places. These findings offer a valuable contribution to insight into class-specific socialisation processes, resulting in the acquisition of a specific habitus. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01