Football Hooliganism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Williams (0000-0003-3173-6048, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosf060.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4320075874 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Football hooliganism” is a slippery term which covers many types of deviant fan behavior, from individual frustration‐based forms of mild aggression to planned collective violence. It is generally accepted that the collective activity of organized male football hooligan groups is primarily targeted at identifiable rival peers, though the police can also be targets and other fans might get caught up in its wake. Theories divide on the likely causes of hooliganism, from sociopsychological explanations around crowd contagion, team overidentification, or frustration, to sociological and socioanthropological approaches, which focus more on the deeper sociocultural roots of collective fan behavior, and on the complex motivations of those younger men who are routinely involved in violent and aggressive honor contests around football. Using his “socio‐ecological model,” the Dutch sociologist Ramon Spaaij has recently tried to resolve some disciplinary differences and key debates around the binaries of aggression and violence, order and disorder, structure and action, and spontaneity and planned attacks in football fan conflict. As a response to hooliganism, elite European football stadia today are increasingly becoming rational, safe, and rather tame sporting landscapes, the antitheses of democratic spaces of open access, excitement, and freedom
Aggression · Collective action · Criminology · Democracy · Elite · Football · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |