The football club: spaces for capital accumulation

Tucker, Lee

doi:10.1080/14660970.2014.980730

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“…Of the studies that have examined these types of consumer consumption behavior, there appears to be a gap in these current approaches. One approach that is frequently used to examine consumers' participation in a brand's virtual community involves the exploration of symbolic benefits (Ekinci et al, 2013;Ogbonna & Harris, 2014;Tucker, 2016). Another approach to examining consumers' virtual community participation and belonging focuses on investigating how brand virtual communities can provide value to users through design, hardware, software, and services (Kim et al, 2012;Lim, 2014).…”

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“…The concept of being symbolic is particularly suitable for this research because sports teams create and promote a large number of symbols, such as logos and mascots (Burkley et al, 2015). In addition, successful sports teams understand how to engage with their supporters through both virtual and nonvirtual communities, emphasizing certain symbols to create a sense of belonging (Ogbonna & Harris, 2014;Tucker, 2016). The following conceptual framework and hypotheses are posited (see Fig.…”

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Cultivating a Sense of Belonging and Promoting Sports Fans' Travel Intentions: Evidence From an Emerging Economy Market

Barnes¹,

Chen²,

Kladou³

et al. 2022

Tourism Analysis

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The aim of this study is to examine Chinese football fans’ sense of belonging to the virtual communities of their favorite European teams and their intention to visit Europe and watch a live match. Drawing on a survey of 488 Chinese football fans, the findings reveal that ideal self-congruence, brand identification and the ability of virtual communities affect fans’ sense of belonging. Finally, sense of belonging influences fans’ travel intentions, and a positive attitude toward the destination and city strengthens the positive relationship between sense of belonging and the intention to travel.

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Cultivating a Sense of Belonging and Promoting Sports Fans' Travel Intentions: Evidence From an Emerging Economy Market

Barnes¹,

Chen²,

Kladou³

et al. 2022

Tourism Analysis

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“…For example, Bourke (2003), Engh et al (2013) and Griffiths and Bloyce (2022) all assume figurational methodologies. Examples of research empowered by the work of Bourdieu include Cushion and Jones (2014) and Tucker (2016). However, this study uses the work of Erving Goffman as the basis for its investigation, justified by the way it has underpinned existing research of football environments and elite players within these environments (Parker and Manley, 2017; Roderick, 2006; Thompson et al, 2015).…”

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Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves

Hickey

Roderick

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Achieving and then maintaining a career as a professional athlete is hard. Saturated labour markets and the ever-present risk of deselection or injury means that career transitions are an inevitable feature of all athletes’ biographies. Like many other professional sports organisations, English Premier League (EPL) clubs have been called upon to provide adequate support to players upon their release from their club. This investigation will examine the experiences and attitudes of EPL players during their career transitions and contextualise the support that EPL club Education and Welfare Officers (EWOs) offer players during this process. Vignette interviewing was employed to engage a purposive sample, consisting of ten EPL players and five EWOs. A combination of Goffman's cooling-out metaphor and notions of Possible Selves is used to unpack the experiences of both players and EWOs. This study offers the proposition that players are Cooled Out as part of their career transitions by EWOs encouraging players to engage with Possible Selves both in and away from footballing environments. Such a process contributes to the empowerment of individuals to manage and successfully navigate their career transition from one club to another or away from the professional game entirely.

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“…It has been used as a basis for analyses in fields such as social integration (e.g. Jarvie, 2003; Persson, 2008; Skinner et al, 2008), the role of amateur football teams in building it (Tucker, 2016), the role of voluntary organizations and services in creating social capital (e.g. Adams, 2014; Behrens et al, 2016), the evaluation of state programmes in the context of creating social capital (e.g.…”

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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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The football club: spaces for capital accumulation

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Cultivating a Sense of Belonging and Promoting Sports Fans' Travel Intentions: Evidence From an Emerging Economy Market

Cultivating a Sense of Belonging and Promoting Sports Fans' Travel Intentions: Evidence From an Emerging Economy Market

Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves

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

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