ABSTRACT

The findings of this article emerge from an eight-month study examining career identity practices amongst a select group of fitness professionals in the U.K. We examine how the inter-relationship between physical and social space can denote how power is acquired, displayed, and used by individuals interacting in a shared space. The findings show that power is signified through spatial practices as individuals negotiate through triadic space, creating an identity of space and place for both trainer and client that identifies power, and signifies who has power. Fitness professionals with high levels of symbolic power are able to subvert organizational spatial norms to better serve themselves and their clients, while those with lower levels of symbolic power are forced to, or choose to, negotiate or abdicate space to others. These findings are relevant to a wide range of occupations where self-employment and contract workers interact in shared space.

摘要

本文的研究结果来自八个月的研究，研究了英国部分健身专业人士的职业认同实践。我们研究了身体空间和社会空间之间的相互关系如何表示力量的获取，展示和使用方式。个人在共享空间中互动。研究结果表明，权力是通过空间实践来表示的，因为个人在三合会空间中进行谈判，从而为教练员和服务对象创建了确定权力并表明谁拥有权力的空间和位置的标识。具有高象征能力的健身专业人员能够颠覆组织的空间规范，以更好地为自己和他们的客户服务，而具有低象征能力的健身专业人员被迫与他人或选择与他人协商或退位。