Sports as Symbolic Power and Habitus of Sports-oriented Students

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  • 象徴権力としてのスポーツと「体育会系」アイデンティティの特徴
  • 公開シンポジウム 登壇者論文 象徴権力としてのスポーツと「体育会系」アイデンティティの特徴 : ブルデュー理論からみた男性支配と体育会系ハビトゥス
  • コウカイ シンポジウム トウダンシャ ロンブン ショウチョウ ケンリョク ト シテ ノ スポーツ ト 「 タイイクカイケイ 」 アイデンティティ ノ トクチョウ : ブルデュー リロン カラ ミタ ダンセイ シハイ ト タイイクカイケイ ハビトゥス
  • ブルデュー理論からみた男性支配と体育会系ハビトゥス

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This paper examines values, attitudes, and cultural capital among sports-oriented college students based on quantitative survey data in Japan, using Bourdieu’s theory of masculine dominance and symbolic boundaries. Sports-oriented college students show non-democratic values regarding gender roles and attitudes of masculine dominance among both male and female students. Their communication skills are high and most of male sports-oriented students are power-oriented. Male sports-oriented students, in particular, exhibit authoritarian personality traits and traditional conservatism relative to other types of college students. They show political indifference, trust in the information provided by mass media and generalized trust for others, so they are ‘naive,’ not doubting the present social regime, and they are less apt to notice current social problems and contradictions in society. Also, the cultural capital of sports-oriented students is lower than that of other students. Their values and attitudes, in other words, their habitus might embody the conservative and non-democratic class fraction of Japan in the near future.

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