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Developing Fitness Capital

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TL19z4659s

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انگلیسی

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Developing Fitness Capital

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Mushtaq, Omar

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Dworkin, Shari L

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UCSF

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2018

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UCSF

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2018

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Gym practices often naturalize masculinity. Many scholars debate exactly how men naturalize these practices. Some suggest that men internalize gym practices simply by working out. However, this angle often leaves questions about how men reconcile representations of masculinity with their actual practices and social location. Applying a cultural capital approach may, then, be the best way to explore these questions. Pierre Bourdieu suggests that individuals develop their preferences through deploying cultural capital, or cultural resources, within a given cultural field. Other theorists have applied this cultural capital framework to various fitness arenas, such as boxing gyms and fitness centers. However, since cultural capital develops over time, transfers to varying degrees across different cultural fields, and reproduces the social structure, any exploration of the concept must also take these components into account. How, then, do fitness practices reproduce masculinity and the social structure?

Mushtaq, Omar

Dworkin, Shari L

UCSF

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