To be a football supporter can today mean very different things depending om who you ask. It can mean anything from being a dedicated follower of a football team or maybe a troublemaker who enjoys fighting. It can archive great things and cause tremendous problems. This thesis will try to clear up what it means to be a supporter and how one become one. What being on an arena or on a supporter bus does to the individual in terms of acting and how the individual goes into a roll of being a supporter. I also bring up how media affect the supporter culture and how it, through its way of reporting about matches, create an exclusion of women in supporter culture. I have conducted an observation where I followed along on a supporter bus on its way to an away game. With this I have also done 5 interviews with supporters from the same team as the observation. With this empirical data that I have collected, I have used Erving Goffmans theory on frontstage and backstage in terms of getting an understanding on how the individual goes into a roll. The result shows how the scenery around the football game have an impact on how the individuals transform into the role of the supporter. How media affects this role and how it, though its way of reporting about football matches and supporters, create an exclusion of women.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-339494 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Thorell, August |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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