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Tribal Play - Subcultural Journeys Through Sport (Hardcover, 4th ed.)
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Tribal Play - Subcultural Journeys Through Sport (Hardcover, 4th ed.)
Series: Research in the Sociology of Sport
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Traceable as far back as the work of the path-breaking ???Chicago
School??? of Sociology in the 1920s and 1930s, ???subculture??? and
???counterculture??? have long been conceptual staples of the
discipline. Implemented originally to designate and describe
smaller, often deviant or delinquent, groups within larger social
communities, the terms gained pace in their use in mid-twentieth
century criminological research, and especially with the
development of Cultural Studies in the United Kingdom in the 1970s,
where they became widely used to describe processes of social
class-based opposition, resistance and protest. More recently,
sociologists have moved beyond a strict conformity-resistance model
in accounting for the behaviour of sub-communities that coalesce
around particular values, behaviours, or preferences. Indeed,
contemporary sociological research has raised the possibility that
the term ???subculture??? in particular may have entirely outgrown
its usefulness. While the term ???counterculture??? has also
languished, there is no doubt that the sorts of social groups to
which these terms have historically referred are more extensive and
colourful than ever. Certainly this is the case in sport. Put
simply, all societies are replete with their own versions of
???Tribal Play??? which encompass and represent wider social
patterns, processes, and struggles.
This volume is a collection of 16 readings on aspects of
sub-community life in sport that showcases the breadth and depth of
sport subcultural research by a group of international scholars
representing varied theoretical and methodological orientations.
Some of the sport communities examined include soccer hooligans,
enduranceathletes, disabled athletes, environmentally conscious
surfers, and X-Games participants. This fourth volume in the
Research in the Sociology of Sport series is edited by two
sociologists whose academic training, research and teaching span
three of the subdisciplines in which the concepts of
???subculture??? and ???counterculture??? have been most avidly
used and critically tested (Criminology/Youth/Sport), and whose
???subcultural??? ventures both in sport and as sociologists are
extensive. Michael Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of
Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University in the UK,
and Kevin Young is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Calgary, Canada.
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