Coz football is what we all have

Masculinities, Practice, Performance and Effervescence in a Gender-Sensitised Weight-Loss and Healthy Living Programme for Men

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2249104
AutoresChristopher Bunn (0000-0001-6604-1305, Institute of Health and Wellbeing University of Glasgow Scotland UK, autor de correspondencia), Sally Wyke (0000-0002-7509-8247, Institute of Health and Wellbeing University of Glasgow Scotland UK), Cindy M Gray (0000-0002-4295-6110, Institute of Health and Wellbeing University of Glasgow Scotland UK), Alair Maclean (0000-0002-9650-2376, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit University of Glasgow Scotland UK), Kate Hunt (0000-0002-5873-3632, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit University of Glasgow Scotland UK)
Año2016
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas812-828
Fecha de publicación2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12402
PMID26864994
OpenAlexW2210505100
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas54

In this paper we use a social practice approach to explore men's experience of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a group-based weight management programme for men that harnesses men's symbolic attachment to professional football clubs to engage them in lifestyle change. FFIT is delivered by community coaches in clubs' stadia and is gender-sensitised in relation to context, content and style of delivery. Using a 'toolkit' of concepts from the work of Bourdieu, Goffman and Durkheim we analysed data from 13 focus group discussions with participants, and fieldwork notes from programme observations to investigate the appeal and success of FFIT, and how it worked to support change. Our analysis builds on our work on the importance of shared symbolic commitment to the football club and being with 'men like me' to understand how the interaction context facilitated 'effervescent' experiences. These experiences encouraged men to make changes to their diet and physical activity, talk about them, practice performing them and implement them in their lives. Thus a social practice approach illuminated the social processes through which lifestyle change was achieved, and we argue that it can deepen and enrich both intervention design and evaluation

Appeal · Club · Context (archaeology · Focus group · Football · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Gender Studies · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts