Abstract:

Ajcardi, R. & Therme, P. (2007).
Représentation sociale d’un sport à risques en fonction de la pratique sportive et
de la modalité de pratique: l’exemple du ski extrême.
Papers on Social Representations, 16, pages 1.1-1.20
[http://www.psr.jku.at/]

This  research explores the relationships between social representations of extreme  skiing 
and practice of skiing. Three groups of subjects participated in the  research, non-skiiers, 
on piste skiers and off piste skiers. We make the  assumption that consensuality of the 
social representation of extreme  skiing differs in the three groups. We furthermore assume 
that risk and  feelings are integrated in different ways. The results show both a relation  
between sporting practice and consensuality of the representational  contents, and 
differences of integration of dimensions related to risk and feelings  depending on skiing 
practice. These results give an account of the interaction between  practice and 
representations in the domain of sports.