Journal•ISSN: 0193-7235
Journal of Sport & Social Issues
SAGE Publishing
About: Journal of Sport & Social Issues is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Sociology of sport & Football. It has an ISSN identifier of 0193-7235. Over the lifetime, 917 publications have been published receiving 31582 citations. The journal is also known as: JSSI & Journal of sport & social issues.
Topics: Sociology of sport, Football, Athletes, Poison control, Politics
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TL;DR: The factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs. However, these factor...
721 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of hypercommodification on forms of spectator identification with top professional football clubs and proposed four ideal types of spectator identity: supporters, followers, fans, and flâneurs.
Abstract: World football (or soccer) has undergone an intensive hypercommodification over the past decade or so. This article examines the impact of this process on forms of spectator identification with top professional football clubs. Drawing upon previous analyses by Taylor and Critcher (on football) and the theories of Bryan Turner (on body culture), the article advances four ideal types of spectator identity: supporters, followers, fans, and flâneurs. The broad trend in sports identification is away from the supporter model (with its hot, traditional identification with local clubs) and toward the more detached, cool, consumer-orientated identification of the flâneur.
585 citations
TL;DR: The authors showed that people are capable of strategic self-presentation; they decrease the distance between themselves and successful groups with which they have only the most triples of triples in their presentation.
Abstract: Previous research has demonstrated that people are capable of strategic self-presentation; they decrease the distance between themselves and successful groups with which they have only the most tri...
584 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that traditional social and community ties have declined as a result of increased geographic mobility, industrialization, and the like, while sports spectatorship has continued to flourish.
Abstract: As a result of increased geographic mobility, industrialization, and the like, traditional social and community ties have declined. Conversely, sports spectatorship has continued to flourish. We ar...
489 citations
TL;DR: There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport's assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it as mentioned in this paper. But sport participation does not always contribute to the development of children.
Abstract: There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport’s assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it. Prom...
467 citations