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An empirical study of Bourdieu’s theory on capital and habitus in the sporting habits of higher education students learning in Central and Eastern Europe

ABSTRACT Social exclusion – in sports as well as in all other areas of life – is linked to low socioeconomic status, poverty, unemployment, and low educational attainment. This means that disadvantaged social groups are permanently trapped in a lifestyle lacking physical exercise. In a broader sense, social exclusion from sports activities affects a much wider social spectrum, including groups that suffer disadvantages based on gender, age, place of residence, or disability [Spaaij, R., Farquharson, K., & Marjoribanks, T. (2015). Sport and social inequalities. Sociology Compass, 9(5), 400–411. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12254]. In Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe, a smaller fraction of society has the opportunity to be active regularly, while the majority are left out. Based on Bourdieu's theory on capital and habitus our paper aims to find out what demographic and socialisation factors, as well as how the socio-economic status and the student habitus play roles in student sport activity in five Central and Eastern European countries. Our analysis is based on the database of the questionnaire survey carried out among students in the examined region (PERSIST 2019, N = 2005). Our results show that although students with a higher social status pursue sport more regularly and are more likely to pursue a sport in clubs, gender, habitus, the parental sporting environment, and sporting friends are the main factors that play a positive role in their regular participation.

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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJacob Collins is associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he teaches courses in modern European history. His first book is The Anthropological Turn: French Political Thought after 1968 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). He is a member of the New Left Review’s editorial board, and his current book project is an intellectual history of autobiography.Inés Escobar González is an anthropologist specializing in social, economic, and political transformation in Mexico and the Americas. She is a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her recent publications include “L’informalité de l’inclusion: Réforme, logement et finances dans les nouvelles périphéries de Mexique, le cas de Guadalajara” (L’Harmattan, 2021). She teaches courses on ethnographic methods, financialization, and the political economy of poverty in Latin America. She is currently writing a book on the afterlives of inclusion in Mexico.Trevor Jackson is assistant professor in the Department of History at George Washington University, where he teaches and researches the history of inequality, capitalism, and financial crisis, mostly but not exclusively in early modern Europe. His first book, Impunity and Capitalism: Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.Jaewoong Jeon is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. His work is centered on the history of capitalism in East Asia and often takes the form of comparative macrohistory.Tad Skotnicki teaches and writes about the politics and culture of capitalism as well as social scientific reason. He is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and published The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture with Stanford University Press in 2021. His current research deals with futurelessness in capitalist societies, on the one hand, and the role of totalities in social scientific explanations, on the other.Matthew Soener is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on social theory and political economy. His research centers on financialization, globalization, and inequality. More recently he has begun focusing on the political economy of climate change and fossil fuels. His work has been published in Socio-Economic Review, Economy and Society, New Political Economy, Sociological Forum, and Sociology Compass. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Historical Studies Volume 9, Number 2Fall 2022 Sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/721839 © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?

The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?

The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide

The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide

Vaccine Hesitancy Narratives

Vaccine Hesitancy Narratives

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Global Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Sociology CompassVolume 14, Issue 2 e12761 CORRIGENDUMFree Access Corrigendum This article corrects the following: Sociology of Debt: States, Credit Markets, and Indebted Citizens Basak Kus, Volume 9Issue 3Sociology Compass pages: 212-223 First Published online: March 5, 2015 First published: 03 February 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12761AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Kus, B. (2015). Sociology of debt: States, credit markets, and indebted citizens. Sociology Compass, 9(3), 212–223. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12247 The author wishes to bring to the readers' attention the following errors in the aforementioned paper. In the “Creditworthiness” section on page 218, two direct quotes from the article by Fourcade and Healy (2013) were not correctly attributed. The correct text should be the following: Fourcade and Healy's (2013) recent work offer a sophisticated analysis of how markets “see” people into different categories in terms of their “creditworthiness”. In earlier times, Fourcade and Healy inform us that assessing the creditworthiness of individuals was the work of bank or retail finance officers who met potential clients in person and evaluated them based on their physical appearance, their demeanor, and even local gossip. Over time, the process became more standardized and more quantitative. By the 1950s, credit reporting companies had already begun to make probabilistic forecasts based on statistical analyses of longitudinal population data. In the 1970s, credit scoring—that is, “the numerical evaluation of a person's reliability and integrity based on his or her individual credit file”—was formally established as an objective way of appraising somebody's creditworthiness (p. 563). Fourcade and Healy note that these developments are believed to have brought a degree of fairness to the credit markets because the new system focused on individual traits rather than group credit histories. Though there is evidence that these new techniques have increased access to the financial system across the board, there are still stratifying effects of differential lending based on classification. Inequities in the market are “less a matter of access to credit and abandonment and more a matter of the differential interest rates that borrowers pay” (Langley, 2009, p. 168). As Fourcade and Healy explain, “scoring has expanded the reach of the market while opening the door to new forms of classification with powerful stratifying effects” (p. 564). The expansion in the supply of subprime credit market—that is, the market that provides credit to people with poor credit histories and little in down payments—reflects this. Citizens who do not qualify for conventional loans can still access credit if they were willing to pay a higher interest rate (Fligstein and Goldstein, 2010). We apologize for the errors. REFERENCE Fourcade, M., & Healy, K. (2013). Classification situations: Life-chances in the neoliberal era. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38(8), 559– 572. Volume14, Issue2February 2020e12761 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Bridging the Mediterranean without papers: Tunisian francophone illiterature’s representation of irregular immigration in the age of globalisation

ABSTRACT My essay illuminates the plights of those who live on the southern shore of the Mediterranean under the antagonistic forces of globalisation, according to which the free movement of capital between Europe and North Africa is matched by a criminalisation of immigrants from the southern bank. My analysis of the discrepancy between the borderless economics and the bordered movement of people explores the representation of clandestine immigration in Fawzi Mellah’s Clandestin en Méditerranée/Clandestine in the Mediterranean (2000), which depicts illicit passages from North Africa to Europe. Criticising European democracies’ containment of the heralded dynamism of the global age and their diffusion of a discourse feeding fear about migrants, I show that globalisation has turned into a ‘globalization of punitiveness’ [Barker, Vanessa. 2012. ‘Global Mobility and Penal Order: Criminalizing Migration, A View from Europe.’ Sociology Compass 6 (2): 113–121]. My exploration of the migrants featured in the text demonstrates that globalisation’s failure to achieve the spatial decentralisation ideal on which it has based its flat-planet premise makes undocumented immigration the last resort of those to whom the Schengen Area closes its borders. My spatial analysis of the paperless migratory enterprise reads the irregular crossing as an attempt to construct defiant identities that resist the global structure of domination.

Business Suit, Briefcase, and Handkerchief: The Material Culture of Retro Masculinity in <em>The Intern</em>

Business Suit, Briefcase, and Handkerchief: The Material Culture of Retro Masculinity in <em>The Intern</em>

Re-imagining Horror in Children's Animated Film

Re-imagining Horror in Children's Animated Film

Women's experiences of physically active leisure during pregnancy

ABSTRACTWhile leisure researchers have long examined the ways in which motherhood can affect women's physically active leisure and, in turn, their health and well-being [e.g. Cramp and Bray 2011; Miller, Yvette D., and Wendy J. Brown. 2005. “Determinants of Active Leisure for Women with Young Children – An ‘Ethic of Care' Prevails.” Leisure Sciences 27 (5): 405–420; Shaw, Susan M. 2008. “Family Leisure and Changing Ideologies of Parenthood.” Sociology Compass 2 (2): 688–703], they have thus far neglected to investigate the physical experience of pregnancy as it relates to women's leisure. This study explored how women's experience of pregnancy and the changing body may play a role in shaping and defining their physically active leisure. Interviews were completed with 12 pregnant women and data were analysed thematically. Findings suggest that women experience an acute loss of control (over their pregnant bodies and over their actions) while simultaneously lacking solid information regarding how to best maintain their health and that of their unborn baby. The findings have important implications for women's health and leisure.

Teaching & Learning Guide for ‘The Conflictual Model of Analysis in Studies on the Media Representation of Islam and Muslims: A Critical Review’

Abstract‘The Conflictual Model of Analysis in Studies on the Media Representation of Islam and Muslims: A Critical Review’ was published in Sociology Compass 9/5 (2015) pp. 321–335, DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12264. This Teaching and Learning Guide is designed to accompany this article. In brief, the article examined the extent to which various studies on the media representation of Islam and Muslims use the conflictual model analysis that underpins theoretical frameworks, such as Orientalism, Clash of Civilisations, Cultural Racism and Islamophobia. It argued that in the context of a complex multicultural society, conflictual model of analysis is inadequate because it simply employs a binary way of thinking as clearly indicated in ‘the West versus Islam’ paradigm. In response to the inadequacy of this model of analysis, the article proposed an adoption of an alternative dialogical model of analysis in the light of the political theory of recognition. This guide provides useful information regarding the use of this article for teaching and learning purposes. It includes recommendation of readings, online resources, sample syllabus, focus questions and project idea.

Fat in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing and Publishing

Fat in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing and Publishing

Mindy Calling: Size, Beauty, Race in The Mindy Project

Mindy Calling: Size, Beauty, Race in The Mindy Project

Articulating the "Counter" in Subculture Studies

Articulating the "Counter" in Subculture Studies

Teaching and Learning Guide for Black Greek‐Letter Organizations

Sociology CompassVolume 8, Issue 5 p. 571-587 Teaching & Learning Guide Teaching and Learning Guide for Black Greek-Letter Organizations Devon R. Goss, Devon R. Goss Department of Sociology, University of ConnecticutSearch for more papers by this authorDenishia Harris, Denishia Harris Department of Sociology, University of ConnecticutSearch for more papers by this authorDeronta Spencer, Deronta Spencer Department of Sociology, University of ConnecticutSearch for more papers by this authorMatthew W. Hughey, Corresponding Author Matthew W. Hughey Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut Correspondence address: Matthew W. Hughey, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. E-mail: matthew.hughey@uconn.eduSearch for more papers by this author Devon R. Goss, Devon R. Goss Department of Sociology, University of ConnecticutSearch for more papers by this authorDenishia Harris, Denishia Harris Department of Sociology, University of ConnecticutSearch for more papers by this authorDeronta Spencer, Deronta Spencer Department of Sociology, University of ConnecticutSearch for more papers by this authorMatthew W. Hughey, Corresponding Author Matthew W. Hughey Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut Correspondence address: Matthew W. Hughey, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. E-mail: matthew.hughey@uconn.eduSearch for more papers by this author First published: 20 April 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12159 This guide accompanies the following article: Parks, Gregory S., Matthew W. Hughey, and Rodney T. Cohen. ‘The Great Divide: Black Fraternal Ideals and Reality.’ Sociology Compass. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume8, Issue5May 2014Pages 571-587 RelatedInformation

The History of Affirmative Action in the USA: A Teaching and Learning Guide

AbstractThis Teaching and Learning Guide is designed to accompany my Sociology Compass article on affirmative action. The sample syllabus is organized historically beginning with FDR's New Deal and the first use of the term affirmative action and ending with the most recent Supreme Court's deliberations on this policy. In doing so, it attends not only to the varied meanings and forms of affirmative action across time but also the different interest groups arguing for and against this remedial policy. Along the way, it explores the changing history of race relations in the USA, considers the value of personal narratives as sources in exploring meaning and personhood, examines the ways the news media has framed the debate in contemporary America, and finally, speculates about the future of this controversial policy.

Teaching and Learning Guide for: ‘Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation and the Policing of Protest Since the 11 September 2011 Terrorist attacks’

Teaching and Learning Guide for: ‘Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation and the Policing of Protest Since the 11 September 2011 Terrorist attacks’