T B Broch
Biographic Data
| ID | 41233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T B Broch |
| GIVEN NAMES | T B |
| FAMILY NAME | Broch |
| SIGNATURE | BROCH T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Inland Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2742-9478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A matter of logics and practicalities: How the state, parenting, and children connect in a digitalized childhood
Important contributions have been made to understanding how screens shape children’s lives, but the arrangement of the constitutive components of digitalized childhoods is not yet fully elucidated. This article draws on a mix of methods to map out how the practicalities of digitalized childhoods are induced by logics embedded in the interconnected spaces of the state and parenthood. To this end, assemblage theory is employed to help explore how t…
Civil repair and children's sports: The Norwegian welfare-state's reconstruction of unhealthy, undemocratic and unsafe sports
How can state politics reconstruct unhealthy, undemocratic and unsound sports as a common good? This study explores the convergence of state and sport politics. Using cultural sociology, I unearth how the Nordic welfare state reconstructs children's sport and embeds it in its broader purview of civil society. Through document-ethnography of white papers from the Ministry of Health and Care Services, Ministry of Culture, and Ministry of Childhood …
Ritual pathways and dramaturgical efforts: Negotiating the meaning of organized play in Norwegian children's sports
This article joins Durkheim's theory of cult and Goffman's notion of an interactional membrane to show how rituals transform social life from mundanity to ritual, and back again. I update these classical theories with a cultural sociology of performance and the sociology of fun to emphasize diversity in social compositions, contextual transformations, and contradiction in meaning. With an abductive methodology, I leverage an ethnography of childr…
Attentive hands: The coexistence of digital and analog attentions in children's sports
Through an extended ethnography of a sports team of boys growing from 7 to 11 years old, I explore Norwegian parents' anxieties about the digital world encroaching on their children's lives. I compare parents' monitoring of their children's (non)digital leisure activities with how kids interact (non)digitally. On the surface, as parents observe how their children's bodies move from screens to sports, they see their kids' attentive hands shifting …
The Ponytail: Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman
This open access book combines sociology, anthropology, and emotion-oriented theories in a meaning-centered study of women's fashion, health, and sport.
Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports
In many western nations, sport is an institutional component of civil society that may be considered from quite different outlooks. From the critical theorists’ viewpoint, sport reproduces social hierarchies through competition and then colonises our democratic life worlds. Scholars of civil society argue that sport actors manoeuvre civic relations and fend off anti-civil pressures to allow integration, belonging and collective decision-making. T…
Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun
Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers
The cultural sociology of sport: A study of sports for sociology
Tårevåte Tiril: En Etnografisk Historieom Idrettskonkurransens Solidariske Gleder
Sammendrag Organisert lagidrett forsøker å balansere individers og gruppens mål. Denne balansekunsten finner sted innenfor et rammeverk av seier og tap. Det er derfor lett å anta at idrettsutøvere læres målrettet rasjonalitet og at trenerens beste redskap er konkurranse. I det følgende rettes fokus mot hvorvidt den organiserte idretten kan forstås som å veilede ungdom i moral og om trenerens kulturelle verktøykasse også inneholder demokratiske ve…
Performing Sport Political Legitimacy: A Cultural Sociology Perspective on Sport Politics
This paper concerns the performance of sport politics. We carry out a text analysis of a year-long media debate that raged in Norwegian newspapers throughout 2016. After the Medias had critiqued how the Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) spends state-provided funds, the Minister of Culture questioned the alleged civil contribution from NIF and demanded change. An archival search retrieved 488 articles and 1604 pages on the matter. Performanc…
Intersections of Gender and National Identity in Sport: A Cultural Sociological Overview
Sport is a global phenomenon that is assigned different meanings in different countries. This article reviews how we can understand the intersections of national identity and gender in sport. Two diverging analytic pathways reveal themselves. On the one hand, we have an intersectional approach, wherein national identity and gender are understood to be formed by universal notions of nationalism and patriarchy, respectively. On the other, we have a…
The Cultural Significance of a Smile: An Ethnographic Account of How Sport Media Inspires Girls’ Sport Praxis
This article explores meaning-making in Norwegian youth sport. More specifically, how sport media becomes a tool in the instruction of youth athletes. Throughout the 2011–12 season I observed how coaches used portrayals of elite women handballers to educate their 13-year-old girl athletes. Depictions of smiling women were used in contextual attempts to convey the pragmatic benefits of smiling girls. I apply cultural sociology to investigate the p…
What Can Al Pacino Teach Norwegian Youth Athletes? A Norwegian Coach’s Ritual Use of Hollywood Media to Produce Team Culture
This article examines a coach’s use of a Hollywood film as a ritualized means for addressing concerns arising from boys’ participation in Norwegian handball. Through the prism of the ritual I elucidate a set of underlying cultural processes that are unlikely to be unique to this sport and setting. Participant observation among 15 year-old handballers was conducted throughout the 2011–2012 season. Here I focus on how Hollywood meaning was used and…
Masculine men playing a women's sport? - Norwegian media representations of male handballers
En gave til folket» – Om markaloven, makt og medier
Performing Sport Political Legitimacy: A Cultural Sociology Perspective on Sport Politics
This paper concerns the performance of sport politics. We carry out a text analysis of a year-long media debate that raged in Norwegian newspapers throughout 2016. After the Medias had critiqued how the Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) spends state-provided funds, the Minister of Culture questioned the alleged civil contribution from NIF and demanded change. An archival search retrieved 488 articles and 1604 pages on the matter. Performanc…
Attentive hands: The coexistence of digital and analog attentions in children's sports
Through an extended ethnography of a sports team of boys growing from 7 to 11 years old, I explore Norwegian parents' anxieties about the digital world encroaching on their children's lives. I compare parents' monitoring of their children's (non)digital leisure activities with how kids interact (non)digitally. On the surface, as parents observe how their children's bodies move from screens to sports, they see their kids' attentive hands shifting …
Intersections of Gender and National Identity in Sport: A Cultural Sociological Overview
Sport is a global phenomenon that is assigned different meanings in different countries. This article reviews how we can understand the intersections of national identity and gender in sport. Two diverging analytic pathways reveal themselves. On the one hand, we have an intersectional approach, wherein national identity and gender are understood to be formed by universal notions of nationalism and patriarchy, respectively. On the other, we have a…
The Cultural Significance of a Smile: An Ethnographic Account of How Sport Media Inspires Girls’ Sport Praxis
This article explores meaning-making in Norwegian youth sport. More specifically, how sport media becomes a tool in the instruction of youth athletes. Throughout the 2011–12 season I observed how coaches used portrayals of elite women handballers to educate their 13-year-old girl athletes. Depictions of smiling women were used in contextual attempts to convey the pragmatic benefits of smiling girls. I apply cultural sociology to investigate the p…
Ritual pathways and dramaturgical efforts: Negotiating the meaning of organized play in Norwegian children's sports
This article joins Durkheim's theory of cult and Goffman's notion of an interactional membrane to show how rituals transform social life from mundanity to ritual, and back again. I update these classical theories with a cultural sociology of performance and the sociology of fun to emphasize diversity in social compositions, contextual transformations, and contradiction in meaning. With an abductive methodology, I leverage an ethnography of childr…
The cultural sociology of sport: A study of sports for sociology
What Can Al Pacino Teach Norwegian Youth Athletes? A Norwegian Coach’s Ritual Use of Hollywood Media to Produce Team Culture
This article examines a coach’s use of a Hollywood film as a ritualized means for addressing concerns arising from boys’ participation in Norwegian handball. Through the prism of the ritual I elucidate a set of underlying cultural processes that are unlikely to be unique to this sport and setting. Participant observation among 15 year-old handballers was conducted throughout the 2011–2012 season. Here I focus on how Hollywood meaning was used and…
En gave til folket» – Om markaloven, makt og medier
En gave til folket» – Om markaloven, makt og medier
Masculine men playing a women's sport? - Norwegian media representations of male handballers
The Cultural Significance of a Smile: An Ethnographic Account of How Sport Media Inspires Girls’ Sport Praxis
This article explores meaning-making in Norwegian youth sport. More specifically, how sport media becomes a tool in the instruction of youth athletes. Throughout the 2011–12 season I observed how coaches used portrayals of elite women handballers to educate their 13-year-old girl athletes. Depictions of smiling women were used in contextual attempts to convey the pragmatic benefits of smiling girls. I apply cultural sociology to investigate the p…
What Can Al Pacino Teach Norwegian Youth Athletes? A Norwegian Coach’s Ritual Use of Hollywood Media to Produce Team Culture
This article examines a coach’s use of a Hollywood film as a ritualized means for addressing concerns arising from boys’ participation in Norwegian handball. Through the prism of the ritual I elucidate a set of underlying cultural processes that are unlikely to be unique to this sport and setting. Participant observation among 15 year-old handballers was conducted throughout the 2011–2012 season. Here I focus on how Hollywood meaning was used and…
Intersections of Gender and National Identity in Sport: A Cultural Sociological Overview
Sport is a global phenomenon that is assigned different meanings in different countries. This article reviews how we can understand the intersections of national identity and gender in sport. Two diverging analytic pathways reveal themselves. On the one hand, we have an intersectional approach, wherein national identity and gender are understood to be formed by universal notions of nationalism and patriarchy, respectively. On the other, we have a…
Performing Sport Political Legitimacy: A Cultural Sociology Perspective on Sport Politics
This paper concerns the performance of sport politics. We carry out a text analysis of a year-long media debate that raged in Norwegian newspapers throughout 2016. After the Medias had critiqued how the Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) spends state-provided funds, the Minister of Culture questioned the alleged civil contribution from NIF and demanded change. An archival search retrieved 488 articles and 1604 pages on the matter. Performanc…
Tårevåte Tiril: En Etnografisk Historieom Idrettskonkurransens Solidariske Gleder
Sammendrag Organisert lagidrett forsøker å balansere individers og gruppens mål. Denne balansekunsten finner sted innenfor et rammeverk av seier og tap. Det er derfor lett å anta at idrettsutøvere læres målrettet rasjonalitet og at trenerens beste redskap er konkurranse. I det følgende rettes fokus mot hvorvidt den organiserte idretten kan forstås som å veilede ungdom i moral og om trenerens kulturelle verktøykasse også inneholder demokratiske ve…
The cultural sociology of sport: A study of sports for sociology
The Ponytail: Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman
This open access book combines sociology, anthropology, and emotion-oriented theories in a meaning-centered study of women's fashion, health, and sport.
Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports
In many western nations, sport is an institutional component of civil society that may be considered from quite different outlooks. From the critical theorists’ viewpoint, sport reproduces social hierarchies through competition and then colonises our democratic life worlds. Scholars of civil society argue that sport actors manoeuvre civic relations and fend off anti-civil pressures to allow integration, belonging and collective decision-making. T…
Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun
Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers
Ritual pathways and dramaturgical efforts: Negotiating the meaning of organized play in Norwegian children's sports
This article joins Durkheim's theory of cult and Goffman's notion of an interactional membrane to show how rituals transform social life from mundanity to ritual, and back again. I update these classical theories with a cultural sociology of performance and the sociology of fun to emphasize diversity in social compositions, contextual transformations, and contradiction in meaning. With an abductive methodology, I leverage an ethnography of childr…
Attentive hands: The coexistence of digital and analog attentions in children's sports
Through an extended ethnography of a sports team of boys growing from 7 to 11 years old, I explore Norwegian parents' anxieties about the digital world encroaching on their children's lives. I compare parents' monitoring of their children's (non)digital leisure activities with how kids interact (non)digitally. On the surface, as parents observe how their children's bodies move from screens to sports, they see their kids' attentive hands shifting …
A matter of logics and practicalities: How the state, parenting, and children connect in a digitalized childhood
Important contributions have been made to understanding how screens shape children’s lives, but the arrangement of the constitutive components of digitalized childhoods is not yet fully elucidated. This article draws on a mix of methods to map out how the practicalities of digitalized childhoods are induced by logics embedded in the interconnected spaces of the state and parenthood. To this end, assemblage theory is employed to help explore how t…
Civil repair and children's sports: The Norwegian welfare-state's reconstruction of unhealthy, undemocratic and unsafe sports
How can state politics reconstruct unhealthy, undemocratic and unsound sports as a common good? This study explores the convergence of state and sport politics. Using cultural sociology, I unearth how the Nordic welfare state reconstructs children's sport and embeds it in its broader purview of civil society. Through document-ethnography of white papers from the Ministry of Health and Care Services, Ministry of Culture, and Ministry of Childhood …
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