La sociologie des pratiques sociales concue par Paul Yonnet, sert ici de fil conducteur pour positionner les approches de leur massification dans le champ des theories sociologiques contemporaines sensibles a l'analyse de la diffusion des pratiques culturelles, notamment des activites physiques et sportives. L'objectif est alors de saisir les conflictualites des theses anthropo-sociologiques qui conduisent non seulement a des interpretations differenciees du social, mais encore a des enjeux dissimules dont les consequences visent la reconnaissance ou non - et donc la legitimite - des pratiques sportives comme pratiques "cultivees", dans le champ social ou dans celui de l'education. Nous nous placons ici dans un type de recherche attentive a une sociologie de la connaissance, visant a saisir les mecanismes de production de la connaissance sociologique, jamais desincarnee des conflits nes des antagonismes des theories en presence, conflits generateurs de sens jamais desengages d'une volonte concrete d'action et de changement dans les valeurs des pratiques sociales "ordinaires".

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Les jeux et les hommes

La massification des pratiques sociales : enjeux sur la culture. Autour de l'individualisme démocratique et de Jeux, modes et masses, 1945-1985 : La société française et le moderne de Paul Yonnet.

The sociology of sport as a structured body of specialized knowledge was established quite late (not before 1970). However, it developed quite rapidly, showing some original features, with a partic...

The Situation of Sport Sociology in France

Les conduites ordaliques ne sont que l’un des multiples angles sous lesquels peut etre abordee la relation du sujet au risque. Elles permettent cependant d’eclairer certaines formes de conduites de risque, comme d’ailleurs un aspect de l’addiction aux drogues, mais aussi aux jeux de hasard et d’argent. Le recours a des epreuves ordaliques pourrait etre considere, a l’interieur d’un processus addictif, comme une tentative pour le sujet, a travers un vecu de mort et de renaissance, de se refaire, de repartir a zero, de redonner un sens a son existence.

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L’ordalie : au risque du hasard

This paper investigates the structuration of space imposed, on one hand, by games and, on the other, by narrative fiction. While most games create an alternative space, separated from ordinary reality by what Johan Huizinga called a magic circle, narrative fiction transports its users into an alternative possible world separated from the real world by the conventions of make-believe. Games can be divided into those that take place on an abstract playfield strategically structured by lines, and those that interpret the playfield as a fictional world populated with concrete objects that speak to the player’s imagination. An early attempt to turn a playfield into a fictional world permeated with narrative content is a seventeenth century dice game based on Ludovico Ariosto’s poem Orlando Furioso
	 . In the Ariosto game, the activity that constitutes gameplay—throwing dice and advancing a token on the game board—remains unrelated to the narrative theme; it is only with digital technology that the gap between gameplay and narrative is bridged through a symbolic interpretation that maps the player’s real-world actions (hitting keys, manipulating controls) into events that take place in a fictional world (defeating enemies, acquiring merit). While the Ariosto game contrasts in this respect with computer games, the narrative thematics of Ariosto’s poem present a striking similarity with the design of today’s multiplayer online games.

From Playfields to Fictional Worlds: A Second Life for Ariosto

Dance is one form of entertainment where physical movement is the key factor. The main reason why robots are experiencing a kind of ldquoboomrdquo is that they have a physical body. We propose a robot dance system that combines these two elements. First, various factors concerning entertainment and dance are studied. Then we propose the dance system by robot using motion unit and the synthetic rule referring the speech synthesis. Also we describe the details of the system by focusing on its software functions. Finally we show the evaluation results of robot dance performances.

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Les jeux et les hommes

Citations

La massification des pratiques sociales : enjeux sur la culture. Autour de l'individualisme démocratique et de Jeux, modes et masses, 1945-1985 : La société française et le moderne de Paul Yonnet.

The Situation of Sport Sociology in France

L’ordalie : au risque du hasard

From Playfields to Fictional Worlds: A Second Life for Ariosto

Construction and evaluation of a robot dance system

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