Department of Sociology, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA.
Sociol Health Illn. 2010 Feb 1;32(2):304-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01214.x. Epub 2009 Dec 9.
Based on five months of participant observation and interviews with members of a hospital-sponsored walking club, I explore the rejection of pedometer technology among older adult walkers. Health researchers praise pedometers as a useful tool for measuring walking activity, setting fitness goals, and charting progress towards goals. Older adult walkers, however, viewed pedometers and the monitoring they enable as anathema to walking group norms that stress sociability. I assess the differential construction of pedometers by fitness researchers, group leaders, and walkers themselves. While fitness researchers construct pedometer technology as a motivator for exercise adherence, walkers believed pedometers would create competition and hierarchy that might destroy group camaraderie. In contrast to biomedical models of health and wellness, which focus predominantly on exercise outputs like step counts, these findings suggest that sociability is an important component of health maintenance leisure activities for older adult walkers.
基于五个月的参与式观察和对医院赞助的步行俱乐部成员的访谈，我探讨了老年人步行者对计步器技术的排斥。健康研究人员称赞计步器是一种有用的工具，可以测量步行活动、设定健身目标，并跟踪目标的进展。然而，老年步行者认为计步器及其所支持的监测是对步行团体规范的反感，这些规范强调社交性。我评估了健身研究人员、团体领袖和步行者自身对计步器的不同构建。虽然健身研究人员将计步器技术构建为促进锻炼坚持的动力，但步行者认为计步器会产生竞争和等级制度，可能会破坏团体的友谊。与主要关注步幅等锻炼输出的生物医学健康和健康模式相反，这些发现表明，对于老年步行者来说，社交性是维持健康的休闲活动的一个重要组成部分。
