'Working out' identity: Distance runners and the management of disrupted identity

Leisure Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 381-398

  Collinson, Jacquelyn Allen ^a   Hockey, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disrupted identity; Distance running; Identity work; Symbolic interactionism

Indexed keywords

IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SPORT;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 34748837964     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614360601053384     Document Type: Article

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