Learning to get drunk
The importance of drinking in Japanese university sports clubs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2378201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bennett Mcdonald (0000-0002-7455-0940, Victoria University, Australia), Brent Mcdonald, Kate Sylvester (0000-0002-5729-2388, Victoria University, Australia) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 331-345 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1012690213506584 |
| OpenAlex | W2081123947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper draws on two ethnographic research projects in Japanese university sports clubs to examine the role alcohol plays in the social and cultural education of students. Over the course of a four-year membership, the university sports club is a site where members learn to negotiate drinking. This negotiation is demonstrated by the range of strategies members employ when engaging in one of the many official drinking parties that punctuate the university sports club calendar. Knowing how to drink is seen as an important byproduct of being a member and this knowledge is acquired via the pedagogical relationships established between junior and senior members. On graduating university Japanese students are literally expected to become full members of society and it is the habitus related to social interaction (including drinking) rather than that related to sport, which has enduring capital. Alcohol plays a central role in many aspects of Japanese social interaction and the university sports club is a site par excellence for the training in and mastery of such skills
Club · Cultural capital · Ethnography · Excellence · Friendship · Habitus · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Physical education · Political science · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |