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Donnelly, Peter, and Kevin Young. "The Construction and Confirmation of Identity in Sport Subcultures." Sociology of Sport Journal 5, no. 3 (September 1988): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.5.3.223.
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It is usual in interactionist research to view the process of socialization into subcultures as, in part, a process of identity formation. However, we prefer to examine this process, at least in the case of sport subcultures, as a far more deliberate act of identity construction. That is, through a variety of means, the most significant of which is modeling, the neophyte member begins to deliberately adopt mannerisms, attitudes, and styles of dress, speech, and behavior that he or she perceives to be characteristic of established members of the subculture. Such perceptions among neophytes are usually far from being completely accurate and are frequently stereotypical. Thus, it is necessary to examine also the complementary process of identity confirmation in order to conduct a more complete examination of socialization into a subcultural career. These processes, and neophyte mistakes emerging in them, are examined with respect to ethnographies of climbers and rugby players conducted by the authors, together with supporting material from studies of other sports-related aspects of ethnographic research.
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Williams, Trevor, and Denise Taylor. "Socialization, Subculture, and Wheelchair Sport: The Influence of Peers in Wheelchair Racing." Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 11, no. 4 (October 1994): 416–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/apaq.11.4.416.
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This study examines the influence of peers as sport socialization agents in the context of a wheelchair racing subculture in the United Kingdom. Using participant observation and survey methods the study focuses on elite and nonelite peer relationships–those between nonelite racers, between elite racers, and between elite and nonelite racers–and the knowledge that is transmitted and exchanged as subcultural responses to wheelchair racing problems. Six main interactional socialization contexts are identified: buying a racing wheelchair, British Wheelchair Racing Association training sessions, local training sessions, domestic races, foreign races, and Great Britain national squad training. Within these contexts elite racers socialize their nonelite peers by passing on subcultural solutions to two sets of problems: those that concern the racing chair and those that concern training. The relationship between the individual and the collective is complex, but peers play a major role in the development and transmission of the wheelchair racing subculture.
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Wheaton, Belinda. "“Just Do It”: Consumption, Commitment, and Identity in the Windsurfing Subculture." Sociology of Sport Journal 17, no. 3 (September 2000): 254–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.17.3.254.
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Debates about changing contemporary Western societies have emphasized the increasingly fluid and fragmented nature of identities, suggesting that people draw their sense of identity from increasingly diverse sources, including sport and leisure lifestyles. Drawing on ethnographic work on windsurfing subcultures, this article explores the ways in which participants create and perform (sub)cultural identities through their “new sport” consumption and its attendant lifestyle. The paper identifies the main features of the windsurfers’ status system, illustrating that demonstrating commitment, not the conspicuous display of equipment or subcultural style, is central to the meanings the windsurfers give to their participation and subcultural identity. The paper concludes by examining to what degree purported features of contemporary postmodern culture, such as a loss of self-identity, are reflected in such seemingly “image-based” new sport consumption practices.
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Crosset, Todd, and Becky Beal. "The Use of “Subculture” and “Subworld” in Ethnographic Works on Sport: A Discussion of Definitional Distinctions." Sociology of Sport Journal 14, no. 1 (March 1997): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.14.1.73.
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Within sport ethnography, the term “subculture” has been employed so broadly that the term has lost much of its explanatory power. In this paper, we attempt to reclaim the explanatory powers of the concept subculture by differentiating it from the concept “subworld.” The paper reviews the theoretical foundations of the concept of subculture and subworld, proposes definitional distinctions, and finally makes recommendations for the use of these concepts in future ethnographic research in sport.
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Klein, Alan M. "Pumping Irony: Crisis and Contradiction in Bodybuilding." Sociology of Sport Journal 3, no. 2 (June 1986): 112–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.3.2.112.
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While the projection of ideal images is very important in American culture, it is in the subculture and sport of bodybuilding that it gets carried to the extreme. A 4-year study of bodybuilding’s mecca—Southern California—revealed a fundamental set of discrepancies between what the subculture projects as ideal and what actually goes on. These discrepancies are examined to determine which ones result from changes that have taken place in body-building and which are structural to it. It is shown that as the sport/subculture altered its image to achieve cultural respectability, it inadvertently created new problems. The shifts are examined within the context of studies of deviance and point to the need for long-term ethnography in sport sociology.
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Green, B. Christine, and Laurence Chalip. "Sport tourism as the celebration of subculture." Annals of Tourism Research 25, no. 2 (April 1998): 275–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0160-7383(97)00073-x.
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Christine Green, B. "Leveraging Subculture and Identity to Promote Sport Events." Sport Management Review 4, no. 1 (May 2001): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1441-3523(01)70067-8.
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Kwon, Kisung, and Jeehyun Kang. "Analysis of the Role of Sport in the Changing Status of Graffiti." Korean Journal of Sport Science 33, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 418–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24985/kjss.2022.33.3.418.
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PURPOSE Although sport and graffiti often collaborate in various forms and sectors, research on this phenomenon is insufficient. Therefore, this exploratory study analyzed the role of sport in line with the diffusion of graffiti in Korea.METHODS Qualitative research method was applied for data collection and analysis. Specifically, systematic literature review, semi-structured in-depth interviews, and written interviews were used for data collection. Subsequently, content analysis, categorization, and itemization were performed. RESULTS International sporting events had an impact on the diffusion process of graffiti. Additionally, graffiti was used as a promotional content for sporting events and sport brands, and specific sport content were used as the medium for street art works, including graffiti. Furthermore, graffiti was used as a promotional content for marketing activities in collaboration with a professional sports team by general corporations.CONCLUSIONS As graffiti becomes one of the major cultures from a subculture, it is expected to increase public interest in all sports and not just in specific sports through collaboration with graffiti.
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Lemyre, François, Pierre Trudel, and Natalie Durand-Bush. "How Youth-Sport Coaches Learn to Coach." Sport Psychologist 21, no. 2 (June 2007): 191–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.21.2.191.
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Researchers have investigated how elite or expert coaches learn to coach, but very few have investigated this process with coaches at the recreational or developmental-performance levels. Thirty-six youth-sport coaches (ice hockey, soccer, and baseball) were each interviewed twice to document their learning situations. Results indicate that (a) formal programs are only one of the many opportunities to learn how to coach; (b) coaches’ prior experiences as players, assistant coaches, or instructors provide them with some sport-specific knowledge and allow them to initiate socialization within the subculture of their respective sports; (c) coaches rarely interact with rival coaches; and (d) there are differences in coaches’ learning situations between sports. Reflections on who could help coaches get the most out of their learning situations are provided.
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Hoberman, John M. "Sport and Social Change: The Transformation of Maoist Sport." Sociology of Sport Journal 4, no. 2 (June 1987): 156–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.4.2.156.
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In the decade following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the People’s Republic of China has experienced a cultural and ideological transformation unprecedented in the history of communist societies. Sport, like the arts, is a political subculture that expresses prevailing ideological trends; for this reason, the new modernization in China has mandated a new ideological interpretation of sport. Contrary to appearances, the ideological content of Maoist sport doctrine has actually been retained in post-Maoist sport ideology. What has changed is the relative degree of emphasis accorded specific ideological elements, so that these two doctrinal phases may be analyzed in terms of dominant and recessive traits. The four primary ideological variables examined in this study are competition, high-performance sport and record-setting, sportive ethics, and scientific sport.
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Heywood, Leslie. "The CrossFit Sensorium: Visuality, Affect and Immersive Sport." Paragraph 38, no. 1 (March 2015): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2015.0144.
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By contrast to the competitive and participatory models of sport, the immersive model (Heywood 2006, 2008) shows greater potentiality as a healthful practice more distant from transcendent, technocratic aspects of other models, instead accepting the body's immanence as part of evolutionary history and the natural world. Because of the largely unconscious, evolutionarily based responses to one's environment, the environment in which a sporting activity takes place has a tangible impact on performance. As our most evolutionarily recent sense system, visuality is linked to the Social Engagement System (Porges 2011). The mediated experience of sport through visual culture might catalyse the Social Engagement System and the perception that the sporting activity is communal and welcoming. Particularly the subculture surrounding the sport of CrossFit, which spread almost entirely through website presence and the posting of videos of workouts on the mainsite, might be said to exemplify how growth in new sports is augmented by visuality and the formation of virtual communities that then become embodied.
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Lee, Jung-Rae, and Ki-Nam Kwon. "Popularity of Screen Golf in Korea and Its Sociocultural Meaning." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 24 (December 14, 2021): 13178. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413178.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the popularity of screen golf, golf played using an indoor golf simulator, in Korea and to further explore its sociocultural significance. This study conducted a case study in which purposeful sampling was employed to recruit 15 participants. The results revealed that screen golf was popular in Korea because its facilities were easier to access; screen golf centers were found at convenient locations, and screen golf was more affordable than playing golf at the golf course. The combination of screen golf and the bang culture that is particular to Koreans has led them to accept the former as a familiar space for leisure activities. The results further revealed that screen sport has sociocultural significance in that its considerable popularity has led to the integration of virtual reality (VR) sports into daily life, thus making the division between sports and games less evident. Golf, a sport once considered as being an exclusive hobby for rich elites, has become popular among the general public, destroying the hierarchal notion that some sports harbor. This is meaningful as screen golf has played the role of an agent for sport socialization, encouraging people to participate in golf even on a course, unlike any other VR sport. Furthermore, this pastime has secured its position as a subculture in and of itself, becoming popular throughout the world.
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Kitner, Kathi, and John Maiolo. "On Becoming a Billfisherman: Study of Enculturation." Human Organization 47, no. 3 (September 1, 1988): 213–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.47.3.92374666m0v1u7k2.
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Sportfishing for large ocean pelagic billfish species, such as marlin and sailfish, is the most glamorous, and expensive, of the many types of recreational fishing in the U.S. Tournaments are events which simultaneously organize and reify the subculture of billfishing. A survey of participants of eight such tournaments revealed a progression of recreational activities leading into the sport of billfishing. Three conceptual models are examined to assist in the understanding of the social processes by which anglers are recruited, enculturated and maintained in the subculture. Such an analysis has important implications for the management of fisheries under recently enacted federal and state legislation.
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Kazimierczak, Marek, Agata Dąbrowska, Katarzyna Adamczewska, and Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko. "The Impact of Modern Ultramarathons on Shaping the Social Identity of Runners. The Case Study of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 1 (December 23, 2019): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010116.
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Despite the growing interest in extreme sports around the world, researchers have rarely investigated the complex factors that have led to a developed commitment to extreme sports in recent years. Precisely, the social identity of ultramarathoners remains a research niche. The aim of the article is to analyze the impact of a sports event on shaping social identity of ultramarathon runners on the example of Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon (held in Poland). The qualitative method used in the article—interviews with runners—made it possible to examine the factors that create social identity, among which the motives for participation, sports subculture, and the authenticity of the experience play a key role. The first part of the article describes the theoretical aspects of social identity in sport. The second, empirical part presents the research results supplemented by the statements of the contestants. In this case, the subject of analysis is the motives for participation in a winter ultramarathon and their characteristics. Lastly, the article analyzes the subculture of ultramarathoners and the experience of contestants’ authenticity. The investigated winter ultramarathon created the perfect space for creation, deepening and celebrating the social identity of ultramarathoners assessed as a value in itself. The article enriches the present knowledge about the motivation of ultramarathoners because, unlike the results of quantitative research, it presents in-depth responses of runners who were not always concerned by existing research questionnaires.
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Appleby, Karen M., and Leslee A. Fisher. "“Female Energy at the Rock”: A Feminist Exploration of Female Rock Climbers." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 14, no. 2 (October 2005): 10–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.14.2.10.
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Rock climbing has been traditionally defined as a “masculine” sport (Young, 1997). The experiences of women in this sport have rarely been studied. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of high-level female rock climbers. Qualitative analysis of interviews with eight high-level female climbers (ages 19 to 30 years) revealed three general themes: (a) compliance to hegemonic gender norms, (b) questioning hegemonic gender norms, and (c) resisting hegemonic gender norms. A discussion and analysis of these themes suggests that these female rock climbers engaged in a process of negotiated resistance as they attained a climbing identity, gained acceptance into the climbing subculture, and increased performance in the sport of rock climbing.
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Totten, Mick. "Sport activism and political praxis within the FC Sankt Pauli fan subculture." Soccer & Society 16, no. 4 (February 14, 2014): 453–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2014.882828.
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Varpalotai, Aniko. "The hidden curriculum in leisure: An analysis of a girls' sport subculture." Women's Studies International Forum 10, no. 4 (January 1987): 411–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(87)90058-6.
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Nichols, L. Dugan. "The Social Mediatization of Lifestyle Sport: Continuity and Novelty in the Online Skate Subculture." Social Media + Society 8, no. 2 (April 2022): 205630512211076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221107632.
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Based on mediatization theory, this article tracks how skateboarders experience and negotiate the entry of social media into their subculture. Building on existing scholarship, I show how social media and digital devices retain existing values within the culture while simultaneously introducing new challenges. To illustrate the phenomena of continuity and novelty in the online skate subculture, I analyze two case studies pertaining to YouTube. The first is a textual analysis of a typical skate video. Released on YouTube in 2020, the BE FREE video exhibits neoliberal, apolitical, masculine, and individualist values that go back decades in skate culture. The second case involves one of the most popular hubs of online skateboarding today: The Berrics YouTube channel, which claims 1.3 million subscribers and over 4,500 individual videos. I show how The Berrics maintains a one-dimensional positivity through its posts and interactions with fans, and I argue that it is still experimenting with the handling of negative feedback that participatory media allow. I also provide a brief history of skateboard media to properly contextualize these case studies.
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Lee, Jung Woo. "The Meaning of Sport: Sociolinguistic Analysis of Sport and Energy Drink Brands’ Advertising Messages." International Journal of Sport Communication 8, no. 2 (June 2015): 174–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2014-0076.
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This article investigates a sign system in promotional campaigns for the 2 sport/energy-drink brands PowerAde and Monster Energy. More specifically, the paper examines advertising materials published on the British Web sites of the 2 drink brands. The media texts are analyzed using semiotics and critical discourse analysis. In so doing, the author attempts to identify the meaning of sport in different contexts and settings and to interpret ideological connotation embedded in the commercial discourse on sport. The PowerAde advertising presents the meaning of sport as controlled and calculated physical activities associated with high-performance sport. This articulation suggests an idealization of productive individuals, and this appears to be the reification of capitalist ideology through sport. Monster Energy advertising tends to endorse alternative sporting subculture emphasizing the aspects of fun and spectacle, but such endorsement is only validated within the boundaries of consumer culture. The author concludes that advertising involves communication practice through which the meaning of sport with some ideological connotations is continually constructed and disseminated to today’s wider society.
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Malcolm, Dominic. "Medical Uncertainty and Clinician–Athlete Relations: The Management of Concussion Injuries in Rugby Union." Sociology of Sport Journal 26, no. 2 (June 2009): 191–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.26.2.191.
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This article addresses clinical practice in sport medicine. Combining notions of medical uncertainty with a figurational sociological emphasis on interdependence, the article illustrates how uncertainty characterizes the medical understanding, clinical treatment, and patient experience of concussion. Faced with uncertainty, the clinician’s desire for recognition and validation through athletes’ dependence on them enables medically based diagnostic and treatment guidelines to be replaced by the understanding and definition of concussion dominant in the sport subculture. Clinicians further invoke strategies that protect their professional status and therefore secure their interdependence with others in the sport club figuration. The study advances our understanding by illuminating the basis on which clinicians and athletes negotiate treatment and the impact of these experiences on clinicians’ actions and beliefs.
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Tsyganova, L. A., and L. Bieszke. "View of Polish and Russian Media on Euro 2012: Comparing and Contrasting." Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law 10, no. 6 (February 28, 2018): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2017-10-6-169-182.
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Considering the role of the media in modern society, we need to understand that public opinion about football fans in general is formed out of the information transmitted by the media. The objective of the study is to analyze the different views and aspects of the Euro 2012: its influence on countries development; its profitability but also the behavior of fans – their cooperation and rivalry. However, contemporary scholarship on sports sociology and football fandom subcultures does not recognize class impact on the near-football movement. European Football Championship 2012 showed problems of development and regulation of football fanaticism. It is essential to see how events on Euro 2012 in Poland, collision and confrontation Polish and Russian fans were reflected in Russian, Polish and UK press “Sport-Express”, “Soviet Sport”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Gazeta Polska”, “The Independent” and “The Guardian”. Football fans’, organization, and culture require precise studies, not only for understanding of current situation, but, perhaps, also for the development of an adequate strategy of interaction with them in the run-up to the World Cup in 2018. It is also necessary to identify not only the relationship of this movement to the different sectors of society, but also a subculture itself and its image in public opinion shaped by the media. In the era of globalization, understanding of youth subcultures is complicated and leads to a paradox. At the moment, there is a modification of the fan movement. On the one hand, we see the transition from bullying to the cultural «fanatism»; on the other hand, the question arises, if the bullies were an integral part of this culture, do we talk about the death or rebirth of culture? Youth subcultures in the era of postmodernism and globalization are transformed, into the phenomenon of «postsubculture», and may enhance the destructive tendencies in the spiritual life of the young generation, increasing the level of nihilistic attitudes. It should also be noted that the movement of football fans is becoming mainstream. There has been an increase in the popularity of fandom in society. This is due to the attention to this phenomenon in the media, in the cinema and fiction.
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Lukashchuk, V. I. "Influence of sociocultural factors on the development of sports." Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science 27, no. 2 (May 31, 2021): 134–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2021-27-2-134-153.
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Sport is a complex and contradictory phenomenon of our time. The relevance of this study is due to the need to answer a number of questions related to determining its place among the values of modern society and person, identifying the possibility of realizing the humanistic potential of modern sport, as well as the most significant problems of its development in the context of globalization. These questions are related to the study of the influence of sociocultural factors on the development of sport. The purpose of this article is to study the influence of national traditions, the social structure of society, as well as globalization processes on the development of sport. It is shown that sport is a reflection of the national systems within which it developed. It is noted that the essence and significance of sport changes under the influence of sociocultural factors. Sport not only reflects a certain value system of society, but also popularizes and strengthens it. It is able to form its own subculture, values that differ from the generally accepted ones, from the values of other components of the sociocultural system. It is shown that modern trends in the sport development such as individualization, massification, desacralization, rationalization, and universalization are consistent with the main provisions of the concept of global development of A. de Benoist. It is emphasized that in the context of globalization, the values of traditional sport are being transformed, which leads to the dehumanization of the sport movement, the dominance of a technocratic style of thinking, to the politicization, commercialization of modern sport, the use of doping to improve sports results, etc. The globalization of sport has become a kind of cultural intervention that encroaches on national traditions and foundations. The positive and negative impact of mass media on the sport development is noted. On the one hand, they promote popularization of sport, and on the other, turn it into a consumer product. The subject of sale and consumption now is not only a sport spectacle, sport equipment, but also the athletes themselves, their image, lifestyle, and moral principles. It is hoped that the formula “unity in diversity” will become a natural axiom not only for the development of sport, but also for the whole of humanity
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Albert, Edward. "Riding a Line: Competition and Cooperation in the Sport of Bicycle Racing." Sociology of Sport Journal 8, no. 4 (December 1991): 341–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.8.4.341.
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The subculture of bicycle racing provides a situation in which the relationship between formal rules and dominant sport ideologies, and the taken-for-granted informal structures produced by athletes during competition, may be observed. Ethnographic and interview data suggest that such structures as pelotons and pacelines create both the opportunity for and the requirement of cooperative efforts between opponents, standing in stark contrast to more conventional conceptions of sport in which only unambiguous conflict between competitors is seen as legitimate. Here the informal norms of cooperation are central to insider definitions of the social order and are accompanied by strong sanctions for noncompliance. This cooperative informal order is seen as especially problematic for novices, as it diverges from widely held beliefs in the independence of competing units and the importance of overcoming opponents through maximum individual effort. Media coverage of the sport, in disregarding cooperative efforts, both creates and perpetuates erroneous stereotypes, making socialization into the sport more difficult.
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Lippai, Zsolt, Ágnes Nikolett Tóth, and Erna Uricska. "Excerpts on football hooliganism." Belügyi Szemle 70, no. 1. ksz. (March 17, 2022): 107–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.38146/bsz.spec.2022.1.6.
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The study illustrates the complexity of the issue of football hooliganism, and highlights the innovative solutions for the treatment of it. The background of football hooliganism by presenting domestic and foreign examples, the types of supporters and spectators, and the role of private security and sports policing are observed. In the decades following the regime change, the police lost their monopoly, and private security and civil policing became more prominent in Hungary. Nowadays, the personnel of private security and civil policing are involved in the process of risk assessment of sports events, escorting and transporting groups of supporters, detaining supporters after sports events. It is important to mention sports policing, a specific part of sports administration. This narrow field can be clearly defined as specialised policing, with a set of laws regulating everything related to sports policing, complemented by the regulations of the sports federations, which also serve as guidelines for the maintenance of sports law enforcement records and the security provided at sports events. Football hooliganism is a social and sport security problem that has been present in our world for centuries, and is something that we will probably have to deal with as long as football exists. Football hooligans are a closed community, a subculture with a specific set of rules and a deep knowledge of their functioning is essential to maintain the safety of our sport events. Nowadays, the emphasis is more on understanding the processes, communication and cooperation, as well as openness to innovative solutions.
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Atkinson, Michael. "Brother, Can You Spare a Seat? Developing Recipes of Knowledge in the Ticket Scalping Subculture." Sociology of Sport Journal 17, no. 2 (June 2000): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.17.2.151.
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Although deviance on and off the field have become popular topics of sociological investigation, sociologists have not studied the criminal or otherwise “deviant” roles ticket scalpers play in the cultural spectacle that is professional sport. In many ways, ticket scalpers have become a mainstay part of the backdrop upon which fans experience sporting events. As a first step in developing a sociological portrait of the social processes involved in ticket scalping, it is essential to examine how scalping is accomplished and experienced by its practitioners. This paper is intended to introduce sociologists of sport to die subculture of ticket scalpers by attending to the in-group perspectives and understandings ticket scalpers share toward their practices. Specifically, using ethnographic data collected on 54 ticket scalpers in a central Canadian city, I address how scalpers develop recipes of knowledge for their trade and how ticket scalping is accomplished as a social practice.
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Pozniak, Vadym. "Features of the Ultras Subculture in Ukraine." Ethnic History of European Nations, no. 73 (2024): 147–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2518-1270.2024.73.20.
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Football is the most popular sport on the European continent, giving rise to a mass culture encompassing various elements such as live broadcasts of football matches, the production of football-themed films, the publication of books, and the sale and popularization of club symbols. Additionally, local fan traditions and supporter fan groups contribute to the rich cultural tapestry surrounding football. Few cultural activities attract as many people as football and within the realm of fan movements, ultras stand out as the most widespread and influential fan group globally. This makes them an essential group for analysis and research into their impact. On the European continent, football fan movements have long been marked by the distinction between two models: the «English-style» hooliganism and the ultras movement originating in Italy. These two trends have served as a precursor to the local development of fan movements in other European countries and the rest of the world. Today, ultras represent the dominant football fan movement in Germany, Poland, Greece, southern France, and the Balkans. In Spain, Turkey, and Eastern and Central Europe, fans have adopted some aspects of the ultras style (Doidge et al., 2020, p. 4). Based on this, one might think of European football fan movements as predominantly following the «Italian» variant, except the United Kingdom. However, in reality, such movements in each country have regional peculiarities shaped by cultural, economic, political, and historical conditions. The football fan movement in Ukraine is relatively young and needs more research in the academic world, characterized by a lack of scholarly works. This article aims to provide an overview of the critical aspects of forming the football fan movement and ultras in Ukraine, shedding light on the features of this group’s subculture.
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Markov-Čikić, Ivana, and Aleksandar Ivanovski. "Digital habits of Generation Z: Students of sports." Sport - nauka i praksa 12, no. 1 (2022): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/snp12-1-37707.
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The new virtual reality of today's society and its interaction with members of the younger population is an increasingly common subject of research. The question is whether and to what extent it is possible to stop the domination of the digital. Is sport an activity that can compete with the new virtual reality and the world of video games? The paper presents online habits and inclinations towards video games of the first-year students of the Belgrade College of Sports and Health, not only qualitatively - in order to examine the time spent on video games and compare it with the time spent on sports and recreation, but also qualitatively, in terms of content - topics that occupy this particular segment of population, talented in sports and sports-oriented, but at the same time digitally-oriented. The paper has demonstrated, on a selected sample of sport-oriented members of Generation Z, some deviations from the digital characteristics of the generation they belong to demographically, the generation in which the use and application of technology is dominant in obtaining any practical information, as well as in communication and entertainment. The sample consisting of students of sports academic courses has demonstrated that a very high percentage of these students practice sports on a regular basis defying the current sedentary lifestyle. Many of them do not belong to the present-day youth subculture - 'the gamers' community', and even those who do belong to the pop culture of computer games prefer sports computer games as their choice of virtual content.
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Martins, Rute, Elsa Pereira, and Margarida Mascarenhas. "Strategic environmental leverage of a sport tourism event: Approaching the global challenge locally." European Journal of Tourism Research 37 (April 12, 2024): 3712. http://dx.doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v37i.3528.
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The proactivity in the management of sport events is essential to maximise environmental benefits for the host communities through strategic leverage. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the process of strategic environmental leverage in an international nature-based non-mega event of sport tourism (Sintra PRO 2022 - stage of the IBC World Bodyboarding Tour) by means of action research. Data collection combined several methods and sources, namely, document research, nominal group sessions, field observation, and interviews conducted with organisers and partners of the event. Three actions, which synergistically linked the environmental values of community projects and the sport subculture, were implemented in order to focus stakeholders' attention on the environmental topics. The availability of local resources and the involvement of the network of local partners facilitated the implementation of environmental leverage. On the other hand, the lack of communication between those involved in the operationalisation and promotion of environmental leverage actions was a constraint in the process. This study highlights several implications for environmental leverage in sport events, as well as for the applicability of the environmental leverage model to promote strategic planning and the implementation of the resulting strategic environmental leverage actions in sport events.
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Brustad, Robert J., and Michelle Ritter-Taylor. "Applying Social Psychological Perspectives to the Sport Psychology Consulting Process." Sport Psychologist 11, no. 1 (March 1997): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.11.1.107.
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Psychological processes in sport are inextricably linked to the social contexts within which they occur. However, research and practice in applied sport psychology have shown only marginal concern for the social dimensions of participation. As a consequence of stronger ties to clinical and counseling psychology than to social psychology, the prevailing model of intervention in applied sport psychology has been individually centered. Focus at the individual level has been further bolstered by cognitive emphases in modem psychology. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for a balanced consideration of social and personal influences. Four social psychological dimensions of interest will be explored, including athletic subculture membership; athletic identity concerns; social networks of influence; and leadership processes. The relevance of these forms of influence will be examined in relation to applied concerns in the areas of athlete academic performance, overtraining and burnout, and disordered eating patterns. At minimum, consultants need to address contextual and relational correlates of psychological and performance issues.
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Lorin Tredinnick, Tarkington Newman, Rebecca Bosetti, Kathryn Hyzak, Jerry Reynolds, and Richard Weaver. "Conformity to Masculine Norms and Attitudes Toward Sexual Behavior: A Study Among College Students Involved in Sport." Sport Social Work Journal 3, no. 1 (February 16, 2023): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/sswj.3.1.77-94.
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Conformity to masculine norms has been connected to high-risk behaviors among college students, including sexual behavior. Research suggests that sport participation reinforces masculinity and predicts acceptance of sexually aggressive attitudes and behaviors, which may be a precursor to sexual violence. However, little is known about conformity to masculine norms and sexual behavior within the context of sport. This study examined the association between conformity between masculine norms (i.e., dominance, success and winning, risk-taking, and violence) and attitudes toward sexual behavior. The final analyzed sample included a total of 547 undergraduate students who compete in collegiate or community-based sport. Results from the ordinary least squares regression analysis indicated participants with greater acceptance of dominance, risk-taking, and violence had greater attitudes toward sexual behavior. Males reported greater attitudes toward sexual behavior than females. Implications from this study underscore the need to promote positive masculinity and healthy sexual relationships with a unique subculture of college students.
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Atkinson, Michael. "The Terrier [Men]." Sociology of Sport Journal 31, no. 4 (December 2014): 420–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2014-0089.
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‘Terrier work’ is an historical and deeply significant rural practice in the United Kingdom, in which small or medium size terriers are employed to track, capture and kill foxes in the larger context of an organized foxhunt. Between 2007-2009, I spent time following a small group of ‘terrier men’ and their dogs around the East Midlands countryside as part of an ethnographic project on the use of dogs in rural (mainly fox) hunting cultures. A small faction of these terrier men living in England and Wales participate in a quasi-legal hunting subculture. In this paper, and drawing heavily upon animal standpoint theory (Best, 2013), I shift analytic focus in human-nonhuman animal studies away from human constructions/ uses/ meanings of animals in animal ‘blood sports’ (Gillett & Gilbert, 2013), and consider a fox hunting case study from the positions and subjectivities of the animals involved. This reading calls sociologists of sport and physical culture to reconsider how human-animal sports, analyzed from marginalized or silenced standpoints, direct attention to the interplay between power, instincts, and desires involved when species interactively meet.
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Yermilova, Anna. "Professional Age: On the Issue of Sociological Conceptualization (On the Example of Professional Athletes)." Logos et Praxis, no. 2 (December 2021): 172–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2021.2.19.
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The article presents a sociological conceptualization of the category "professional age" in relation to the field of professional sports. Based on the interpretation of the terms "age" and "professional athlete", the author's vision of the category "professional age" is proposed. The interpretation of the concept of "professional age" is carried out through the prism of chronological, biological, social, and psychological ages, as a result of which the specifics of professional age are determined on the example of professional athletes. The specific features of integration of athletes into the professional environment, which is associated with the specific functioning of this sphere of activity that affects the process of formation of their professional age, are shown. In turn, the professional age of athletes is determined, firstly, by the earlier entry of the individual into the professional sports environment and, consequently, by a faster entry into professional age; secondly, a shorter work experience depending on the sport compared to other areas of work and, accordingly, a faster completion of professional age. Factors leading to the formation of perceptions of professional age are established: discrepancy between the chronological and social functioning of the individual; effects of biological ageing on the course of professional age; effect of psychological aging on the duration of professional age. The characteristics of the professional age of athletes that have a changeable nature of existence are revealed: heterochronicity, variability, normativity, multidimensionality, linearity and cyclicality. The professional age of athletes is analyzed as a multivariate social phenomenon, in particular, the significance of biographical, ideological, social-stratificational, ethnological, historical, aesthetic research aspects is revealed. The socio-cultural features of the professional age of the representatives of elite sport are for egrounded, firstly, the construction of the sports self-awareness of the individual / community, which is specific depending on the kind of sport; secondly, the construction of a sports subculture based on a constant stressful situation. On the basis of theoretical developments, the author's conceptualization of the professional age of athletes is proposed.
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Szabella, Olivér. "Korunk virágzó biznisze? Az e-sport iparág bemutatása." Információs Társadalom 18, no. 1 (April 6, 2018): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xviii.2018.1.5.
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A digitális világ fejlődésének köszönhetően a videojátékok és a professzionalizmus együttes megjelenését figyelhetjük meg. Ezt a jelenséget nevezhetjük e-sportnak. Az ezzel foglalkozó szubkultúra gyökerei visszavezethetőek a ’70-es és ’80-as évekre, azonban maga az e-sport csak a közelmúltban alakult ki. Ennek ellenére hatalmas fejlődésen ment át, manapság már diverzifikált, így a megértéséhez megfelelő tipológia is szükséges. Bonyolult versenyrendszerekkel rendelkezik, nemzetközi szövetség segíti a fejlődését, és komoly kapcsolódási pontokat fedezhetünk fel a hagyományos sportok és az e-sportok tulajdonságai között. Fontos leszögezni azonban, hogy nem minden videojáték e-sport! Ahhoz, hogy mélyebben megértsük ezen iparág működését, meg kell értenünk, honnan fakad a médiaképessége, és azt is, milyen csatornákon éri el a többmilliós érdeklődő réteget. Magyarországon most kezdik felismerni az üzleti jelentőségét és a mögötte álló tömegbázisban rejlő lehetőségeket. Ennek köszönhetően hazánkban is lehetőség nyílhat a digitális sportok gyors ütemű fejlődésére.
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Esport as business? The emergence of an industry
Video games and professionalism are appearing together, thanks to the world’s technological advancement. This appearance is called esport. The subculture around it can be traced back to the ‘70s and ‘80s, although esport itself did not appear too long ago. Despite its novelty, the world of digital sports has gone through an enormous advancement since its appearance. Nowadays it is diversificated and needs a self-explanatory typology to be handled well. Connection points can be observed between the world of sports and esports. There are serious competition systems. Professional athletes and a fully functional international organization helps the development of esport. To fully understand the industry and its growth it is necessary to observe the media capability and its distribution channels. Hungary is starting to recognize esports’ business value and the opportunity within its mass support base. Thanks to this digital sports in this country may well also develop more rapidly.
Keywords: esport, tipology, advancement
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Sutton, Katie. "The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar Germany." German Politics and Society 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2009): 28–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2009.270302.
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Commentators in the popular media of Weimar Germany paid great attention to questions of women's sport, athleticism, and physicality. Their concerns were not restricted to women's reproductive capacities—rather, women's physical emancipation was increasingly interpreted within the framework of larger cultural discourses surrounding the "masculinization" and political emancipation of the modern woman. This article examines such representations of the "masculinized" female athlete, arguing that female athleticism provided an important focus for broader concerns about changing gender relations, female sexuality, and acceptable female life trajectories at this period. Although the perceived threat to traditional male dominance symbolized by the female athlete prompted some commentators to denounce women's physical activity and emphasize traditional gender roles, the article also examines less conventional contemporary responses to women's athleticism, in particular, how a female body "steeled by sport" was reclaimed as an aesthetic ideal within the female homosexual subculture of interwar Berlin.
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Ramsden, Robyn, Delwyn Hewitt, Joanne Williams, Lee Emberton, and Catherine Bennett. "Tackling student drinking within the drinking subculture of a university sports competition: a culture change approach." Health Education 121, no. 4 (April 29, 2021): 388–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2021-0006.
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PurposeThis paper explores the impact of a suite of alcohol culture change interventions implemented by Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. The interventions were designed to change the alcohol culture at a bi-annual nation-wide university multi-sport competition known as Uni Nationals. This study aims to understand the critical success factors of the alcohol culture change initiatives that were developed by the university and implemented as part of a broader set of institutional practices.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research design utilised in-depth, semi-structured interviews with nine Uni Nationals student team leaders. In total, two group interviews and four individual interviews were conducted with student team leaders who participated in the Uni Nationals. The interview transcripts were coded and themed. The themes were further refined and interpreted into a narrative. A total of two transcripts were independently coded by the first two authors. Discordant coding was flagged and discussed until a consensus was achieved. The remaining interviews were coded by the first author and discussed with the second author to ensure consistency. A socio-ecological framework was used to understand perceived changes to alcohol culture.FindingsStudent leaders were aware of and felt supported by the university-wide approach to changing the culture of Uni Nationals. Overall, the qualitative study indicated that students were positive about the alcohol culture change interventions. The leadership training that engaged team leaders in interactive activities had the greatest impact. Student leaders found the targeted messages, mocktail events and Chef de Mission (CdM) less effective cultural change strategies. However, they helped to establish expectations of students in this setting where a heightened focus on sport was associated with higher alcohol consumption.Originality/valueWhile there has been growing academic interest in exploring “drinking cultures”, there has been relatively little focus on alcohol culture of university students at sporting events. The paper contributes to addressing this gap by shedding light on the impact of a group of interventions on the drinking culture of the Uni Nationals subculture.
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Abarra, Airnel T., and Tamás Dóczi. "Preliminary Insights as an Outsider Researcher in Female Bodybuilding and Physique Athletes." Testnevelés, Sport, Tudomány 5, no. 3-4 (2020): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21846/tst.2020.3-4.2.
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Ethnographic methods provide meaningful treatment and interpretation of data, especially in doing Sociology of Sport Research. Experiences of different researchers imply a variety of challenges in gathering data, especially coming as an outsider. Different studies highlighted the access of “insiders” to their chosen discipline to provide better rapport with their participants, and that the “insider” access might provide perceived convenience in data gathering. Studying bodybuilding has also been dominated by this point of view. The paper aims to present the initial experiences and insights as a first step in doing research related to women’s bodybuilding and physique competition, as someone coming from outside the subculture. The article offers a review on contemporary studies related to the discipline, especially on the discussions on methods and being an insider or an outsider researcher.
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Myung, Wangsung. "South Korean male footballers’ involuntary labor migration: Why do they leave for Southeast Asia?" Korean Journal of Sport Science 32, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 242–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.24985/kjss.2021.32.2.242.
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Purpose This study aims to explore migration factors of Korean male footballers who have moved from South Korea to Southeast Asian countries. Methods Qualitative case study was conducted with 9 footballers, 4 their agents and 2 K-league staffs as the participant. Results As a result, by regarding their migration as involuntary decision, this study could provide academic and practical discussion on sport labor migration. First of all, this study established theoretical framework for involuntary migration of the participants through ‘Push-Pull Theory’ which focuses on demand and supply on the labor force. Second, this study found that a local rule (FA compensation system) of Korean professional football league (K league) and hierarchical collectivist culture contributed to their migration, which has not been reported by previous studies focused on the voluntary migration of mainstream players and it reflected local context of K league. Conclusions In conclusion, this study confirmed that sport labor migration was also considered as social phenomenon and reflected a cross section of a particular society. Through the migration of athletes, we can provide a variety of viewpoint on economic (market) structure, related policy and system in a particular society, and understand migration motives in terms of agency (subculture).
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Mytskan, T. S., B. M. Mytskan, and I. M. Grygus. "BIOSOCIAL VALUES AND FUNCTIONS OF PHYSICALS CULTURE." Реабілітаційні та фізкультурно-рекреаційні аспекти розвитку людини (Rehabilitation & recreation), no. 16 (November 3, 2023): 90–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/2522-1795.2023.16.12.
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Physical culture today is of particular social importance, as its purpose, subject and main result is human development and self-development. Only through a person, through the manifestation of the interdependence of the human-forming and adaptive functions of culture, is there an impact on the individual and society. The purpose is to reveal the biosocial values and functions of physical culture at the present stage of civilisational development. Methods. We used the analysis of scientific literature in the following areas: pedagogy, philosophy of culture, physical culture, pedagogical hermeneutics, methodology of science, innovation, system analysis, pedagogical synergetics, and actualisation of the personal-psychological and value-semantic factors of physical culture. Methodologically significant for our study was the concept of knowledge fundamentalisation, which includes the idea of forming «body culture». Results. The cultural analysis of physical culture shows that physical culture is a field of culture that regulates human activity (its orientation, methods, results) related to the formation, development and use of bodily-motor abilities in accordance with the norms, values and patterns accepted in the culture (subculture). In this context, it is advisable to use a new concept – somatic body culture. The content of physical culture and related phenomena can be divided into functional and performance bases. The physical culture of an individual should be considered as a biological (genetic) and socially determined sphere of general human culture (spiritual, intellectual and bodily), which is a qualitative, systemic, dynamic state that characterises psychophysical health, the level of physical (bodily) perfection, personalised and social motivational and value orientations acquired as a result of specially organised motor and sports activities and a healthy lifestyle. Ukrainian folk physical culture and all its existing means are a unique cultural phenomenon that requires not only description, but also further development and improvement, taking into account the specifics of ethno-cultural traditions in different regions of Ukraine. Conclusions. The identified groups of values of physical culture allow us to realise its essential understanding as a category that unites a significant number of concepts – sport, sport for all, physical recreation and rehabilitation, sports animation, physical qualities, physical training and fitness, sports competitions, physical education, etc.
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Kolesnik, Elena Andreevna, Vladimir Gennadyevich Stepanov, and Larisa Leonidovna Pavlova. "The Study of the phenomenon of the youth subculture and its place in the cultural and educational environment of the Russian higher education institution." Revista Amazonia Investiga 9, no. 26 (February 21, 2020): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2020.26.02.10.
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The article considers the youth subculture from the position of its place in the cultural and educational environment on the example of universities in Tyumen. The authors concluded that the concept of subculture accumulates a certain system of values and attitudes inherent in this or that isolated social community, as well as their ways of behavior and life styles. In the process of analysis it was determined that there was a positive attitude towards youth subcultures in universities. At the same time, the educational environment of universities is not always able to accept the diversity of youth subcultures. In this regard, the authors proposed some areas of interaction between universities and youth subcultures - the introduction of trendy elective courses in the educational space, the development of technical creativity through the maker culture, strengthening the health of students through the introduction of sports subcultures, etc.
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Abyshko, Alexander, Maria Mironova, Alfia Mutygullina, Ivan Ponomarev, German Sabirov, and Anastasiya Chuvaeva. "Restrictions on freedom of expression in the video games industry in Russia." Interactive Entertainment Law Review 2, no. 1 (June 2019): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/ielr.2019.01.02.
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The video games industry is expanding globally, and such markets as Russia have a potential for further growth attracting more and more publishers, and pushing compliance with Russian law into the business frontlines. The aim of this article is to give to the video games developers a survival kit on the Russian market highlighting the most problematic areas for foreign publishers, such as censorship, age ratings and restricted content. The most recent trends in judicial and administrative practice show that Russian jurisdiction is extended by official bodies to foreign businesses targeting the Russian market. The LinkedIn case discussed in this article is a representative example of such an approach. More recently, the district court of Kirov decided to block access on AppStore and Google Play to video games promoting criminal subculture. On the one hand, there are some positive trends for the game industry, like the activity of the Russian government in the field of regulating video games, namely, the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation has recently recognized eSports as an official sport. On the other hand, the Russian market conceals many pitfalls, for example, with regard to restricted content. The situation with respect to freedom of expression, ideas and information continues to deteriorate in all spheres of public life with video games being no exception.
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Liston, Katie, Mark McDowell, Dominic Malcolm, Andrea Scott-Bell, and Ivan Waddington. "On being ‘head strong’: The pain zone and concussion in non-elite rugby union." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53, no. 6 (December 7, 2016): 668–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690216679966.
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In recent years there has been growing concern about concussion in sport in general and rugby union in particular. The qualitative study reported here draws on interviews ( n=20) with adult players in non-elite club rugby union in Ireland in order to explore the frames of reference within which they perceive, give meaning to and manage concussion. Within a sporting subculture which emphasizes lay sporting values – particularly the value of ‘playing hurt’ – and which reflects a functional view of injury, non-elite players tend to display an irreverent attitude towards concussion which encourages risky behaviours and underplays, ignores or denies the significance of concussion. We analogously describe these beliefs and actions as being ‘head strong’. The paper concludes by identifying the contextual contingencies which make the regulation of injuries in rugby union so difficult and by establishing some core principles of public health education campaigns that might be deployed to militate against the high incidence of concussive injury in future.
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Remešová, Lucie. "Migrace za životním stylem surfaře v marocké vesnici Taghazout a změny, které způsobuje v místním prostředí." Lidé města 25, no. 1 (May 5, 2023): 11–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3002.
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In this article, I describe my research in the Moroccan village of Taghazout, where I traced the causes and consequences of significant changes stemming from tourism and lifestyle migration over a period of more than a decade. Originally a fishing village with almost no tourism, it became a sought-after center for surfers from all over the world and a location for foreign investors, which completely changed the character of the site. A large number of these surfers are so-called lifestyle migrants who have permanently settled in Taghazout and formed an international community here – they are mainly British, Dutch, German, French, and Spanish. First, I reflect on my own multi-layered position in the field, and then I focus on surfing as the cause of these changes and the main motive of lifestyle migration. I describe it in terms of the subculture and a lifestyle sport. After that, I focus on lifestyle migration and sports tourism, which are very closely related topics. In the actual analysis of data from the field, I deal with the development of Taghazout itself, and I deal with the types of lifestyle migrants settled in the village, who are most often surfers. I focus more closely on their psychology, motivations, and the types of surfers in the context of the surfing mentality. Finally, I describe the very effects of tourism and migration on the local environment, which include the influx of alcohol and drugs into the village, the effect on bodily exposure, and caring for the environment.
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Fefelov, Mikhail B. "Contribution of the Features and Structure of Temperament to the Development of Aggressive Behavior of Football Fans at Sports Events." Uchenye Zapiski RGSU 20, no. 3 (160) (September 30, 2021): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17922/2071-5323-2021-20-3-33-41.
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The article is devoted to the problem of aggressiveness of football fans during sporting events. The article considers the history of the use of the concept of «aggressiveness» in psychology and sociology and the definition of aggressiveness of representatives of the subculture of football fans. Football subculture is a youth movement with its own system of values, language of communication, manner of behavior, clothing and other attributes characteristic of other youth subcultures, but at the same time it has its own distinctive features. The football subculture is imbued with the spirit of competition and struggle, the atmosphere of aggression and confrontation. It is necessary to take into account these features in order to maintain law and order and increase the security of mass sports events.
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DONNELLY, PETER. "Sport Subcultures." Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews 13 (1985): 539???578. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/00003677-198500130-00016.
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Akkad, Ruba H. "Occupied Joy: The Politics of Skateboarding in Palestine." American Quarterly 75, no. 3 (September 2023): 543–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aq.2023.a905863.
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Abstract: The tangible project of decolonization requires revolutionary hope to sustain it. Quite often, studies surrounding oppressed populations largely tend to theorize from a point of death, contributing to a culture of hopelessness and pessimism. This essay explores what happens when we theorize from a point of life and joy, specifically theorizing Palestinian resistance and place-claiming through the embodied sport of skateboarding—not in hopes of erasing death, but in hopes of providing a fuller view, and looking for ruptures wherein quotidian life seeps through coloniality as a form of resistance itself. Thinking through skateboarding as a subculture, I analyze a nonprofit organization, SkatePal and its media presence, using my theory and analytic: occupied joy. I argue that the skate scene in Palestine functions as a site of quotidian anticolonial and anti-imperialist resistance through reclaiming freedom of movement, resisting multiple effects of military occupation, and unsettling trauma spectacle through the play and joy associated with the immediate act of skating. In theorizing from life and bearing witness to the sense of agency that skateboarding restores in Palestinian youth, there is hope that the theory of occupied joy can do the same for other oppressed peoples, bringing us all tangibly closer to a more liberated world.
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Bajwa, Tuba nafees, Muhammad Shafiq, and Khalid Hafeez. "Investigate relationship of national culture dimensions with entrepreneurial performance in Pakistan: An empirical study." Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) 12, no. 3 (December 1, 2023): 437–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.61506/01.00052.
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Many companies have recognized the importance of cultural dimensions influencing overall organizational performance for their aggressive advantage. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship of national culture with entrepreneurial performance in Pakistani manufacturing companies. This was a cross-sectional study with a descriptive research design conducted among staff and managers from the Lahore Chamber of Commerce. A total of 307 respondents were conveniently selected to participate in this study and completed a series of questionnaires. A questionnaire was developed, distributed and collected as the main method of data collection. Descriptive statistics and SEM were used to analyze study data from SPSS and Smartpls4. The study results show that there is a significant correlation between national cultural dimensions and entrepreneurial performance. This study found that power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, individualism/collectivism were significantly and positively correlated with organizational performance. Research has shown that subculture has an impact on how commercial company sport is conducted in a company. Therefore, it affects the overall performance of the company as a whole. Even if managers and their employees have similar attitudes about how performance should be made, this leads to good results in the workplace. The study concluded that all 5 cultural dimensions were drastically and unequivocally correlated with the organization's overall performance.
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Lehmert, Karel, Eva Ambrozova, Vratislav Pokorny, and Jiri Kolenak. "Microdosing of Psychoactive Substances in Business Practice." Businesses 1, no. 3 (December 6, 2021): 196–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/businesses1030014.
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Abusing psychoactive substances has been a popular sport in the business world since the mid-19th century. First, they were appreciated for their stimulating or tonic effects, but later with psychedelics on the scene, their importance in subculture matured. In the last decade, it has become very popular to use LSD and cocaine in subtle doses, which provides users with a high that is enough to feel their psychoactive potential, but not as high that significant behavioral changes can be seen. Unlike regular use, microdosing is usually sufficient to affect a few without undue finish and withdrawal symptoms. It allows for abuse in the regular mode of the working week with a rest phase on the weekend. The diametric difference between the abuse of standard dosing and micro-dosing is also in the decreasing tolerance of the organism. Over time, an organism permanently exposed to microdosing of stimulants is sufficient to achieve a gradually decreasing dose effect that psychedelics develop resistance to. Case studies of such prolonged use were described and analyzed to show the role of microdosing in the creative world and for business managers. Initial field research, funded by the Newton University internal grant, focused on contamination mapping in office spaces for employees in target positions. Further research continues on the investigation of microdosing in conditions of corporate reality.
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Pang, Dan, and Seunghwan Lee. "The Effects of the Acceptability of Subculture and Advertising Appeals on Consumer Behavior in the Context of a Sport Cult Brand : A Focus on Harley-Davidson." Korean Journal of Sport Management 25, no. 4 (August 31, 2020): 96–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.31308/kssm.25.4.7.
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Dashiell, Steven L. "Hooligans at the Table: The Concept of Male Preserves in Tabletop Role-playing Games." International Journal of Role-Playing, no. 10 (November 9, 2020): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.33063/ijrp.vi10.274.
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This paper examines the nature of conversations that occur at gaming tables in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) and the degree to which gendered communication impacts how individuals participate in gaming sessions. There is a host of research discussing barriers for women and minorities in terms of full representation and interaction in gaming and “geek” spaces (Garcia 2017; Reagle 2015; Stang and Trammell 2019). I assert that one rationale for this limitation is the domination of gaming spaces by men, particularly middle-class White men, and the subculture that comes along with this demographic. Dunning (1986) discusses the concept of male preserves, how sports in particular create subcultures that prize behavior and language that are associated with men and embodied in the male form. I discuss how the TRPG table is a male preserve, encouraging a level of dominance that colors table talk and acceptable norms (Dunning, Murphy and Williams 2014). The masculine nature of the discussion style of this table talk is more difficult by subaltern groups because of the clear association with “stereotypical” gamers, commonly White and male, and this difficulty is demonstrated in various ways (Bowman 2013; Hendricks 2006; Ilieva 2013). I surmise that while diversity has always existed and proceeds to improve in tabletop gaming, the subcultural elements of a male preserve remain difficult to uproot.
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Trammell, Aaron, and Nikki Crenshaw. "The Damsel and the Courtesan: Quantifying Consent in Early Dungeons & Dragons." International Journal of Role-Playing, no. 10 (November 9, 2020): 10–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.33063/ijrp.vi10.273.
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This paper examines the nature of conversations that occur at gaming tables in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) and the degree to which gendered communication impacts how individuals participate in gaming sessions. There is a host of research discussing barriers for women and minorities in terms of full representation and interaction in gaming and “geek” spaces (Garcia 2017; Reagle 2015; Stang and Trammell 2019). I assert that one rationale for this limitation is the domination of gaming spaces by men, particularly middle-class White men, and the subculture that comes along with this demographic. Dunning (1986) discusses the concept of male preserves, how sports in particular create subcultures that prize behavior and language that are associated with men and embodied in the male form. I discuss how the TRPG table is a male preserve, encouraging a level of dominance that colors table talk and acceptable norms (Dunning, Murphy and Williams 2014). The masculine nature of the discussion style of this table talk is more difficult by subaltern groups because of the clear association with “stereotypical” gamers, commonly White and male, and this difficulty is demonstrated in various ways (Bowman 2013; Hendricks 2006; Ilieva 2013). I surmise that while diversity has always existed and proceeds to improve in tabletop gaming, the subcultural elements of a male preserve remain difficult to uproot.