Physical Activity Relationship (PAR)

Bibliographic Data

ID2377928
AuthorsPasi Koski (0000-0001-5352-3698, University of Turku, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume43
Issue2
Pages151-163
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1012690208095374
OpenAlexW2076199257
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

This article presents a concept and an approach for analysing and understanding an individual's relationship to physical culture. Physical activity relationship (PAR) is a concept by which sport and physical activities are approached as a cultural part of life to which all of us have a relationship. According to Unruh (1980) we live in many different social worlds at the same time and based on his classification we have different roles in these social worlds. We can be strangers, tourists, regulars or insiders. The deeper we are involved in a certain social world the better we see and understand the meanings of this world. Sport and physical activities can be conceptualized as such a social world. The relationship which describes how we encounter this world and its culture is referred to here as PAR. This article suggests that although there is clear interest in personal physical activity by the field of sport and exercise science, PAR also covers three other dimensions: following, producing and consuming the meanings of sport and physical activities. Arguably, the PAR framework may be able to offer insights for those seeking to establish sport, exercise and physical activity as fundamental aspects of a healthy lifestyle and core feature of contemporary identity formation

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Physical activity · Physical culture · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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