The Study of Sport Vandalism Actions (Violence): during 2012-2022

Subject Areas : Sport Sciences Quarterly

Tahereh jahanp ¹ (PhD student in Cultural Sociology Faculty of Social sciences, Communication & Media of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Markaz)
taha ashayeri ² (عضو هیئت علمی گروه جامعه شناسی دانشگاه کاشان)

Received: 2023-05-11 Accepted : 2023-05-11 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Social field, Sport subculture, Vandalism behavior, Ethno-linguistic belonging,

Abstract :

Sport is a social action that has become popular in today's world as a leisure style and has political, economic, cultural and social effects. Sport reproduces violence and vandalistic behaviors due to its relationship with society, group, reference patterns, as well as its stress with social-cultural issues. Iranian society has a special interest in sports and keeps its leisure style alive with it. In the meantime, sometimes violence and vandalistic behaviors are also observed among fans of sports teams. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to investigate the actions of sport vandalism from 2010 to 2022. The research method is meta-analysis, the study tool includes research published in SID, Noormags and Magiran during the period of 2010-2022. 39 statistical populations and 21 sample sizes were selected by deliberate-judgmental (non-probability) sampling method. The results showed that social deprivation, disintegrated family and media stimulation (high effect size), cultural capital, team-ethnic social bias, feeling of anomalies, ethnic-team cohesion, differential co-operation and social failure (moderate effect size) and informal supervision, mass media performance, social dissatisfaction, belonging to ethnic subculture, history of criminal behavior, official supervision and economic capital (low effect size) have a significant effect on sports violence.