2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Sport-Cheering Culture - Private Fan Clubs and Booster Clubs of Professional Baseball Teams -
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14580033
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
体育学
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| Research Institution | Nara University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAHASHI Hidesato Nara University of Education, faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (40206834)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2005
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| Keywords | sport / cheering / private fan club / booster club / fan / professional baseball / subculture |
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| Research Abstract |
In Japanese professional baseball, there are private fan clubs and booster clubs that are voluntary associations for cheering. They are generated from mass sports fans that the sporting events have produced in modern society. The purpose of this study is to clarify how "The National League of Hiroshima Toyo Carp Private Fan Clubs" and "Kinki Carp Booster Club" were formed and maintained. The data were collected through participant observation with a private fan club of "Kobe Cyuou Kai." In conclusion,
1.The social resources of private fan clubs are demo-commitment in the stadium and closeness with baseball team and player, and "flag-waving" and "lead" that are the typical cheering behaviors in the stadiums serve the function of symbolizing social power of the fan clubs ritualistically. And furthermore, bureaucracy and yakuza's quasi-family institution are adopted into these their distinctive pattern of action and value standard. The former is dominant culture taken from main stream in modern society, and the latter is parent culture located lower in the society. We can see the multi strata of fan clubs' subculture. It illustrates that subculture of private fan clubs is created by domesticating bureaucracy and quasi-family institution to their own values standard and pattern of act about cheering.
2.The creation of the Kinki Hiroshima Booster Club can be traced back to a fellowship which is shared by people who had moved from Hiroshima to urban areas in the Kinki District during the postwar economic growth period. They wanted to affirm an important reality in their life by making this team's first championship victory in 1975 an extension of their personal experience of leaving Hiroshima to work in Osaka. The dream of such a victory was not a personal but a communal ideal that was shared by people from the same province.
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