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Disqualifying the Official: An Exploration of Social Resistance through the Subculture of Skateboarding

Year: 1995

Type: article

Abstract: This paper describes some of the ways in which popular culture may be a site of social resistance. The subculture of skateboarding is described as one form of popular culture that resists capitalist social relations, and the skateboarders’ particularly overt resistance to an amateur contest provides a framework for characterizing their daily and more covert behaviors of resistance. Although social resistance has the potential to change dominant social relations, it is often limited by contradictions and accommodations. In this case, the skateboarders’ sexist behavior is one of their significant contradictions. Finally, some implications of social resistance are addressed.

Source: Sociology of Sport Journal

DOI: 10.1123/ssj.12.3.252

Author: Becky Beal

Institution: University of the Pacific

Language: English

Topic: Youth Culture and Social Dynamics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Northern Illinois University

OpenAlex ID: W1512423726