Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion: Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism

Antonowicz, Dominik; Kossakowski, Radosław; Szlendak, Tomasz

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“…For example, Downward, Hallmann and Rasciute [11] analysed the impact on SC of sporting activity undertaken in the last four weeks, while Delaney and Keaney [12] examined the numbers of people who participate in sport, and the ways of participation: how many volunteer, how many are members of sports clubs and how many attend sporting fixtures. Groups related to sports are increasingly taken into account as a factor linked to building SC [13].…”

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Do Sports Clubs Contribute to the Accumulation of Regional Social Capital?

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Nałęcz²,

Skrok

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Social capital (SC) affects quality of life, sport behaviours and health in individual and community context. The aim was to analyse how sports activity (SA) contributes to SC accumulation in a post-transformation country. A combination of four longitudinal, nationwide datasets was used. Instrumental variable method was applied. Results show that in 19+ Poles, on a regional level, SA improves SC. This suggest that sports clubs and at least some types of sports infrastructure can constitute a valid tool for social policies aiming at improving social involvement. The self-triggering character of SA is a valuable asset for social impact regionally and beyond. It is important to estimate the changes in a long-term perspective, due to the inertness of the SC.

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Do Sports Clubs Contribute to the Accumulation of Regional Social Capital?

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“…Whereas the Thatcher's anti-trade union politics divided British society, the same society relatively approved of her fight against stadium hooligans. Thus, it was easy to present this fight as a non-divisive part of the 'iron' politics of the British government (Woźniak 2017, 149;Giulianotti 2015;Antonowicz, Kossakowski, and Szlendak 2015).…”

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A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory

Jasny

Lenartowicz

2021

Sport in Society

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This study uses Herbert Blumer's theory of collective behaviour and stages of the collective social definition of the problem to analyse print media discourse concerning domestic politics-related fan activity among Polish football fans prior to the Euro 2012 football championships finals. We describe and explain each stage of the escalating conflict, the wave of football fan protests, political reactions, and the measures undertaken to resolve the problem. A qualitative textual content analysis of media discourse was applied to 68 press articles that were published in the first half of 2011 in Przegląd Sportowy, the oldest sport newspaper in Poland. The results lead to the conclusion that all five stages of the process were clear-cut during the analysed period of political tension between the fans and the government, and that Blumer's concept proves to be a viable means of analysing social problems related to contemporary sport fandom.

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“…Social capital was also a ‘source’ that at some point in the development of Polish football fandom enabled fans to adapt to the emerging democratic system by founding formal associations, thus becoming a reliable partner in the public sphere (Grodecki, 2015). Because of the affluence of social capital, these organizations were also considered as very important actors at the municipality level (Antonowicz et al, 2016).…”

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“…Joe Phua used an internet survey to determine the impact of social networking sites on the social capital of American college football fans (Phua, 2012), and Katherine Palmer and Kirrilly Thompson’s work draws on the social capital concept to explore relations in one of Australian rules football teams’ supporters called ‘Grog Squad’ (Palmer and Thompson, 2007). There is also some work in which researchers have noticed the presence of social capital in devoted fans’ groups (Antonowicz et al, 2016; Burdyka, 2015; Cleland and Cashmore, 2016; Giulianotti, 1999; Grodecki, 2015; Kossakowski, 2015), but they all concentrated on different aims and therefore did not explore this problem.…”

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Building social capital: Polish football supporters through the lens of James Coleman’s conception

Grodecki

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The purpose of the presented study is to understand and describe the mechanisms for generating social capital in the groups of devoted football supporters in Poland, by: (a) exploring those features of football supporters’ social structures that are essential for creating social capital and enabling them to maintain it within those groups; and (b) trying to identify the historical processes which foster emergence of these features in supporters’ social structures. The presented analysis is part of a wider research project on Polish football supporters’ social capital. It draws on a qualitative approach based on the triangulation of a variety of methods: on-going ethnography, participant observation, individual interviews and content analysis (internet forums, book biographies, magazines, zines and qualitative research materials from previous research). Drawing on Coleman’s concept, this study identifies the presence of specific forms of social capital ( appropriate social organization, obligations and expectations, norms and effective sanctions and information channels) and internal factors ( ideology, closure and stability) facilitating maintenance of this ‘source’ in the structures of devoted supporters’ groups in Poland. The results show also that social capital is created on the stands and then transferred to the other areas of social life. Furthermore, the social capital used in areas other than where it was first created can strengthen efficiency and trust in the original organization. Further, external factors like the co-production process and ‘war’ with the state are considered as variables fostering the emergence of social capital in the analysed structures. However, these same external factors also made those structures very exclusive.

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Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion: Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Do Sports Clubs Contribute to the Accumulation of Regional Social Capital?

Do Sports Clubs Contribute to the Accumulation of Regional Social Capital?

A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory

Building social capital: Polish football supporters through the lens of James Coleman’s conception

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