Article de Périodique
Vocabularies of motive for illicit steroid use among bodybuilders (2002)
(Le vocabulaire employé pour expliquer les motivations d'usage des stéroides illicites chez les bodybuilders)
Auteur(s) :
MONAGHAN, L. F.
Année :
2002
Page(s) :
695-708
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
49
Domaine :
Dopage / Doping
Thésaurus géographique
ANGLETERRE
;
PAYS DE GALLES
Thésaurus mots-clés
ANABOLISANTS
;
ABUS
;
CONDUITE A RISQUE
;
DENI
;
MOTIVATION
;
LANGAGE
;
REPRESENTATION SOCIALE
;
DOPAGE
;
SPORT
;
CORPS
Résumé :
FRANÇAIS :
Utilisant des données qualitatives recueillies dans les Galles du Sud, l'article explore le vocabulaire des bodybuilders concernant leur motivation à consommer des stéroïdes. Les répondants donnent trois principales justifications à leur usage de stéroïdes illicites : accomplissement personnel, condamnation de ceux qui condamnent cette pratique et déni des dommages. La consommation de stéroïdes est exprimée comme moyen légitime pour atteindre une fin, les jugements négatifs des observateurs sont rejetés et les stéroïdes sont prétendus être plus ou moins inoffensifs. Ce vocabulaire acquis et cultivé dans les salles de bodybuilding comprend un ensemble complexe de représentations subjectives qui fonctionnent comme des motifs sérieux, fondant et justifiant un comportement. Comme toute étude sociologique, celle-ci montre qu'il est impératif d'explorer les significations sociales que les usagers de drogues illicites attachent à leurs pratiques à risque. Sans cette analyse, chercheurs et promoteurs de la santé peineront à comprendre les raisons du comportement des usagers de drogues illicites. [Résumé Toxibase]
ENGLISH :
Illicit steroid use, for purposes of performance and physique enhancement, is widely deemed unnecessary, wrong and dangerous. Such activity would appear especially foolhardy when engaged in by non-professional athletes who otherwise adhere to 'healthy' exercise regimens. Here a gap exists between many illicit steroid users' actions and societal expectations. Using qualitative data generated in South Wales, this paper explores bodybuilders' vocabularies of motive for illicit steroid use. These accounts which justified, rather than excused, steroid use were predominant during question situations between the participant observer and the researched. In supporting the fundamental tenets of their drug subculture, and as part of the underlying negotiation of self-identity, respondents espoused three main justifications for their own and/or other bodybuilders' illicit steroid use; namely: self-fulfilment accounts, condemnation of condemners and a denial of injury. Here steroid use was rationalised as a legitimate means to an end, observers passing negative judgements were rejected and it was claimed steroids do not (seriously) harm the user's health or threaten society more generally. These vocabularies of motive, acquired and honoured within bodybuilding settings, comprise a complex of subjective meanings which seem to the actor to be an adequate ground for the conduct in question. Similar to other sociological studies, this paper states that it is imperative to explore the social meanings which illicit drug users attach to their 'risk' practices. Without these understandings, researchers and health promoters may struggle to appreciate fully why illicit drug users behave as they do. (Author' s abstract)
Utilisant des données qualitatives recueillies dans les Galles du Sud, l'article explore le vocabulaire des bodybuilders concernant leur motivation à consommer des stéroïdes. Les répondants donnent trois principales justifications à leur usage de stéroïdes illicites : accomplissement personnel, condamnation de ceux qui condamnent cette pratique et déni des dommages. La consommation de stéroïdes est exprimée comme moyen légitime pour atteindre une fin, les jugements négatifs des observateurs sont rejetés et les stéroïdes sont prétendus être plus ou moins inoffensifs. Ce vocabulaire acquis et cultivé dans les salles de bodybuilding comprend un ensemble complexe de représentations subjectives qui fonctionnent comme des motifs sérieux, fondant et justifiant un comportement. Comme toute étude sociologique, celle-ci montre qu'il est impératif d'explorer les significations sociales que les usagers de drogues illicites attachent à leurs pratiques à risque. Sans cette analyse, chercheurs et promoteurs de la santé peineront à comprendre les raisons du comportement des usagers de drogues illicites. [Résumé Toxibase]
ENGLISH :
Illicit steroid use, for purposes of performance and physique enhancement, is widely deemed unnecessary, wrong and dangerous. Such activity would appear especially foolhardy when engaged in by non-professional athletes who otherwise adhere to 'healthy' exercise regimens. Here a gap exists between many illicit steroid users' actions and societal expectations. Using qualitative data generated in South Wales, this paper explores bodybuilders' vocabularies of motive for illicit steroid use. These accounts which justified, rather than excused, steroid use were predominant during question situations between the participant observer and the researched. In supporting the fundamental tenets of their drug subculture, and as part of the underlying negotiation of self-identity, respondents espoused three main justifications for their own and/or other bodybuilders' illicit steroid use; namely: self-fulfilment accounts, condemnation of condemners and a denial of injury. Here steroid use was rationalised as a legitimate means to an end, observers passing negative judgements were rejected and it was claimed steroids do not (seriously) harm the user's health or threaten society more generally. These vocabularies of motive, acquired and honoured within bodybuilding settings, comprise a complex of subjective meanings which seem to the actor to be an adequate ground for the conduct in question. Similar to other sociological studies, this paper states that it is imperative to explore the social meanings which illicit drug users attach to their 'risk' practices. Without these understandings, researchers and health promoters may struggle to appreciate fully why illicit drug users behave as they do. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Dept Sociol., Social policy, Univ. Newcastle
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.