Organized Lifestyle Sports in Southern California: Social Facts, Collective Consciousness, and Solidarity Among University Surfers
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3 décembre 2022
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- doi: 10.1007/s41978-022-00125-7
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Jérémy Lemarié, « Organized Lifestyle Sports in Southern California: Social Facts, Collective Consciousness, and Solidarity Among University Surfers », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10.1007/s41978-022-00125-7
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Leisure among university students can take place on campus or out-of-campus. It can be spontaneous or organized under the umbrella of a fraternity, a sorority, or a club. While there is an important body of literature on fraternities and sororities, less is known about recreational activities occurring in a sports club. To deepen our understanding of leisure in universities, this article seeks to answer the question: how is the practice of surfing made possible by students within a university sports club? Within the positive sociology of leisure framework, this work uses Durkheim’s theoretical contribution to sociology and posits that partaking in lifestyle sports may promote solidarity, social bonding, and acceptance of norms and traditions. In demonstrating that social laws and rules do structure lifestyle sports, this research challenges the idea that surfers tend to be individualistic and condemn institutions. Based on a 20-month fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2013 at two public universities in Southern California, this analysis indicates that university surfers enrolled in a sports club are community-based, tied by social facts, and show solidarity.