Violence Among Football Fans

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Violence Among Football Fans

Hypothesis

There is a large amount of violence amongst football fans. I want to

find out the reasons for this, and see what people's attitudes to the

people committing the violence, I think that some of the reasons for

the violence could be:

· Drink

· Big matches

· Big events

· gender and ethnicity

· age

· social class/background

· media coverage

· level of competition

I think that the majority of people will think that football hooligans

are the stereotypical young working class yobs, motivated by drink.

Introduction

In my coursework I am researching football hooliganism,

and the amount of football violence over the years. I am going to try

and find out what the reasons for this are, and people's stereotypical

views of the people committing the violence, and I want to find out if

football hooliganism has increased or decreased. I am also trying to

find out if the stereotypical views are reality, or if the media

portrayal is just to influence people, and make them dislike certain

social groups and classes. I want to find out if violence is increased

by drinking alcohol, big matches, result, people's social

class/background, level of competition, media coverage etc.

In the media football violence has been portrayed as white, working

class males, this is a stereotype supported by several academic

studies e.g. Dunning 1988, Trivizas 1980 etc. Trivizas study also

found that contrary to the stereotype of football hooligans as working

class youths, the majority were actually adults (Trivizas, 1980,

p.285).

My aims are to try and find out p...

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...very representative.

I found my questionnaire very useful, and it has produced a big

majority of my project, and I am happy with the results I have gained

from it.

If I were to do this coursework again, I would try and get a more even

range of male and female, and different age groups. If I did this

project again, and if I had enough time, I might have considered doing

some interviews, and possibly an observation. I think these would be

better, because if I did an interview, I might be able to find out

more than I did with my questionnaire, and this would also resolve the

problem of people not understanding the question.

If I did an observation I think this would be useful because I would

bond as a group with people, and understand how the hooligans work,

and their motives behind why they commit the violence.

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