Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 102).

Thesis (M.S.)-- Springfield College, 2006. / Bibliography: leaves 111-120.

Thesis (M.S.)--Springfield College, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

This research aims to provide an accurate and more conceptually advanced view of football violence as practiced by Cardiff City fans both past and present, than the accepted views of football already available at an academic level. Expanding on work carried out at dissertation level, the research will attempt to provide a new model of football violence, and this will be constructed through the use of a variety of research methods to better understand football hooliganism as a socio-cultural phenomenon existing within the general field of football. Football as a field of activity will be discussed, as will the fact that whilst being a field of socio-cultural activity, professional football also has developed as a distinct market. The work aims to show why certain Cardiff City F.C. fans are not content to just watch their team participate, but who through a small leap of imagination cast themselves in the role of direct participant representing the team in the contest that is football hooliganism. Also to be discussed is why certain fans (usually at a formative age) would see those with a hooligan identity at Cardiff City F.C. as best representing their interests within the field, and who then go on to adopt a hooligan identity. The interests of Cardiff City fans within the field are explored, as are the specific set of social relations that have emerged. The emergence of the casuals as a socio-cultural category is examined as is media representations of them and in a reflexive manner the role of the police within the field is also examined. Finally the research aims to show how a group such as the Soul Crew, has by a combination of continued presence and growth within the field, gone on to become one of the dominant forces within the activity.

Thesis (MTech (Business Administration)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009 / Over the years, the history of football has been characterised by several incidents of violence and disasters. According to Helding et al. (2002:4) globally, since 1945, approximately 1,000 people are believed to have lost their lives and about 3,400 people have been injured in nearly 30 serious soccer stadium accidents. In 1989, English soccer witnessed a stampede that left around 96 people dead at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield during an FA cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham. Similar incidents in Africa occurred in Ghana in May 2001 when 126 supporters died after a stampede at Accra stadium at the end of a local league game. In South Africa, Ellis Park stadium witnessed a similar disaster on 11 April 2001, which left 43 people dead when soccer giants Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates clashed in a premier league soccer game. South Africa lost the bid to host the 2004 Olympic Games in Cape Town in favour of Athens and the 2006 FIFA World Cup to Germany as a result of perceived high crime rate. Whether perceived or real, issues of safety and security impact negatively on the image of a host nation. On the other hand, South Africa was selected to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup competition, despite a continued prevalence of high crime rates across the country. More effort from the Government is needed to guarantee adequate safety and security at soccer stadiums, training venues, and other areas used for public gatherings. Stakeholders that deal with safety and security, such as SAPS, Metro Police, Fire Brigade, and emergency medical services, should be deployed in such a way that they can respond quickly to emergency situations. A literature review has shown a close relationship between crime and event tourism. The crime mapping concept, which covers hot spot theory, routine activity, crime pattern approach and rational choice theory, helps in the understanding that some areas may be more affected by crime than others and that criminals' motivations can differ. Some of the most recent mega large-scale events used in the literature review includes: FIFA Soccer World Cup Competitions in Korea/Japan in 2002 and in Germany in 2006. This has provided guidance for South African organisers in terms of dealing with security issues. These examples have also provided a framework of reference on how to garner support and collaboration of national and international security agencies, which are relevant to the staging of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. The foundation of this research considers the employees views concerning safety, security and health in Cape Town. It is envisioned that these ideas can strengthen future management decisions with regard to preparing safety, security and emergency services for major events such as the 2010 Soccer World Cup. This should not only involve taking note of security staff ideas, but also incorporating them into the grand national safety and security strategy and ensuring the full implementation of the security strategy at ground-level.

Thesis (DTech(Design)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009 / Universal Design (UD), as it is known in the USA and elsewhere, is an inclusive approach to designing for the broader population and is rapidly gaining popularity amongst design practitioners and planners globally. Similar non-exclusive approaches have evolved in diverse parts of the world to counter the systemic disablement and exclusion of vulnerable/special populations of users perpetuated by traditional approaches to design. The transdisciplinary field of UD is informed by concilience in accommodating a wide range of related fields, such as education, landscape architecture, architecture, town and regional planning, industrial/product/three-dimensional design, furniture design, interior design, communication/information/graphic design, interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI)/usability studies, and ergonomics/human factors engineering. UD proposes a collaborative systems approach that benefits from the synergies of cross-functionalism by approaching the diverse challenges facing society through socially responsible design. In so doing, UD can potentially impact such diverse issues as health, transportation, inclusive education, sports and recreation, entertainment, social welfare, inclusive employment, transgenerational/lifespan housing, inclusive tourism, accessibility, safety, and ecological concerns on sustainability.

Orientador: Antonio Carlos de Moraes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T14:49:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vendite_CarolineColucio_M.pdf: 392516 bytes, checksum: ce39e54c29bfe4e384ec42066bc3d9d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Nos bastidores do futebol existe uma controvérsia entre os universos do conhecimento prático e os teóricos. O técnico de futebol e o jornalista esportivo, às vezes cada um têm uma visão diferente para o mesmo tópico: sistema de jogo, tática de jogo e estratégia de jogo e compreender o que se entende pelos temas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar o que estes profissionais pensam com relação ao mesmo assunto e, estabelecer uma relação que propicie uniformidade de discussão, o que poderá levar à nova visão tática para o desenvolvimento do jogo de futebol. Além disso, o trabalho pode estar contribuindo para que os formadores de opinião, através da imprensa escrita e falada, possam estar refletindo com veracidade o que acontece dentro deste esporte. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido através de entrevistas gravadas com técnicos e cronistas / jornalistas esportivos, abordando o conteúdo, sistema, estratégia e tática de jogo. Participaram do estudo 11 técnicos / treinadores e oito cronistas / jornalistas esportivos. Os técnicos entrevistados dirigiam equipes que estavam disputando o Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol de 2004 (Série A), e os jornalistas são de diversos meios de comunicação, sendo como critério de inclusão estar atuando como comentarista de futebol. Dentre as questões abordadas houve uma diferença nos termos e conceitos usados, confundindo-se sistema de jogo com tática de jogo e tática de jogo com estratégia de jogo. A maioria dos treinadores definiu sistema de jogo de forma semelhante e alguns definiram como tática de jogo; o conceito de tática de jogo foi definido como o comportamento dos jogadores dentro do campo; alguns treinadores definiram tática de jogo como sistema de jogo; o conceito estratégia de jogo entre os treinadores é o mesmo que tática só que com bola parada, ou seja, as ações provenientes de uma bola parada para surpreender o adversário. Alguns treinadores colocam que tática de jogo é o sistema de jogo que irá utilizar. Nas respostas dos jornalistas / cronistas ficou claro que não sabem definir muito bem o que é sistema de jogo, confundindo com tática e ainda cria uma nomenclatura 4-4-3; a tática de jogo foi confundida com estratégia de jogo e vice-versa / Mestrado / Mestre em Educação Física

Orientadores: Heloisa Helena Baldy dos Reis, Carmen Lúcia Soares / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T15:04:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Canale_VitordosSantos_M.pdf: 959423 bytes, checksum: 3da3c00994af221fffa44986b5a30ca3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação é fruto de uma pesquisa sobre as coletividades torcedoras ao longo do século XX no Brasil e suas relações com a violência nos distintos períodos deste século, momento de afirmação e disseminação do futebol no país. O objetivo desta dissertação é traçar, a partir de uma retomada histórica dos coletivos de torcedores, a gênese de um modelo hegemônico de torcida organizada, fundado pelos Gaviões da Fiel, que influenciou a existência de outras torcidas em São Paulo e pelo Brasil. A partir de marcos das formas coletivas de torcer, como os sócios dos clubes das capitais paulistas e cariocas das primeiras décadas do século, torcidas uniformizadas e organizadas em São Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro entre as décadas de 1940 e 1960 e o nascimento e disseminação entre os jovens das torcidas organizadas até 1995, ano da tragédia do Pacaembu, enfrentamento entre torcedores de Palmeiras e São Paulo no estádio paulistano, acontecimento marcante nos estudos sobre violência relacionada ao futebol, são observáveis os caminhos de uma lógica e normativa torcedora, fundamentada no clubismo e em outras representações internas e externas ao futebol, caras aos jovens torcedores. Assim, as rivalidades e a violência relacionadas ao futebol são questões que abarcam além do esporte em si, dialogando com as relações de cor e de classe, com os embates entre diferentes grupos dentro das metrópoles, somados à necessidade de exercer socialmente condutas impostas pela masculinidade, bem como o desejo do torcedor de participar enquanto agente ativo do espetáculo do futebol, buscando o reconhecimento e o papel central das torcidas no esporte, seja pela festa ou pela violência. A metodologia e fontes utilizadas foram revisão bibliográfica sobre violência no esporte e torcidas, notícias jornalísticas tratadas enquanto fontes primárias, entrevistas com membros da torcida organizada Gaviões da Fiel, acrescidas de observações de campo nos Gaviões da Fiel e em sua dissidência, o Movimento Rua São Jorge / Abstract: This dissertation is the result of a survey of football supporter groups throughout the twentieth century in Brazil, concerned with their relations to violence in different periods of this century, a time of affirmation and dissemination of football in the country. The aim is to show how contemporary forms of collective organizations of fans own their current constitution to earlier ones, detaching the football supporter groups and their younger fans from a wave of violent self-genesis. Starting from landmarks of collective forms of supporting, such as club membership in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the early decades of the century, uniformed and organized supporter groups in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro between the 1940s and 1960s, and the birth and spread of young supporters and young supporting groups until 1995, year of the tragedy in the Pacaembu stadium, it can be observed that supporting is an activity with its own logic and normative rules. These are specially based on "clubism" and other internal and external representations to football, dear to the young fans. Thus, rivalries and violence are related to matters spanning beyond the sport itself, dialoguing with the relations of color and class, the clashes between different groups within the metropolis, the need to exercise social behavior imposed by masculinity and the desire to participate as an active agent of the spectacle of football, seeking recognition and the role of central supporters in sports, either by cheering or by violence. The methodology and sources used were a literature review on violence in sport and supporting groups, primary sources, interviews with members of the "Gaviões da Fiel" supporting group, and field observations of the "Gaviões" in its dissenting group, the "Movimento Rua São Jorge" / Mestrado / Educação Fisica e Sociedade / Mestre em Educação Física

Using data from the 2014-2016 Major League Soccer (MLS) seasons, this paper finds evidence for nationality discrimination in the MLS. In particular, foreign players receive a wage premium of 15.97 percent, ceteris paribus. Foreign players also receive an additional bump in their salary based on performance. Finally, using an Oaxaca (1973) decomposition, I find that 22-26% of the differences in wages between foreign and domestic players is largely due to discrimination.