URePSSS Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société - EA4488
Sport habits and the analysis of socio-economic insecurity, anomy and rituals among higher education students of the Opal Coast littoral
Porrovecchio A., Masson P., Caby I., Kuehn C., Hurdiel R., Pezé T., Theunynck D. 1 Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, EA 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59640 Dunkerque, France
Summary
Context
Method Students’ condition: critical aspects One possible interpretation : ritual?
Context Nord-Pas de Calais Region
Universanté Methods 7 one-day sessions in 2013; 6 main geographical areas (Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne-sur-mer, Berck, Saint-Omer, Liévin and Béthune); 812 complete files related to 812 students in 2013;
About 4000 students in 5 years; 4 parallel projects, almost total comparability: University of the Littoral Opal Coast, Artois University, University of Balamand (Lebanon), University of Chicoutimi (Canada).
Details Step 1: Access to measuring circuit
Anthropometry: Weight, height, fat mass, peak flow, biology .. Physical activities Alimentation Questionnaires
Data recording Socioeconomic data
Social life Questionnaire Health perception
Moving, Sergeant Test, Shuttle run Sleep Questionnaire
Multimedia Tool: paper report for the student
Universanté Methodological strategy Step 2: Recording, Analysis, Support Data reading, face to face with an expert person (master 2 student) Recording on the server
Automatic calculation of a score sheet
Anonymized storage for epidemiological studies across the Littoral Opal Coast Health Observatory
Individual analysis with the student RAS
Evidence of a pathology and/or expression of a difficulty by the student: interaction in situ with a professional (MD, asst. Soc. Psy. Diet Etc.)
Step 3: Promotion « village » Interaction with extern Experts etc.
Method Universanté
Key issues: socioeconomic status, risky behaviours and addictions
Integration through in-depth interviews
Risky behaviours (alcohol); Media Addiction; Intellectual doping.
Students’ condition Critical items Problems with housing and transport: 1.1% declare to live in a very problematic housing condition (0.5% declare to be homeless); 30.4% receive housing assistance; 47.5% are unsatisfied as concerns the transport system. Economic insecurity: 42.6% of equity scholarships (vs. 35.2% in France); 25% of students have a job because of economic constraints. Risky and addictive behaviours: Significant spread of binge drinking; Strong links between the binge drinkers’ profile and the sports practisers’ one; It seems that we have some "addictive styles".
Student condition Critical items Situations of isolation and "anomy"
New forms of socio-spatial segregation
System of addictive or problematic behaviours
New forms of « social malaise »
One possible interpretation? Socio-anthropological perspective
“Man is a ritual animal: erase a ritual and it will reappear in another form” Mary Douglas
One possible interpretation Rituals
Transformation or disappearance of traditional references, for example the socialisation angecies (co-cause of the condition of anomy) + “Need of ritual” + Creation of “new” “intimate” and collective rites of passage
One possible interpretation Rituals Creating new "intimate" and collective rites of passage
Suicidal attempts, self-injuries, binge drinking, addictive behaviours, eating disorders, speed rituals,unprotected sex, denial of medical treatments ...
But also
Sports training as a form of intimate or collective ritual (Andrieu 1999)
A possible interpretation Rituals The risky behaviours may be (1) a deliberate choice or (2) a non-conscious choice of the individual.
A resource to define or build his/her own identity and existence, to face the discomfort and / or the condition of anomy, to regain self-esteem, or obtain the recognition of the Others.
Risky behaviours can become an addictive behaviours
A possible interpretation As a sort of conclusion The birth and development of "new" forms of ritual "intimate" collective and must be considered in the perspective of social intervention A new risk design is emerging (?)
Moving the risk perception, perception of the reversibility of choices. « Banalization » of risk
URePSSS Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société - EA4488
Thank you Alessandro Porrovecchio
[email protected] Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, EA 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59640 Dunkerque, France
