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A Sporting Habitus

A Sporting Habitus. Sport, Class and Gender. Introduction to Bourdieu’s concepts habitus , distinction and cultural, social capital and physical capital Wimbledon : consuming history, gender and social class. 1 2 3. Traditional debates in the sociology of sport.

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A Sporting Habitus

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  1. A Sporting Habitus Sport, Class and Gender

  2. Introduction to Bourdieu’s concepts habitus, distinction and cultural, social capital and physical capital Wimbledon: consuming history, gender and social class 1 2 3

  3. Traditional debates in the sociology of sport • Structure Vs Agency • Society Vs Individual • Determinism vs Freewill Who controls our sport and leisure choices?

  4. Pierre Bourdieu Habitus Cultual Capital Social Capital Physical Capital Distinction

  5. Is sneezing natural or learnt? We learn how to act But actions are remembered as a habitual response

  6. “A feel for the game” Practical mastery of the logic of the game based on experience and which works outside conscious control

  7. Habitus Taken-for-granted preferences Tastes Taste makes a virtue out of necessity What is your favourite comfort food?

  8. Habitus is embodied knowledge or competence importantly informed by social class

  9. Social world Social World structures individualindividual “When a habitus encounters a social world of which it is a product, it is like a ‘fish in water’”

  10. Liverpool footballers when are they fish in/out of water? • Being Liverpool FC clip

  11. Taste Tastes are learnt not innate Your tastes make up your habitus

  12. Distinction Tastes are distastes of others

  13. Choices of sport are interrelated to all other possible sports

  14. Cultural Capital Symbolic weatlth

  15. In what ways does sport provide capital?

  16. Social capital Bourdieu and social capital • In what ways does sport relate to social capital? • Can we see it as an expression of social capital? • Can you spot social capital in sporting groups? • Can it provide social capital? • How can sport be valuable as social capital? • How do members of (sporting) social groups protect their social capital? • How do members stop outsiders from joining their groups?

  17. Physical Capital see “The Body and Social Theory” Chris Shilling Bodies have value

  18. The body and social difference Working class body A means to an end Excitement Machine-like

  19. Dominant classes Health Appearance Self-presentation Deportment is restrained measured self-assured

  20. Differences within the dominant classes Upwardly mobile insecure Intellectual middle classes Seek out highly distinct activities

  21. Body is central in determining the distributions of physical activities Economic barriers not sufficient in explaining class-based patterns in sport

  22. The Wimbledon brand The meanings of Wimbledon have been reconfigured during its existence 19th Century legacy of class and gender relations: surburban lawns; courtship rituals; ladies and gentlemen Now deliberately commodified and broadcast to a global audience Think about the shifting meanings of spaces like Wimbledon as a result of globalisation and commercialisation ... How was the space presented to us?

  23. Englishness and the Wimbledon Brand Dating back to 1877, "The Championships" has become a global brand that made almost $50 million in aftertax profit last year. Televised coverage of the two-week event now reaches 562 million homes in 178 countries, and 445,000 spectators, paying anywhere from $10 to $180 per ticket (at official prices), will pass through the gates before the tournament culminates with the men's final…

  24. All this has made the championship a golden goose for the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which hosts the event. Big-name companies, such as Rolex, IBM (IBM), and HSBC (HBC) have signed up to get a piece of the action. Organizers even tapped Polo Ralph Lauren (RL) to design the uniforms for Wimbledon staff.

  25. Shifting meanings of Wimbledon Compare the beginning of the 2005 Ladies semi-finals as broadcast on the BBC (UK) and NBC (USA) • How is the social history of tennis made part of the contemporary consumer experience of Wimbledon?

  26. BBC opening sequence Wimbledon Ladies Final 2005

  27. NBC opening sequence Ladies finals 2005

  28. Exclusively for Everyone? Think about the ways that hierarchies of bodies and access are built into the brand of Wimbledon …

  29. The Grunting Controversy

  30. Name something about you that gives an insight into your habitus • Start your sentence with “I feel like a ‘fish in water’ when ….”

  31. 1 2 3 Understand the contribution of Bourdieu for understanding sport habitus, distinction, cultural, social and physical capital Wimbledon and social class

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