| Titre | De la chute au vol. Genèse et transformations du parachutisme sportif | |
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| Auteur | Gildas Loirand | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | vol. 79, no. 1, 1989 | |
| Page | 37-49 | |
| Résumé |
©doniste du "vol" relatif. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Résumé anglais |
From falling to flying. Amateur parachute-jumping used to be a largely working-class sport so long as it remained linked to the heroic, manly tradition of its military origins. Since the late 1970s it has attracted a more educated public pursuing pleasure and aerial grace. Taking account of the social and cultural characteristics of the successive practitioners and officials of the sport since 1949, this study shows how a risky, "character-forming" discipline, buried in fraternal club relationships was first turned into a highly technical sporting activity, made safer and oriented towards competition. Through an analysis of their investments in the practice, it also seeks to describe the processes whereby the newcomers of the 1980s managed, by transforming the techniques, to substitute a hedonistic use of relative "flight" for the traditional death-defying use of free "fall". Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arss_0335-5322_1989_num_79_1_2905 |
