Lone Friis Thing
Biographic Data
| ID | 252330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lone Friis Thing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lone Friis |
| FAMILY NAME | Thing |
| SIGNATURE | THING L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4860-1123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
PE as resonance? The role of physical education in an accelerated education system
This paper explores how students understand physical education (PE) as a subject in the Danish upper secondary school (USS) and discusses the role of the subject after the Danish USS reform of 2017. The paper presents a 6 months’ field study of PE lessons in 2 Danish upper secondary schools. Both schools were located in the Danish capital area. A total of 42 Lessons in 4 PE-classes [N = 240] were observed throughout the 6 months and 8 focus group…
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women
The aim of the present study was to illuminate how middle-aged women in Denmark manage, practically and emotionally, exercise in personal leisure time within the constraints of an ongoing time bind related to the societal obligations of work and family. The study was inspired by the micro sociological perspective of Arlie Hochschild, and findings are based on empirical material from focus groups of middle-aged Danish women who completed a three m…
Performing Gender in Recreational Pole Dancing: Enabling and Constraining Factors
Many people consider pole dancing to be a feminine leisure activity and a female dominated space, but it has recently gained observer status in the Global Association of International Sports Federation (GAISF), thus entering into the field of sport where hegemonic masculinity has historically prevailed. The strong connections between gender, body, and sport and the gender inequalities that permeate the sports culture make it interesting to explor…
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men
This article offers a nuanced exploration of Football Fitness (FF), a newer 'sport for all' concept carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The aim of the study was to examine FF as a meaningful leisure activity for men. Seven focus group interviews were conducted with 26 heterogeneous male FF players aged 24 to 76. Data were analysed by means of thematic network analysis within the interpretive tradition. Drawing on figurational socio…
Football Fitness - for the sake of one’s health? The perspectives of female players
The aim of the article is to understand the potential of football in health initiatives for women – a topic relatively underrepresented in research. Specifically, this article examines the case of ‘Football Fitness’, a new ‘sport for all’ programme carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27–56). The study shows that while healt…
A shameful affair? A figurational study of the change room and showering culture connected to physical education in Danish upper secondary schools
The purpose of this article is to explore the clothes changing and showering situation related to PE in upper secondary schools in Denmark. We strive to understand why many young Danish people choose not to shower in relation to PE. Traditionally, Denmark has had a quite liberal attitude towards the naked body, which has affected the clothes changing and showering culture related to sport and leisure. However, young people in the Danish schools t…
Trying to fit in - Upper secondary school students' negotiation processes between sports culture and youth culture
In this paper we present results concerning how students in a Danish upper secondary school negotiate between sports culture and the prevailing norms of youth culture in a local school context. The study shows that it can be rather difficult for young people to combine sports culture with the local youth culture, because living a healthy and physically active life doesn't fit very well with the prevailing norms of youth culture, which involve a d…
The rationalization of leisure time – the scarcity of emotional excitement in a health-promoting exercise intervention for women
The aim of this article is to understand how the established biomedical perspective on the body enables and constrains participation in physical activity. Based on a sociological standpoint, an exercise intervention with middle-aged women is analysed through empirical material from observation (N = 57), focus groups (N = 51) and individual follow-up interviews (N = 21). The article finds that spinning is a highly routinized and structured activit…
Liquid running communities’ – an analysis of serious runners’ communities
This study targets Serious Runners, who are redefining the term ‘running community’. The main focus is to investigate how the Serious Runners engage with each other within the new running communities and what they experience by belonging to them. Inspiration is drawn from Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity and community’ and abductive reasoning is used within the hermeneutical interpretation tradition and with a theory borne interpretation. In-depth inte…
No Structure without Culture? A Survey Study of 15–19 Year Olds’ Practices, Preferences and Perceptions of Physical Activity in a Danish Upper Secondary School
This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in a Danish upper secondary school where alternative options of physical activity have been provided to the students. The purpose of the study is to gain knowledge about the perspectives of the students concerning physical education (PE), sport and exercise. The study illustrates young people’s practices, preferences and perceptions when physical activity is a gender-integrated…
Who is zooming who'? A study of young PE-students in their figurations
The article presents an analysis of 93 essays written in an upper secondary school context. The essays were collected in relation to a larger research project, which went on for 5 years in a Danish upper secondary school (2010-2015). The material represents both genders and the students are 15-17 years old. We deploy a theoretical framework taken from Norbert Elias' notion on established-outsider relations [Elias, N., & Scotson, J. L. (1994 [1965…
Can sport be ‘un-political
Sports officials often claim that sport has to be ‘un-political’. This argument is most notably made in two contexts: Firstly, when the decision of awarding Olympic Games or World Championships to nations that struggle with human right issues is justified by the IOC or other international sporting federations. Secondly, when athletes express their concern over social injustices with symbolic gestures of protest in sports-specific contexts
Football Fitness: Constraining and Enabling Possibilities for the Management of Leisure Time for Women
The aim of the article is to identify constraining and enabling aspects for the management of leisure time for women participating in 'Football Fitness', a new 'sport for all programme' carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27-56). An analysis combining Hochschild's conceptualization of the second and third shift [1989. The S…
Quest for excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process
This book is a classic in the sociology of sport and leisure. Although it was first published in 1986, parts of the book were written as far back as 1967, when Elias delivered a paper for the Annua
Are young people caught in the time bind? A sociological analysis of how young people in an upper secondary school view the issue of finding time to do sports or exercise in their spare time
New research shows that even young people, who are still undertaking an education, have difficulties with getting school, work, and family and leisure life to form a synthesis. The article reveals that young people's relationship to sport and physical activity in leisure time is related to the young people's experience of time pressure in the everyday life. Based on 12 group interviews with secondary school students (N = 120; taken over four year…
Young people's perspectives on health, risks and physical activity in a Danish secondary school
In this article, we examine how risk discourses related to health and physical activity are used and understood by the young people in a Danish school setting. We aim to give a detailed account of students’ experiences and to present their views on how they understand and comprehend matters concerning their own health. The study on which this article is based was designed to form the basis of an intervention through action research in the school …
Faderskap og familieliv under hospitalisering af hjertesyge børn
Er emotioner som vilde galoperende heste? En mikrosociologisk anvendelse af Nobert Elias ́ emotionsbegreb med elitesport som eksempel
Are emotions like wild galloping horses? Application of Norbert Elias’ concept of emotion to elite sport In an effort to challenge the concept of emotion based on Freud in the figurational thinking of sport, this article argues that the psychology of pleasure in sport is not exhausted by Freud. With a sociological perspective on emotions, this article reconsiders the knowledge that emotions involve both cognitive and affective dimensions. Elias a…
Er skadeskulturen i sport en machokultur
Lone Friis Thing: Is sport injury gendered? This article discusses how sport injuries in female handball in a non-professional context intersect with masculinity codes. It asks whether dominant forms of masculinity involve learned behaviours that cause risk taking, violence or disregard for health. The article is based on data from 17 qualitative interviews with women handball players, with cross ligament (acl-ligament) injuries and field observa…
Kroppen – og de unevnelige emotioner
Er kvinders boldspil en tavs social kritik
Min mormor er ikke vild med fodbold
Køn hverken overskrides eller determineres i sport. Køn er allestedsnærværende i sportens rum, men tillægges mangfoldige betydninger både fysisk, psykisk, socialt og kulturelt. Dette diskuteres ved en analyse af kønnede betydningslag i danske elitesportskvinders levede erfaringer
The Female Warrior: Meanings of Play-Aggressive Emotions in Sport
Sport is in this article analysed as an antithesis to ordinary life situations, a sphere where the dynamics of symbolic play contrast with the routinization and restraint of emotions in the life of modern society. In an effort to challenge the concept of emotion based on Freud in the figurational thinking of sport, it is argued that the psychology of pleasure in sport is not exhausted by Freud. With a sociological perspective on emotions in femal…
Can sport be ‘un-political
Sports officials often claim that sport has to be ‘un-political’. This argument is most notably made in two contexts: Firstly, when the decision of awarding Olympic Games or World Championships to nations that struggle with human right issues is justified by the IOC or other international sporting federations. Secondly, when athletes express their concern over social injustices with symbolic gestures of protest in sports-specific contexts
Who is zooming who'? A study of young PE-students in their figurations
The article presents an analysis of 93 essays written in an upper secondary school context. The essays were collected in relation to a larger research project, which went on for 5 years in a Danish upper secondary school (2010-2015). The material represents both genders and the students are 15-17 years old. We deploy a theoretical framework taken from Norbert Elias' notion on established-outsider relations [Elias, N., & Scotson, J. L. (1994 [1965…
Football Fitness: Constraining and Enabling Possibilities for the Management of Leisure Time for Women
The aim of the article is to identify constraining and enabling aspects for the management of leisure time for women participating in 'Football Fitness', a new 'sport for all programme' carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27-56). An analysis combining Hochschild's conceptualization of the second and third shift [1989. The S…
The Female Warrior: Meanings of Play-Aggressive Emotions in Sport
Sport is in this article analysed as an antithesis to ordinary life situations, a sphere where the dynamics of symbolic play contrast with the routinization and restraint of emotions in the life of modern society. In an effort to challenge the concept of emotion based on Freud in the figurational thinking of sport, it is argued that the psychology of pleasure in sport is not exhausted by Freud. With a sociological perspective on emotions in femal…
Quest for excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process
This book is a classic in the sociology of sport and leisure. Although it was first published in 1986, parts of the book were written as far back as 1967, when Elias delivered a paper for the Annua
No Structure without Culture? A Survey Study of 15–19 Year Olds’ Practices, Preferences and Perceptions of Physical Activity in a Danish Upper Secondary School
This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in a Danish upper secondary school where alternative options of physical activity have been provided to the students. The purpose of the study is to gain knowledge about the perspectives of the students concerning physical education (PE), sport and exercise. The study illustrates young people’s practices, preferences and perceptions when physical activity is a gender-integrated…
A shameful affair? A figurational study of the change room and showering culture connected to physical education in Danish upper secondary schools
The purpose of this article is to explore the clothes changing and showering situation related to PE in upper secondary schools in Denmark. We strive to understand why many young Danish people choose not to shower in relation to PE. Traditionally, Denmark has had a quite liberal attitude towards the naked body, which has affected the clothes changing and showering culture related to sport and leisure. However, young people in the Danish schools t…
Liquid running communities’ – an analysis of serious runners’ communities
This study targets Serious Runners, who are redefining the term ‘running community’. The main focus is to investigate how the Serious Runners engage with each other within the new running communities and what they experience by belonging to them. Inspiration is drawn from Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity and community’ and abductive reasoning is used within the hermeneutical interpretation tradition and with a theory borne interpretation. In-depth inte…
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women
The aim of the present study was to illuminate how middle-aged women in Denmark manage, practically and emotionally, exercise in personal leisure time within the constraints of an ongoing time bind related to the societal obligations of work and family. The study was inspired by the micro sociological perspective of Arlie Hochschild, and findings are based on empirical material from focus groups of middle-aged Danish women who completed a three m…
Performing Gender in Recreational Pole Dancing: Enabling and Constraining Factors
Many people consider pole dancing to be a feminine leisure activity and a female dominated space, but it has recently gained observer status in the Global Association of International Sports Federation (GAISF), thus entering into the field of sport where hegemonic masculinity has historically prevailed. The strong connections between gender, body, and sport and the gender inequalities that permeate the sports culture make it interesting to explor…
Trying to fit in - Upper secondary school students' negotiation processes between sports culture and youth culture
In this paper we present results concerning how students in a Danish upper secondary school negotiate between sports culture and the prevailing norms of youth culture in a local school context. The study shows that it can be rather difficult for young people to combine sports culture with the local youth culture, because living a healthy and physically active life doesn't fit very well with the prevailing norms of youth culture, which involve a d…
Are young people caught in the time bind? A sociological analysis of how young people in an upper secondary school view the issue of finding time to do sports or exercise in their spare time
New research shows that even young people, who are still undertaking an education, have difficulties with getting school, work, and family and leisure life to form a synthesis. The article reveals that young people's relationship to sport and physical activity in leisure time is related to the young people's experience of time pressure in the everyday life. Based on 12 group interviews with secondary school students (N = 120; taken over four year…
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men
This article offers a nuanced exploration of Football Fitness (FF), a newer 'sport for all' concept carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The aim of the study was to examine FF as a meaningful leisure activity for men. Seven focus group interviews were conducted with 26 heterogeneous male FF players aged 24 to 76. Data were analysed by means of thematic network analysis within the interpretive tradition. Drawing on figurational socio…
The rationalization of leisure time – the scarcity of emotional excitement in a health-promoting exercise intervention for women
The aim of this article is to understand how the established biomedical perspective on the body enables and constrains participation in physical activity. Based on a sociological standpoint, an exercise intervention with middle-aged women is analysed through empirical material from observation (N = 57), focus groups (N = 51) and individual follow-up interviews (N = 21). The article finds that spinning is a highly routinized and structured activit…
Min mormor er ikke vild med fodbold
Køn hverken overskrides eller determineres i sport. Køn er allestedsnærværende i sportens rum, men tillægges mangfoldige betydninger både fysisk, psykisk, socialt og kulturelt. Dette diskuteres ved en analyse af kønnede betydningslag i danske elitesportskvinders levede erfaringer
Min mormor er ikke vild med fodbold
Køn hverken overskrides eller determineres i sport. Køn er allestedsnærværende i sportens rum, men tillægges mangfoldige betydninger både fysisk, psykisk, socialt og kulturelt. Dette diskuteres ved en analyse af kønnede betydningslag i danske elitesportskvinders levede erfaringer
The Female Warrior: Meanings of Play-Aggressive Emotions in Sport
Sport is in this article analysed as an antithesis to ordinary life situations, a sphere where the dynamics of symbolic play contrast with the routinization and restraint of emotions in the life of modern society. In an effort to challenge the concept of emotion based on Freud in the figurational thinking of sport, it is argued that the psychology of pleasure in sport is not exhausted by Freud. With a sociological perspective on emotions in femal…
Er kvinders boldspil en tavs social kritik
Er skadeskulturen i sport en machokultur
Lone Friis Thing: Is sport injury gendered? This article discusses how sport injuries in female handball in a non-professional context intersect with masculinity codes. It asks whether dominant forms of masculinity involve learned behaviours that cause risk taking, violence or disregard for health. The article is based on data from 17 qualitative interviews with women handball players, with cross ligament (acl-ligament) injuries and field observa…
Kroppen – og de unevnelige emotioner
Er emotioner som vilde galoperende heste? En mikrosociologisk anvendelse af Nobert Elias ́ emotionsbegreb med elitesport som eksempel
Are emotions like wild galloping horses? Application of Norbert Elias’ concept of emotion to elite sport In an effort to challenge the concept of emotion based on Freud in the figurational thinking of sport, this article argues that the psychology of pleasure in sport is not exhausted by Freud. With a sociological perspective on emotions, this article reconsiders the knowledge that emotions involve both cognitive and affective dimensions. Elias a…
Young people's perspectives on health, risks and physical activity in a Danish secondary school
In this article, we examine how risk discourses related to health and physical activity are used and understood by the young people in a Danish school setting. We aim to give a detailed account of students’ experiences and to present their views on how they understand and comprehend matters concerning their own health. The study on which this article is based was designed to form the basis of an intervention through action research in the school …
Faderskap og familieliv under hospitalisering af hjertesyge børn
Are young people caught in the time bind? A sociological analysis of how young people in an upper secondary school view the issue of finding time to do sports or exercise in their spare time
New research shows that even young people, who are still undertaking an education, have difficulties with getting school, work, and family and leisure life to form a synthesis. The article reveals that young people's relationship to sport and physical activity in leisure time is related to the young people's experience of time pressure in the everyday life. Based on 12 group interviews with secondary school students (N = 120; taken over four year…
Quest for excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process
This book is a classic in the sociology of sport and leisure. Although it was first published in 1986, parts of the book were written as far back as 1967, when Elias delivered a paper for the Annua
Can sport be ‘un-political
Sports officials often claim that sport has to be ‘un-political’. This argument is most notably made in two contexts: Firstly, when the decision of awarding Olympic Games or World Championships to nations that struggle with human right issues is justified by the IOC or other international sporting federations. Secondly, when athletes express their concern over social injustices with symbolic gestures of protest in sports-specific contexts
Football Fitness: Constraining and Enabling Possibilities for the Management of Leisure Time for Women
The aim of the article is to identify constraining and enabling aspects for the management of leisure time for women participating in 'Football Fitness', a new 'sport for all programme' carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27-56). An analysis combining Hochschild's conceptualization of the second and third shift [1989. The S…
No Structure without Culture? A Survey Study of 15–19 Year Olds’ Practices, Preferences and Perceptions of Physical Activity in a Danish Upper Secondary School
This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in a Danish upper secondary school where alternative options of physical activity have been provided to the students. The purpose of the study is to gain knowledge about the perspectives of the students concerning physical education (PE), sport and exercise. The study illustrates young people’s practices, preferences and perceptions when physical activity is a gender-integrated…
Who is zooming who'? A study of young PE-students in their figurations
The article presents an analysis of 93 essays written in an upper secondary school context. The essays were collected in relation to a larger research project, which went on for 5 years in a Danish upper secondary school (2010-2015). The material represents both genders and the students are 15-17 years old. We deploy a theoretical framework taken from Norbert Elias' notion on established-outsider relations [Elias, N., & Scotson, J. L. (1994 [1965…
The rationalization of leisure time – the scarcity of emotional excitement in a health-promoting exercise intervention for women
The aim of this article is to understand how the established biomedical perspective on the body enables and constrains participation in physical activity. Based on a sociological standpoint, an exercise intervention with middle-aged women is analysed through empirical material from observation (N = 57), focus groups (N = 51) and individual follow-up interviews (N = 21). The article finds that spinning is a highly routinized and structured activit…
Liquid running communities’ – an analysis of serious runners’ communities
This study targets Serious Runners, who are redefining the term ‘running community’. The main focus is to investigate how the Serious Runners engage with each other within the new running communities and what they experience by belonging to them. Inspiration is drawn from Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity and community’ and abductive reasoning is used within the hermeneutical interpretation tradition and with a theory borne interpretation. In-depth inte…
A shameful affair? A figurational study of the change room and showering culture connected to physical education in Danish upper secondary schools
The purpose of this article is to explore the clothes changing and showering situation related to PE in upper secondary schools in Denmark. We strive to understand why many young Danish people choose not to shower in relation to PE. Traditionally, Denmark has had a quite liberal attitude towards the naked body, which has affected the clothes changing and showering culture related to sport and leisure. However, young people in the Danish schools t…
Trying to fit in - Upper secondary school students' negotiation processes between sports culture and youth culture
In this paper we present results concerning how students in a Danish upper secondary school negotiate between sports culture and the prevailing norms of youth culture in a local school context. The study shows that it can be rather difficult for young people to combine sports culture with the local youth culture, because living a healthy and physically active life doesn't fit very well with the prevailing norms of youth culture, which involve a d…
Football Fitness - for the sake of one’s health? The perspectives of female players
The aim of the article is to understand the potential of football in health initiatives for women – a topic relatively underrepresented in research. Specifically, this article examines the case of ‘Football Fitness’, a new ‘sport for all’ programme carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The article is based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27–56). The study shows that while healt…
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women
The aim of the present study was to illuminate how middle-aged women in Denmark manage, practically and emotionally, exercise in personal leisure time within the constraints of an ongoing time bind related to the societal obligations of work and family. The study was inspired by the micro sociological perspective of Arlie Hochschild, and findings are based on empirical material from focus groups of middle-aged Danish women who completed a three m…
Performing Gender in Recreational Pole Dancing: Enabling and Constraining Factors
Many people consider pole dancing to be a feminine leisure activity and a female dominated space, but it has recently gained observer status in the Global Association of International Sports Federation (GAISF), thus entering into the field of sport where hegemonic masculinity has historically prevailed. The strong connections between gender, body, and sport and the gender inequalities that permeate the sports culture make it interesting to explor…
Football Fitness - a figurational study of a new type of leisure football as a meaningful activity for men
This article offers a nuanced exploration of Football Fitness (FF), a newer 'sport for all' concept carried out in associative sport clubs in Denmark. The aim of the study was to examine FF as a meaningful leisure activity for men. Seven focus group interviews were conducted with 26 heterogeneous male FF players aged 24 to 76. Data were analysed by means of thematic network analysis within the interpretive tradition. Drawing on figurational socio…
PE as resonance? The role of physical education in an accelerated education system
This paper explores how students understand physical education (PE) as a subject in the Danish upper secondary school (USS) and discusses the role of the subject after the Danish USS reform of 2017. The paper presents a 6 months’ field study of PE lessons in 2 Danish upper secondary schools. Both schools were located in the Danish capital area. A total of 42 Lessons in 4 PE-classes [N = 240] were observed throughout the 6 months and 8 focus group…
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (13 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Danish (5 works) · Law (5 works)