To date, no sociological studies of professional athletes have investigated the lived experiences of sportspeople in highly publicly-visible occupations that provide relatively few opportunities for back-stage relaxation from role demands. Drawing on findings from a British Academy-funded project examining high-profile sports workers, and employing Goffman’s dramaturgical insights, this article provides a novel examination of high-profile athletes who work in highly publicly visible contexts. This working context can render them ‘open’ persons in interactional situations. To explore this sociologically significant occupational domain, interviews were conducted with 26 UK-based professional athletes (female and male) from seven different sports. For these athletes, dramaturgical demands were found to be relentless and unremitting, as back-stage regions proved so challenging to access.

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“我只想一个人待着”：对职业运动员戏剧要求的新颖社会学见解

迄今为止，还没有针对职业运动员的社会学研究调查过运动员在高度公开可见的职业中的生活经历，这些职业提供的后台放松机会相对较少。本文借鉴了英国学院资助的一项调查知名体育工作者的项目的发现，并运用了戈夫曼的戏剧性见解，对在高度公开可见的环境中工作的知名运动员进行了新颖的研究。这种工作环境可以使他们在互动情况下成为“开放”的人。为了探索这个具有社会学意义的职业领域，对来自七项不同运动的 26 名英国职业运动员（女性和男性）进行了采访。对于这些运动员来说，戏剧性的要求是无情和不懈的，