International audienceThe involvement in "gravity sports" (mountain climbing, rock climbing, parachuting and bungee jumping) implies the acceptance of well-known physical risks. This paper focuses on the motivations and social factors that lead to such an acceptance of dangers, in a sociological perspective. Through a moderate constructivist approach, we intend to articulate theoretical views in order to develop a non reductionnist framework (in the sense of Jean-Michel Berthelot) of such physical engagement. Explanatory plurality emerges of the detailed interviews that have been carried out with participants in such activities. This plurality actually has three facets: intra-individual (stressing intrinsic individual motives), inter-indivi...
Little previous research has been conducted exploring the motivational factors that influence a pers...
Abstratct : Today, a certain number of sports are described as « fun » or « Californien ». These spo...
Extreme sports, those activities that lie on the outermost edges of independent adventurous leisure ...
International audienceThe involvement in "gravity sports" (mountain climbing, rock climbing, parachu...
The involvement in “gravity sports” (mountain climbing, rock climbing, parachuting and bungee jumpin...
Defy or play with gravity, exploring the depths and bring their stamina or just their body, compete ...
Defy or play with gravity, exploring the depths and bring their stamina or just their body, compete ...
International audienceHighly-risky sports – moto-cross, skin-diving…– are the only social practices ...
International audienceThe radicalization and increasing frequency of exposure to danger are regularl...
International audienceThe radicalization and increasing frequency of exposure to danger are regularl...
Este artículo tiene como objeto estudiar la relación existente entre algunas variables de personalid...
Abstract: This paper emerges after the death of a Portuguese climber, who died in his descent from S...
Participants in extreme sports have usually been studied from a risk perspective. The present study ...
The western society shows an image monopoly, which has a result an enhancement in the valorization o...
Stéphane Héas, Florian Lebreton, Sébastien Frezza, Dominique Bodin, Luc Robène Extremsport und Risik...
Little previous research has been conducted exploring the motivational factors that influence a pers...
Abstratct : Today, a certain number of sports are described as « fun » or « Californien ». These spo...
Extreme sports, those activities that lie on the outermost edges of independent adventurous leisure ...
International audienceThe involvement in "gravity sports" (mountain climbing, rock climbing, parachu...
The involvement in “gravity sports” (mountain climbing, rock climbing, parachuting and bungee jumpin...
Defy or play with gravity, exploring the depths and bring their stamina or just their body, compete ...
Defy or play with gravity, exploring the depths and bring their stamina or just their body, compete ...
International audienceHighly-risky sports – moto-cross, skin-diving…– are the only social practices ...
International audienceThe radicalization and increasing frequency of exposure to danger are regularl...
International audienceThe radicalization and increasing frequency of exposure to danger are regularl...
Este artículo tiene como objeto estudiar la relación existente entre algunas variables de personalid...
Abstract: This paper emerges after the death of a Portuguese climber, who died in his descent from S...
Participants in extreme sports have usually been studied from a risk perspective. The present study ...
The western society shows an image monopoly, which has a result an enhancement in the valorization o...
Stéphane Héas, Florian Lebreton, Sébastien Frezza, Dominique Bodin, Luc Robène Extremsport und Risik...
Little previous research has been conducted exploring the motivational factors that influence a pers...
Abstratct : Today, a certain number of sports are described as « fun » or « Californien ». These spo...
Extreme sports, those activities that lie on the outermost edges of independent adventurous leisure ...