Tag: SSSF

In this article, David Ekholm reviews Swedish research literature on sport as a means to realize social objectives related to crime prevention, contextualized by international literature on the subject.

Based on an an ethnographic study of Swedish bodybuilders, Jesper Andreasson presents a sociological understanding of various circumstances influencing the decision to begin taking performance-enhancing drugs. Published in idrottsforum.org’s refereed sister publication Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum.

Kari Fasting, Celia Brackenridge and Gustav Kjølberg conducted the study reported here, using a small number of Norwegian court reports to examine issues confronting those researching sexual abuse in sport.

In a new article published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, “Sex, Football and the Media: The Case of South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup”, Maria Zuiderveld studies how South African media treated the issue of trafficking in relation of the football fest of 2010.

The use of performance enhancing drugs, especially anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has emerged as a social problem outside competitive sports, linked to substance abuse and crime. The purpose of this article is to analyze the use of doping and attitudes to doping outside the competitive sports context in relation to age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and branch of sport.

The Winner Takes All A Qualitative Study of Cooperation on Cycling TeamsKatrine O. Netland, Vidar Schei, Therese E. Sverdrup Department of Strategy and Management, NHH Norwegian...

This article aims to explore how a joint rhythm is learned. The exploration is based on a combination of a case study of training in elite rowing and theoretical considerations concerning mutual incorporation of skills in learning.

The case of how the Sámi Sport Association–Norway challenged the Norwegian confederation of sport’s monopoly for state subsidies to sport. En artikel i Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum

Frode Moen’s and Kristin Garand’s article looks at subjective beliefs among sport coaches in terms of what they consider to be effective communication during practice. In general, coaches agree that during practice they must stimulate their athletes to be focused. In order to do this, their communication must be based on information and concepts that both coaches and athletes understand.

I en ny artikel i Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, idrottsforum.orgs referee-granskade systertidskrift, skriver Aage Radmann vid Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap, Malmö högskola, om hur fotbollshuliganism, detta svårfångade begrepp, representeras i gamla – pappers- – och nya – digitala – medier.