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'It's Only Sport'-The Symbolic Neutralization of 'Violence'
- Source :
- Symbolic Interaction. 39:557-576
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2016.
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Abstract
- Within the commodified world of professional ice hockey, athletes sell their bodily performances in return for a salary. A central feature of this transaction is the very real risk of physical injury – a risk inherent within most contact sports, but particularly so within those that feature seemingly ‘violent’ confrontations between competitors, as ice hockey is widely reputed to do. Yet within the spectacle of sport, where physicality can be constructed as playful and unserious, it is possible for the consequences of such action to be concealed behind a symbolic, ludic veneer. Within this paper we explore this process with a particular focus on ice hockey spectators, for whom notions of sport violence as in some important way ‘mimetic’ of the ‘real’ enabled their propensity to both enjoy, and find moral validation through, potentially deleterious behaviours among athletes.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
biology
Commodification
Athletes
Communication
05 social sciences
Spectacle
General Social Sciences
030229 sport sciences
biology.organism_classification
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Ice hockey
0302 clinical medicine
Action (philosophy)
0502 economics and business
The Symbolic
Salary
Psychology
Database transaction
Social psychology
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
General Nursing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01956086
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Symbolic Interaction
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....730a70333b4baec4a746b1c7d65171b6