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Putting the Blessings on him”

Vouching and Basketball Status Work

Bibliographic Data

ID9759855
AuthorsScott N Brooks (0000-0002-8596-1243, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume595
Issue1
Pages80-90
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716204266593
OpenAlexW2152614361
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

While being a basketball player is an important identity for kids, it is also an abiding interest for some black men in Philadelphia. Identity is a collective action, created through group interaction and made public through interaction in which friends “vouch” for each other. The criteria for social position and having high social status do not always transfer across social spaces; rather, the space and those who interact in it negotiate and determine which social traits are salient and of high status. This article examines two different types of basketball identity or status—direct and borrowed identity—and explores the way in which those identities are created and used in negotiating group membership and social interaction

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Basketball · Collective identity · Identity (music · Identity negotiation · Linguistics · Negotiation · Political science · Salient · Social group · Social identity theory · Social position · Social relation · Social science · Social space · Social status · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Gender Studies · History · Law · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,14
Citation span2012 - 2017 (6)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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