Book Review: Simpsonology: There's A Little Bit of Springfield in all of US
In: Teaching sociology: TS, Volume 37, Issue 3, p. 318-319
ISSN: 1939-862X
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In: Teaching sociology: TS, Volume 37, Issue 3, p. 318-319
ISSN: 1939-862X
In: Teaching sociology: TS, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 428-431
ISSN: 1939-862X
In: Sociological focus: quarterly journal of the North Central Sociological Association, Volume 38, Issue 2, p. 83-93
ISSN: 2162-1128
In: Journal of sport and social issues: the official journal of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 25-45
ISSN: 1552-7638
Data presented from participant observation among minor league hockey players reveals how workers react to individual and collective failure in their occupational world. Failure on the group level refers to losing hockey games. Failure on the individual level involves not making the team. A player can fail to make the team by being gassed, by being traded, or by being placed on waivers. Each of these ways has a separate meaning with a distinct set of experiences, consequences, and reactions. A continuum of failure in this occupational world is presented by describing the consequences of failed performance and the differing reactions among co-workers to each type of failure. Group reactions to failure in hockey involve the interruption of social relationships based on the ensuing separation from the status position previously held by the failed player. As one moves along this continuum of failure, co- workers view the failed player and react to him as if the failed no longer existed, as socially dead or at least socially very ill. This continuum of failure points out the interrelatedness of group and personal reaction to failure and how one feeds off and reinforces the other.
In: Sociological spectrum: the official Journal of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Volume 8, Issue 3, p. 213-235
ISSN: 1521-0707