Abstract
First there is a presentation of Jane and Anne, two young top-level handball players from Denmark. Despite this and the fact that their daily lives are very similar, sport plays different roles in their lives. Jane regards handball as her whole life and Anne regards it as a hobby. The analysis model and framework of "the concept of life-modes" is then presented. The biographies are used to analyse the concepts specific to the life-modes which people produce and use to construct their life stories, including concepts associated with sport. This analysis of sport practice is an attempt at an alternative and supplement to the analysis of sport practice made by quantitative sociology and social psychology.
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