Sociological analysis of demands of Iranian football referees from the perspective of the pragmatic interpretive paradigm
Subject Areas : Sociological studies of sports
seyed majid khalili amin
1
,
Hasain Abolhasan Tanhaei
2
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Ami Masoud Amir Mazaheri
3
1 - Department of Cultural Sociology, Central Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - تهران مرکز
3 - واحد تهران مرکز
Keywords: football referees, demands, union,
Abstract :
Objective: Studies related to sports, especially football, have increased significantly in recent years due to its popularity and importance. However, referees play an important but neglected role in football. The purpose of this research is to investigate the demanding culture of football referees in Iran.
Methodology: qualitative research method; The research approach of interpretivism proposed by Blumer means Down to Earth and using the Grounded Theory that was founded by Strauss and Glaser has been used to get away from the complexities in the research and in the natural field with a structure Abduction study and induction way. The interviewees are 15 Iranian working and retired referees as well as Iranian union activists. Observations and direct experiences of the researcher, due to his 12-year activity in the trade union group of Referee, are considered as other sources of this research.
Results: From the extracted data, basic concepts and 16 sub-categories and 5 main categories were created by the researcher, which are: social construction, dynamics of social actions, worker-employer relations in demanding, awareness, Pragmatic Accounting.
Conclusion: Referees' demands as a collective behavior are affected by propositions that can be affected by categories that cause cohesion and lead to success in group demands. The relationship between the categories is two-way and mutual, and the quality and amount of impact of each of them can be analyzed with a dialectical view.
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