MOULDING THE BODY AS A VALUE IN CONTEMPORARY POLISH POPULAR CULTURE. A COMPARISON OF A LOCAL GYM WITH A COMMERCIAL FITNESS CLUB

• Authors: Bialy K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is a report on the field research carried out in a local gym in a large city and in a commercial fitness club. A detailed description of these places, the people who frequent them and the relationships between them was used in the analysis of two types of social dependence - communal ties and ties of association. The concepts of community and society are deeply rooted in sociological tradition. That description can also be treated as a source of knowledge of the trends in the transformation of cultural patterns appearing in the popular culture of contemporary Polish society.

Keywords

EN

COMMUNITY VS. SOCIETY; POPULAR CULTURE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 31-66
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bialy K.

• K. Bialy, Uniwersytet Lódzki, ul. Narutowicza 65, 90-131 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03046253