Tolerance Rules

Identity, Resistance, and Negotiation in an Inner City Recreation/Drop-In Center

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2348853
AutoresBrian Wilson (0000-0002-5237-4771, School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia), Philip White (0000-0001-6087-8286, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Año2001
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas73-103
Fecha de publicación2001-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723501251006
OpenAlexW2084178338
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas43

For many youth, the recreation/drop-in center is a nonthreatening, relatively unstructured place to play sports and hang out in an otherwise high-risk urban area. Although numerous studies have shown a positive relationship between these recreation programs and risk reduction for youth, little work has addressed the creative ways that youth negotiate these surroundings. Drawing on cultural studies and interactionist approaches to youth that focus on the many levels of everyday experience and relations, this article reports findings from an ethnographic study of a center in a low-income area in urban southern Ontario. The research shows how youth in this drop-in center context maintained an informal culture of nonviolence by creating a set of 'tolerance' rules that allowed diverse groups to coexist in a limited social space. Issues surrounding resistance were also evident in this study. On one hand, youth living in a marginalized area were resistant to the dominant negative influences that exist outside the center. On the other hand, by creating their own informal culture within the center, the youth took power in an organization otherwise dominated (administratively) by adults. These findings inform theory surrounding the lived experiences of youth while addressing issues of resistance that are central to mainstream work on youth culture

Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Geography · Mainstream · Negotiation · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Recreation · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Youth Development and Social Support