Soccer Fields of Cultural [Re]Production: Creating “Good Boys” in Suburban America

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Dominant Class ◽  
Youth Soccer ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Soccer Fields

Zwick and Andrews (1999) argued that suburban American soccer fields merit critical academic attention because they highlight the practices of a dominant class. To gain an understanding of this specific field of power and privilege, I employed a multifaceted ethnographic approach to studying a group of upper-middle-class mothers whose children played youth soccer. I used Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984, 1993) sociological theories regarding the interplay between habitus and capital to analyze how the mothers shaped their sons’ youth sport experience to reproduce class status and social advantage in the next generation.

scholarly journals Arisan Thalia: Gaya Hidup Para Sosialita Jember (Thalia Social Gathering: The Lifestyle of Jember Sociality)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Ita Purnamsari ◽  
Jati Arifiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Impulse Buying ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Upper Middle Class

Thalia social gathering is the first upper-middle-class social gathering group in the Jember district. Their motivation for participating in social gathering activities is to expand social networks, add friends, and build symbols of self-existence. As members of the upper-middle-class social gathering, members of the Thalia group are very concerned about their appearance and fashion. They maintain their self-image and social class by using branded goods. The study wants to describe and analyze the meaning of social gathering activities as a lifestyle for socialites in Jember. This study uses a qualitative method with an ethnographic approach. The technique for determining informants is purposive sampling. This research found that the fulfillment of fashion needs sometimes makes them trapped in impulse buying, which causes them to be unable to put the brakes on shopping habits. It makes them trapped in a hedonic and wasteful lifestyle.   Keywords: A Social Gathering, Jember Upper Middle Class, Fashion, Lifestyle, Hedonism. Arisan Thalia merupakan kelompok arisan kelas menengah atas pertama di Kabupaten Jember. Motivasi mereka untuk mengikuti kegiatan arisan yaitu untuk memperluas jaringan sosial, menambah teman dan membangun simbol eksistensi diri. Sebagai anggota arisan kelas menengah atas, para anggota kelompok Thalia sangat memperhatikan penampilan diri dan fashion yang dikenakan. Mereka menjaga citra diri dan kelas sosial mereka dengan menggunakan barang bermerek. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis makna kegiatan social gathering sebagai gaya hidup para sosialita di Jember. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi. Teknik penentuan informan adalah purposive sampling. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa adanya pemenuhan atas kebutuhan fashion terkadang membuat mereka terjebak dalam impulse buying yang menyebabkan mereka tidak dapat mengerem kebiasaan berbelanja. Hal ini membuat mereka terjebak dalam sebuah gaya hidup hedonis dan konsumtif.   Kata Kunci: Arisan, Kelas Menengah Atas Jember, Fashion, Gaya Hidup,  Hedonisme. Daftar Pustaka Buku: Wahyunto. 2011. Masyarakat Konsumsi. Cetakan Keempat. Yogyakarta: Kreasi Wacana.   Nurani. 2003. Lifestyles: Sebuah Pengantar Komprehensif. Yogyakarta: Jalasutra.   Ritzer, G., dan D. P. Goodman. 2004. Teori Sosiologi Modern. Jakarta: Kencana. Spradley, J.P. 2006. Metode Etnografi (Terjemahan oleh        Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth) Yogyakarta: Tiara Wacana.   Sugiyono. 2006. Metode Penelitian Kuantitatif Kualitatif       dan R&D. Bandung: Afabeta. Suyanto, B.   (2013). Sosiologi Ekonomi: Kapitalisme dan Konsumsi di Era Mayarakat Post-Modernisme. Jakarta: Kencana. Jurnal: Haryono, C.S. 2017. Kontestasi Simbol Kesuksesan Kaum Urban Jakarta Dalam Ruang Liminal Arisan Keluarga. Jurnal Scriptura. Vol 7:1,  27-35. Hendarningrum, R., dan M. E. Susilo. 2008. Fashion dan Gaya Hidup: Identitas dan komunikasi. Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi. Vol 6:2, 25-32. Website: http://www.jemberkab.go.id/tmiterapung/, diakses pada 21 April 2019 https://www.liputan6.com/lifestyle/rea d/2431347/valentine-cintadan-warna-pink, diakses pada 10 Mei 2019  

The Right to Dream: Gender, Modernity, and the Problem of Class in Kate O'Brien's Bourgeois Bildungsromane

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Naoise Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aristocratic Culture ◽  
Modern Form

Feminist critics have celebrated Kate O'Brien's pioneering approach to gender and sexuality, yet there has been little exploration of her innovations of the coming-of-age narrative. Creating a modern Irish reworking of the Bildungsroman, O'Brien's heroines represent an idealized model of female identity-formation which stands in sharp contrast to the nationalist state's vision of Irish womanhood. Using Franco Moretti's theory of the Bildungsroman, a framing of the genre as a thoroughly ‘modern’ form of the novel, this article applies a critical Marxist lens to O'Brien's output. This reading brings to light the ways in which the limitations of the Bildungsroman work to constrain O'Brien's subversive politics. Their middle-class status remains an integral part of the identity of her heroines, informing the forms of liberation they seek. Fundamentally, O'Brien's idealization of aristocratic culture, elitist exceptionalism and ‘detachment of spirit’ restricts the emancipatory potential of her vision of Irish womanhood.

Privilege Accumulation Among Upper Middle-Class Youth in Mexico

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minor Mora-Salas ◽  
Orlandina de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Mexican Families ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Class Background ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Class Youth

This chapter demonstrates how upper middle-class Mexican families mobilize a vast array of social, cultural, and economic resources to expand their children’s opportunities in life and ensure the intergenerational transmission of their social position. The authors analyze salient characteristics of families’ socioeconomic and demographics in the life histories of a group of young Mexicans from an upper middle-class background. Many believe that micro-social processes, especially surrounding education, are key to understanding how upper-class families mobilize their various resources to shape their children’s life trajectories. These families accumulate social advantages over time that accrue to their progeny and benefit them upon their entrance to the labor market.

scholarly journals Parent Coaches’ Experiences and Insights into a Youth Soccer Program

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kerins ◽  
Mariela Fernandez ◽  
Kimberly Shinew
Keyword(s):  
Youth Sport ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Youth Soccer ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sport Programs ◽  
Volunteer Coaches ◽  
Sport Coaches ◽  
Purposive Sample

Municipal governments continue to struggle with decreased funding. In order to offset depleting funds, agencies rely on volunteers to provide resources to the public. In youth sport programs, parents provide much of the support, and it is estimated that 90% of youth sport coaches are parents. Given that parents have been instrumental in youth sport programs, the purpose of this study was to understand parents’ experiences and insights associated with volunteering by using a youth soccer program located in a mid-sized town in Illinois as a case-study. Specifically, the study examined (a) parents’ motivations in volunteering, (b) challenges parent coaches faced while volunteering, and (c) parent coaches’ recommendations to agency personnel. Using a purposive sample, 11 parents were interviewed. Findings indicated that parents were motivated to volunteer in order to help their child, and several expressed a more in-depth philosophy about giving back to the community. The primary motivation and benefit for volunteer coaches was their relationships with the children. Relationships with other adults in the program were also significant, but they tended to be secondary. Challenges in volunteering included working with the children, parents, and agency staff. Agency recommendations included providing incentives to coaches, conducting player assessments, ensuring that recruited volunteers share the agency’s philosophy, and addressing volunteer concerns.

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