From 2016 to 2018, we conducted ethnographic research on young members of the ultras group White Stones in Varaždin. We analysed the social activism of this group as related to the ‘AMF’ club NK ...Varteks in order to affirm how members of White Stones view their club as opposed to similar examples in Europe, as well as to determine whether this group of youth are stigmatised. As opposed to the European context, opposition to the commercialisation of football is present implicitly in their case, while opposition to crime and corruption are the key causes of this group’s social activism. They feel as if they belong to the 'AMF' movement, and stigmatisation is partially present.
Conducted researches recognize various risk factors, as well as protective factors against doping behaviour in different sports i.e. sports disciplines or activities. The main goal of this research ...was to identify the correlation between selected socio-demographic, health-related, and sports-related predictors with doping factors in three different types of sports, which are (1) highly energetic demanding sports (weightlifting), (2) highly technical demanding sports (racquet sports), and (3) highly tactical demanding sports (sailing). The research consisted of three separate studies, each one of them researching one of the sports. The sample of subjects included altogether 293 athletes, senior level competitors (older than 18years of age). In total, the sample comprised three homogenous sub-samples, as follows: athletes in highly energetic demanding sports (weightlifters and power lifters; N=27), athletes in highly technical demanding sports (table tennis, tennis and badminton players; N=188), and athletes in highly tactical demanding sports (sailing; N=78). The first study involved weightlifters where we should point out the existence of high doping behaviour In this study, religiousness was interpreted as the most significant protective factor against doping behaviour, while sports factors are not found to be significantly related to doping. The study involving racquet sport athletes suggests a high risk of doping behaviour among those athletes who observe doping behaviour in their sport. We noticed low levels of athletes' trust in their coaches' and physicians' opinions on doping issues. This is an issue which should be researched in the future, because the underlying cause has not been studied as yet. Briefly, it seems that either the athletes are not convinced of their coaches '/physicians' expertise regarding doping issues, and/or they do not believe in their good intentions. It is particularly important, as the previous research has shown that with the increased trust in coaches and physicians, the chance that an athlete will use doping decreases. As expected, it is characteristic for sailing that it has a low likelihood of potential doping behaviour, although the consumption of dietary supplements is high. Substance abuse in sports spreads beyond those that enhance athletic performance. All of these issues should be studied in more detail in the future and, if appropriately validated, incorporated into anti-doping intervention programs.
U ovom radu istražujemo kako srednjoškolci u Hrvatskoj razumiju i doživljavaju svoj kulturni identitet te koji su oblici njihove kulturne participacije. U sklopu međunarodnog projekta CHIEF u ...Hrvatskoj je provedeno kvalitativno istraživanje kojim smo obuhvatili učenike drugih razreda triju srednjih škola, jedne u velikom gradu, druge u manjem urbanom središtu i treće u ruralnom području. Pritom su provedeni polustrukturirani intervjui sa 60 učenika (po dvadeset iz svake škole) i devetero nastavnika (po troje iz svake škole). U sklopu projekta provedeno je i anketno istraživanje u 28 srednjih škola na više od 2000 učenika. Kvalitativni nalazi, potkrijepljeni nalazima anketnog istraživanja, pokazuju da se mladi ponajprije identificiraju kroz obrasce mjesta, regije i nacije pa tek onda kroz obrasce Europe i čovječanstva. Razlike između urbanih i ruralnih sredina nisu se pokazale presudnima za različitost stavova i oblika kulturne participacije mladih. Važnija se čini izloženost multikulturnom iskustvu uz ekonomsku dimenziju uže regije koja je u nekim slučajevima utjecala na značenje koje mladi pridaju etničkoj različitosti u vlastitoj sredini. S obzirom na visoko mjesto koje pripada glazbi na ljestvici najčešćih oblika kulturne participacije mladih prema rezultatima anketnog istraživanja, važan je nalaz kvalitativnog dijela istraživanja koji ukazuje na dominaciju stilova u vezi s popularnom glazbom zvanom „cajka" neovisno o stupnju urbanizacije (veliki grad naspram ruralne sredine).
Memory is not something given or fixed, it is specific process which includes various definitions and re-definitions, interpretations and re-interpretations. Cultural memory could change through time ...and space; production of cultural memory depends also on various social actors. Starting from such position we wish to present main discourses and types of changes in interpretations of 102 years long history of Croatian football club Hajduk from the city of Split. Rogić (2000) divided contemporary Croatian history in three most important phases – 'primitive capitalist modernization' (from 1868. To 1945.), 'totalitarian socialist modernization' (from 1945. to 1990.) and 'transition' (from 1990. till today). In similar manner, we should divide history of Hajduk in three key phases: from 1911. when the club was founded to the end of the WW2. Second phase is marked by the Yugoslav period, from 1945. to 1990. The third phase starts with the independent Croatian state and the foundation of Croatian football league (1992). The presidents of the club and whole management, in all three periods, belonged to the local and national political/economical elite. Political elites were most influential social actors, shaping and changing interpretations of the past, in this case it means shaping relation to symbols and history of the club itself. The direction of those changes is linked to dominant discourses of particular social periods. While emphasis on Croatian identity of the club was silenced in the Yugoslav period, in the recent period of Croatian state, the anti-fascist component of the identity of the club is mostly forgotten or denied. Our thesis is based on the qualitative analyses of official books and monographs on the history of the club, with our focus on permitted and forbidden stories.
UDK: 316.723-053.6(497.5):78.036Punk Izvorni znanstveni rad Primljeno: 14. 9. 2013. Socioloska istrazivanja na podrucju supkulture mladih u svijetu traju dulje od pola stoljeca, a zadnjih dvadesetak ...godina dio istrazivaca dijeli se na "supkulturaliste" i "postsupkulturaliste", u skladu s interpretacijama istrazivackih spoznaja u novijem drustvenom kontekstu. Kljucne teze iz oba tabora odnose se na drustvenu klasu, na veze izmedu glazbenog ukusa, stila i identiteta, na granice izmedu stilova, na ulogu medija u nastajanju i odrzavanju supkulturnih stilova. S obzirom na nedavno zavrseno istrazivanje punk-scene u Hrvatskoj, istrazivacke spoznaje dovode se u vezu sa suvremenim okvirom rasprave. Drustvena klasa, u nasem kontekstu, predstavlja vaznu dimenziju nastajanja supkulture, premda je nitko od domacih autora ne smatra deterministickom kategorijom u smislu supkulturalisticke teorijske tradicije. Veze izmedu glazbenog ukusa, stila i identiteta, za koje postsupkulturalisti tvrde da nestaju, u nasem su istrazivanju cvrste, vidljive i snazno prisutne. Takoder, teze postsupkulturalista o propusnim i fluidnim oblicima okupljanja ne nalaze svoje mjesto u istrazivackim nalazima o punk-sceni u Hrvatskoj, jer je u nasem slucaju rijec o cvrstim i jasnim oblicima pripadnosti bez velike fluktuacije na relaciji jezgra siri krug simpatizera. Teorijske implikacije naseg istrazivanja upucuju na potrebu prevladavanja i odbacivanja stroge podjele na supkulturaliste i postsupkulturaliste na ovom podrucju. Kljucne rijeci: supkultura, postsupkulturalisti, punk
Sociological researches in the field of youth subculture worldwide have lasted longer than half a century, and in the last twenty years, part of the researchers have been divided into ...'subculturalists' and 'postsubculturalists', according to the interpretation of research notions in the recent social context. The key theses of both ingroups are related to social class, the relationships among musical taste, style and identity, to the boundaries between styles and to the role of media in the emergence and maintenance of subcultural styles. Considering the recently completed study of the punk scene in Croatia, the research notions are brought into connection with the contemporary framework of the debate. In the Croatian context, social class is an important dimension of the emergence of subculture, although none of the local authors considers it a determining category in terms of the subcultural theoretical tradition. The connections among musical taste, style and identity, which postsubculturalists claim are disappearing, were solidly, visibly and powerfully present in our research. Also, the postsubculturalists1 thesis of permeable and fluid forms of gathering do not find their place in the research findings on the punk scene in Croatia, because in our case, there are firm and clear forms of belonging without large fluctuations in the relation between the core and the expanded circle of sympathizers. Theoretical implications of our research point to the need to overcome and to reject the division to subculturalists and postsubculturalists in this field. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT Reprinted by permission of Drustvena Istrazivanja
The aim of this paper was to re-introduce the issue of football supporters in Croatia, after two decades of absence from sociological field research, in four steps: first, by giving a brief ...explanation of the changes in Croatian society, secondly, by giving a brief overview of changes in modern football, thirdly, by describing the theoretical and methodological framework of Croatian research done in the past as well as by describing the contemporary theoretical context in which our research has been performed, and finally, by presenting the preliminary results of our ongoing research within the FP7 MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement) project. Croatian society passed through the painful process of war and transition, and football supporters strengthened their role as social actors particularly regarding their own formal structure which was not imaginable in a one-party system, as well as regarding social actions like protests, boycotts, demonstrations, petitions and other forms of resistance to the local and national political-economic elites of the new consumer society. Key words: social changes, modern football, ultras, ethnography, Croatia, Torcida Cilj je ovog rada obnoviti sociolosku raspravu o problemu nogometnih navijaca u Hrvatskoj nakon dva desetljeca nepostojanja terenskih istrazivanja, i to u cetiri koraka: prvo, objasnjavanjem promjena u hrvatskom drustvu; drugo, kratkim pregledom pro mjena u modernom nogometu; trece, opisom teorijskog i metodoloskog okvira hrvatskih istrazivanja provedenih u proslosti i opisivanjem suvremenog teorijskoga konteksta u kojemu se odvijalo nase vlastito istrazivanje; cetvrto, predstavljanjem preliminarnih rezultata naseg istrazivanja koje je provedeno unutar projekta FP7 MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement). Hrvatsko drustvo proslo je kroz bolan proces rata i tranzicije, a nogometni navijaci ojacali su svoju ulogu drustvenih aktera, posebno u svjetlu vlastite formalne organiziranosti, nezamislive u jednopartijskom sustavu, i s obzirom na vlastite drustvene akcije poput protesta, bojkota, demonstracija, peticija i drugih oblika otpora lokalnim i nacionalnim politicko-ekonomskim elitama novog potrosackog drustva. Kljucne rijeci: drustvene promjene, moderni nogomet, ultras, etnografija, Hrvatska, Torcida
Cilj je ovog rada obnoviti sociološku raspravu o problemu nogometnih navijača u Hrvatskoj nakon dva desetljeća nepostojanja terenskih istraživanja, i to u četiri koraka: prvo, objašnjavanjem promjena ...u hrvatskom društvu; drugo, davanjem kratkog pregleda promjena u modernom nogometu; treće, opisom teorijskog i metodološkog okvira hrvatskih istraživanja provedenih u prošlosti i opisivanjem suvremenog teorijskoga konteksta u kojemu se odvijalo naše vlastito istraživanje; četvrto, predstavljanjem preliminarnih rezultata našeg istraživanja
koje je provedeno unutar projekta FP7 MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement). Hrvatsko društvo prošlo je kroz bolan proces rata i tranzicije, a nogometni navijači ojačali su svoju ulogu društvenih aktera, posebno u svjetlu vlastite formalne organiziranosti, nezamislive u jednopartijskom sustavu, i s obzirom na vlastite društvene akcije poput protesta, bojkota, demonstracija, peticija i drugih oblika otpora lokalnim i nacionalnim političko-ekonomskim elitama novog potrošačkog društva.
