Approche socio-ethnographique des processus de socialisation chez les adolescents d’une équipe de football amateur

Abstract

Few socio-ethnographical studies evoke the importance of football in the processes of socialization of the young people. This search aims to be resolutely inductive and bases itself on the ethnographical observation of the ground of the Jeunesse Sportive Lafarge Limoges (JSL), a football club of a district of Limoges (Limousin). The author underlines the importance of the competitive spirit and the good-companionship, but also the emergence of more educational institutional concerns which strike this environment. The analysis of the field observations led to sociologists of the school of Chicago such as Berger and Luckmann, Goffman and Becker. A more attentive observation of these quasi-daily meetings between players, educators and parents reveals more complex and mutual processes of apprenticeship and socialization between the young people and the club.