组织社会学视野下老年健身社团的合法化运作——以SAMQ为个案

A STUDY OF THE LEGALIZATION MECHANISMS OF THE ELDERLY FITNESS CLUB FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY——A case study of SAMQ

采用参与观察、深度访谈等方法,以老年女性为主的民间健身社团为个案,深入剖析了老年健身社团为获得合法性身份而采取的行动策略。研究发现:老年健身社团从积极回应国家的政治取向、用荣誉赢得领导支持、极力遵从国家的相关规定、彰显科学健身理念等方面进行外部合法化运作;通过维持社团的外部合法性、丰富成员的组织生活、尊重成员的选择、加强成员的自我教育等方面进行内部合法化运作;为了解决组织的内部合法化与外部合法化问题,社团采取了社团系统元素之间"松散的连接"。

The author uses such methods as participant observation, in-depth interviews with spontaneous and bottom-up approach, takes folk fitness club for older women as a case and analyses the action strategies taken by the elderly fitness club in order to obtain the legitimacy of identity. The research shows that the elderly fit- ness clubs legitimize external operations by actively responding to the country＇ s political orientation, gaining the support of the leadership with honor, trying to comply with the relevant provisions of the State and high- lighting the scientific concept of fitness; they legitimize internal operations by maintaining external legitimacy of the societies , enriching memberships＇ life, respecting the choice of the members, strengthening the self- education of members. ＂Loose Connection＂ between system elements inside the organization provides a foun- dation for achieving their full legitimacy in order to work out a solution to their internal and external legaliza- tion of their organizations.