Résumé
Que deviennent les habitudes corporelles des ex-sportives et ex-sportifs de haut niveau ? Quelles « traces » les différentes instances de socialisation rencontrées laissent-elles sur leurs corps ? Cet article propose une réflexion méthodologique sur une enquête mobilisant la photo elicitation pour appréhender le rapport au corps de ces individus. Il vise à apporter un éclairage sur cette technique d’enquête et à faire part des enseignements relatifs à son usage en sociologie du corps et, a fortiori, du sport. Dans une première partie, nous présentons la façon dont la sociologie dispositionnaliste peut s’articuler avec cette méthode visuelle. Nous abordons ensuite les modalités de notre protocole ainsi que les apports de ce dispositif. Enfin, nous faisons part de la délimitation floue de notre corpus visuel, liée au recrutement de certaines personnes via les réseaux sociaux. Nous montrons l’intérêt que peut avoir, pour l’analyse sociologique, le croisement de photographies produites au sein de contextes d’énonciation différents.
What happens to the body habits of former top-level athletes? What “traces” do the different domains of socialization that they encounter leave on their bodies? This article reflects on the methodology of a survey that used photo-elicitation during interviews to try to understand these individuals’ relationships with their bodies. It aims to shed some light on this investigative technique and to share the lessons learned about its use in the sociology of the body and, specifically, of sports. The first part presents how the dispositional perspective can be linked with this visual approach. Next, we examine the procedures used in our protocol, as well as their contributions to our approach. Finally, we describe the blurred delimitation of our corpus of images, linked to the fact that we had to recruit some of our subjects via social networks. We demonstrate the potential benefits to sociological analysis of bringing together photographs produced in different contexts of narrative description and recollection.
What happens to the body habits of former top-level athletes? What “traces” do the different domains of socialization that they encounter leave on their bodies? This article reflects on the methodology of a survey that used photo-elicitation during interviews to try to understand these individuals’ relationships with their bodies. It aims to shed some light on this investigative technique and to share the lessons learned about its use in the sociology of the body and, specifically, of sports. The first part presents how the dispositional perspective can be linked with this visual approach. Next, we examine the procedures used in our protocol, as well as their contributions to our approach. Finally, we describe the blurred delimitation of our corpus of images, linked to the fact that we had to recruit some of our subjects via social networks. We demonstrate the potential benefits to sociological analysis of bringing together photographs produced in different contexts of narrative description and recollection.