Professional cyclists and processes of identification and dis-identification

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Chapter 8 in Power, Pain and Professional Cycling, 2024, pp 128-142 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explains how intra- and intergenerational similarity of experience which included physical and psychological ‘suffering’, and the wider social structure which sustained it, formed a social ether in which the we-identity of cyclists developed across the generations. This contributed to a level of social cohesion and integration which buffered cyclists to a degree against the stigmatising effects and social constraints directed at them in relation to doping. However, dis-identification processes have also emerged as both the perceived similarity of experience changed in tandem with an advance in the threshold of repugnance.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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