KNES 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Marching Band, Massillon, Ohio, Powder Puff
6 Dec 2017
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Having discussed sporting subcultures, we now turn to issues of community and community identity, and how they are manifest and experienced through engagement with. That is, we focus on how sport plays a role in constituting our various collective/communal identities. Subcultures aren"t anchored by place within you live spatial aspect isn"t in subculture. Within this topic we bring these two understandings together: community: a population living within a bounded space and sharing specific cultural practices through which communal identity is expressed. T nnies identified two types of social groupings/human association: Gemeinschaft: community , social groupings based on strong interpersonal relationships and commitments, and shared beliefs, customs, and places. Individuals committed to collective over personal interests: strong collective associations and institutions, pre industrial, being for one another, betterment of whole instead of personal advancements, people are grouped together and act as a group. Gesellschaft: society/civil society , social groupings only motivated by need to realize individual self- interests.
