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Perfect Body: Ethnography of Body in Gym Environment
Hemerová, Aneta ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Lachmann, Filip (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on world of the gym and its members. Its aim is to clarify how the gym shapes the body fitness and how its members perceive body image. This theme is viewed through several theoretical approaches, through mindful body, which is in the context of Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock perceived as individual, social and political body linked together. Furthermore habitus which in conjunction with the theory of Pierre Bourdieu explains environment that is specific for the gym and explains the characteristics of the gym, its culture which is gradually embodied into the bodies of its members. And finally, the gym environment which is understood through the theory of Ray Oldenburg and his third place. The research is based on participant observation of chosen gym. Also it was intensively complemented by research interviews with the gym's members. The analysis shows that this environment shapes the body and the perception of the body in several ways. By placing mirrors across the walls that urge to constant observing of one's body and the body of others, and therefore they tempt for comparison and evaluation. By visual ads of ideal body image that is characteristic for this environment. By machines themselves, their positioning together with weights whose colours creates a...
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Self-presentation of Fitness Trainers on Instagram
Shelevaia, Anastasiia ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Krištofič, Peter (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of self-presentation of the Czech personal fitness trainers on the Instagram. Because of the large expansion of the internet and social networks, for example the Instagram, the form of interpersonal relationships has changed and not only the personal but also the professional ones. Since the idea of offering the goods, services and web services online is spreading, on the Instagram in particular, the need to study this phenomenon has emerged. The objective of this thesis is to provide a look into the phenomenon of the professional self- presentation of fitness trainers in the online world, with the example of the social network Instagram. The theoretical framework for this thesis is the dramaturgical approach of Erving Goffman and his basic terms such as "backstage", "frontstage", "appearance", "special equipment". The practical part of the thesis is based on the content analysis of the profiles of the individual personal fitness trainer on the Instagram and uses visual and text demonstrations from the profiles themselves. The main result of the research is the interpretation of the phenomenon of self-presentation related to the dramaturgical approach, the detection of the similarities and differences between the individual trainers in the forms of presentation in...
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Perfect Body: Ethnography of Body in Gym Environment
Hemerová, Aneta ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Lachmann, Filip (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on world of the gym and its members. Its aim is to clarify how the gym shapes the body fitness and how its members perceive body image. This theme is viewed through several theoretical approaches, through mindful body, which is in the context of Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock perceived as individual, social and political body linked together. Furthermore habitus which in conjunction with the theory of Pierre Bourdieu explains environment that is specific for the gym and explains the characteristics of the gym, its culture which is gradually embodied into the bodies of its members. And finally, the gym environment which is understood through the theory of Ray Oldenburg and his third place. The research is based on participant observation of chosen gym. Also it was intensively complemented by research interviews with the gym's members. The analysis shows that this environment shapes the body and the perception of the body in several ways. By placing mirrors across the walls that urge to constant observing of one's body and the body of others, and therefore they tempt for comparison and evaluation. By visual ads of ideal body image that is characteristic for this environment. By machines themselves, their positioning together with weights whose colours creates a...
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