Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки (Nov 2022)
The semantic space of the youth subculture of football fans
Abstract
Background. The subculture of football fans is seen as a factor regulating social interactions within near-football youth groups. The meanings produced by this subculture orient the representatives of youth communities towards a certain evaluation of social objects. The purpose of this work is to analyze the peculiarities of the semantic content of the football fans subculture and their connection with the dominating type of culture and youth subcultural styles. Materials and methods. The methods are based on the phenomenological approach, which allows us to investigate the dominant meanings in the mechanism of constructing social reality by football fans. The findings are based on the results of the All- Russian sociological survey conducted by the Center of Sociology of Youth of the Institute of Socio-political Research – Branch of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Results. The most significant results are connected with the development and approbation of the theoretical-methodological approach to studying of the semantic content of the football fans subculture and trust in the mechanism of their selfregulation in the fan environment. Conclusions. The analysis of value orientations of football fans in relation to significant social objects has shown that in their view these orientations are considered in the context of a predominantly traditional system of values. The analysis of the relationship between different types of culture prevailing in contemporary Russian society and the life orientations of football fans indicates the existence of a relationship between the life orientations of football fans and the main types of basic culture. In addition, the correlations of football fans’ life orientations with those attitudes, which are represented in youth subcultures, were examined. The data obtained indicate that the correlations with the attitudes of youth subcultures are lower than those with the attitudes of the dominant culture type.
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