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The Touchstones for Understanding Football Fans’ Collective Actions: A Primer in Cultural Relational Sociology

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Collective Action and Football Fandom

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Abstract

This chapter lays down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of football fans that can be gathered from the published literature in both the sociology of social movements and the sociology of sport. These analytical touchstones are (i) the structures of and roles in collective action; (ii) affect, emotion, and collective effervescence; (iii) communication, cooperation, and conventions; (iv) mobilizing resources; (v) tactics; (vi) recruitment to collective action and ‘outcomes’ of mobilization; and (vii) the spaces and places of organization and action. Each is relationally defined and discussed.

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Cleland, J., Doidge, M., Millward, P., Widdop, P. (2018). The Touchstones for Understanding Football Fans’ Collective Actions: A Primer in Cultural Relational Sociology. In: Collective Action and Football Fandom. Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73141-4_2

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