L'uomo fragile. Percorsi identitari del maschile contemporaneo

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI
Author/s Mario Salisci
Publishing Year 2006 Issue 2006/3
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 89-109 File size 180 KB
DOI
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Contemporary society crisis has recently put into light male identity fragility - and it happens for the first time indeed. This process can be defined as a conscience trouble into self-constructing within complex societal structures: a difficulty that might reveal at the same time a socialising models inefficiency and a highly complex demand for change in Western societies. In this context gender-oriented identity formation might be at risk, constrained between uncertain parenthood roles and more broaden de-structuralising social processes. Within this context the body appears to become a relevant and distinctive element in a gender oriented perspective. In this respect sport, as one of its social expression, can be investigated as a privileged domain for male identity construction and expression process. The aim of this paper is to revel and analyse in-deep emerging conceptual connections and expressions between social change, body male identity and sport.

Mario Salisci, L'uomo fragile. Percorsi identitari del maschile contemporaneo in "SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI" 3/2006, pp 89-109, DOI: