The gym as intercultural meeting point? Binding effects and boundaries in gym interaction

Cardone, Pia

doi:10.1080/16138171.2019.1607057

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“…The second article in this issue sheds light on the social role of for-profit sport organisations through Pia Cardone's work in an ethnographic study conducted in a commercial gym (Cardone, 2019). She explores how cultural diversity in gyms is experienced and which practices gym members use to address cultural diversity in their everyday interaction by using the figurational approach and the concepts of the 'established' and 'outsiders' (Elias & Scotson, 2008).…”

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“…A second yet related issue is what we term the distribution challenge. Alongside voluntary sports clubs, there are an increasing number of other sport providers that could play an important social role in modern societies, for example commercial gyms (Cardone, 2019 this issue). This raises a significant policy questions for forthcoming years: how can we distribute social roles across the broader organisational field of sport organisations?…”

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Social roles of sport organisations: developments, contexts and challenges

Waardenburg

Nagel

2019

European Journal for Sport and Society

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Social roles of sport organisations: developments, contexts and challenges

Waardenburg

Nagel

2019

European Journal for Sport and Society

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“…For the non-organised participation, however, the results were the reverse (i.e., nonsignificant in 1979 and significant, increasing with social class, in later years). For commercial gyms in Germany, Cardone [71] argues that, while the behaviour of the members can be inward-orientated and exclusionary, it can also transgress cultural differences.…”

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Through Sport to Innovation: Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in European Countries

Nałęcz¹,

Skrok

Majcherek

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Using clustering and principal component analysis, we demonstrate that—at the national level in Europe—innovativeness correlates strongly to both social capital and participation in sport. In this aspect, countries such as the Scandinavian countries and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe differ visibly. Referring to prior empirical research, we claim that a causal relation between sports, through social capital, and innovativeness can be established. In the context of social capital accumulation, we further discuss the role of sports clubs, often perceived as a socially intensive form of participation in sport, but most likely diminishing in this respect lately.

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“…The gym environment will typically bring together participants from different walks of life, engaging in sessions and exercise programmes tailored to their individual lifestyles, health, and goals (Cardone, 2019). The emergence of the fitness industry can be traced back to the late 19 th century when the focus seemed to be more based on the concept of bodybuilding, whereas, in the past couple of decades, the industry has been increasing memberships steadily, which could be reflected their capability of adapting to "contemporary society" (Andreasson and Johansson, 2014).…”

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Examining Individual Versus Group Exercise Preference Among Maltese Gym-Goers

Agius,

Calleja,

Muscat-Inglott

2024

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This paper presents a study of exercise behaviours among Maltese gym users where it seeks to understand what factors govern choices among gym users to exercise either alone or in a group. It is argued that being able to predict the propensity to exercise alone or in a group presents an opportunity for fitness providers to organise their efforts more efficiently in the broader context of contributing to improving public health and, therefore, possibly providing a more relevant gym product. Exercise and fitness literature highlights various factors likely to influence participants’ proclivities to exercise solo or in a group, including motivation, competitiveness, sporting background, age, and gender. To explore the possible influences of such factors in the Maltese context, a cross-sectional survey was carried out via an online questionnaire, which was analysed statistically using logistic regression. This was conducted by first incorporating the above factors with a propensity to exercise alone or in a group as the dependent binary outcome. Finally, a most parsimonious model was applied following a stepwise iterated process of factor elimination. The results show that gender and age were the most significant predictors of training modality, with being male increasing the likelihood of engaging in solo gym exercise behaviour by over five times. Increased age was also a significant predictor of exercising alone. We present a discussion of the findings in terms of exercise and fitness service provision, as well as broader issues related to the interaction between gym culture and gender norms.

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The gym as intercultural meeting point? Binding effects and boundaries in gym interaction

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Social roles of sport organisations: developments, contexts and challenges

Social roles of sport organisations: developments, contexts and challenges

Through Sport to Innovation: Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in European Countries

Examining Individual Versus Group Exercise Preference Among Maltese Gym-Goers

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