足球与日本社会的聚合化

Football and the Eventisation of Japanese society

考察20世纪后半叶日本足球的崛起时,就不能脱离对社会、文化的变迁等大背景的把握。将足球比赛视作在特殊条件下,由观众组成的临时群体创造和运营的活动,从人类学的立场出发,论述了拉拉队和观众在体育赛事"表演"中发挥的核心作用。同时,从社会学角度明确指出,由于其特殊构造和内在,体育赛事较好地满足了近代后期日本国民的社会需求。由于聚合活动的意义从特殊变为普通,但其核心意义仍在强调经验的特殊性,足球在日本社会的聚合化中发挥了典型性的作用。

The rise of football in late 20th century Japan cannot be grasped adequately without reference to the wider context of social and cultural change. In this article, football is conceptualised as an event which is produced and managed under very specific conditions for temporary groups of participating audiences. From an anthropological perspective, I argue that supporters and spectators occupy a central role in the “performance” of sport events. From a sociological perspective, I show that due to its specific structure and contents ( sport) events are well suited to fulfill the social needs of the inhabitants of late modernity. As the context of events in general changed from the extraordinary to the ordinary, while its core meaning continues to underline the outstanding particularity of its experience, football has come to play a typical role within the eventisation of Japanese society.