Boos, Bans, and other Backlash: The Consequences of Being an Activist Athlete
Boos, Bans, and other Backlash: The Consequences of Being an Activist Athlete
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嘘声、禁令和其他强烈反对：作为一名激进运动员的后果
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10.1177/016059760803200302
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2008
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P. Kaufman
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作者：
P. Kaufman
今天的运动员经常因为他们的异常和越轨行为而受到批评;然而，当积极的运动员通过促进社会和政治正义而正直和真诚地行事时，他们经常面临充满仇恨的蔑视和蔑视的反弹。在本文中，我探讨了作为一个积极的运动员的负面影响。使用深入的访谈数据和次要帐户，我研究的反应，运动员从事社会或政治抗议。我特别关注那些抗议战争、血汗工厂劳工和种族主义的运动员。对运动员的研究对社会学家来说很重要，原因有很多：它突出了从社会学角度分析体育的重要性，它明确了体育与政治之间的联系，它确定了运动员抗议活动的一些个人后果，它有可能重塑我们对体育作为进步社会变革工具的理解。
Athletes today are often criticized for their aberrant and deviant behavior; however, when activist athletes act with integrity and sincerity by promoting social and political justice, they often face a hate-filled backlash of scorn and contempt. In this paper I explore the negative consequences of being an activist athlete. Using in-depth interview data and secondary accounts, I examine reactions to athletes who engaged in social or political protest. I focus specifically on athletes who have protested against war, sweatshop labor, and racism. The study of activist athletes is important to sociologists for a number of reasons: It highlights the significance of analyzing sport sociologically, it makes explicit the connection between sport and politics, it identifies some of the personal consequences to activists as a result of their protests, and it has the potential to reshape our understanding of sport as a vehicle for progressive social change.