Behavior of Slavia Prague football fans: some selected ethical aspects
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Kinanthropology |
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| Keywords | aggression; deontic position; football club; utilitarian way of thinking; violence |
| Description | The purpose of this research deals with the fact that football (soccer) is one of the most popular sports all over the world but this beautiful game has its dark side, as well: corruption, homophobia, violence, and racism. Within our research we focused on one specific category of visitors – football fans. We divided fans into five types according to their motivation and differences in their behavior. This kind of division was based on the theoretical and practical studies which have been published mostly in the last two decades. Our empirical research was focused on the fans of Slavia Prague (a Czech football club). Within the survey we obtained and analyzed data about relationship between fans’ verbal and other expression and about their violent behavior. Primary data were collected by a questionnaire survey mainly at the Eden stadium in 2015 and 2016. A total of 462 respondents (aged 26.29 ± 10.19 years old) participated in this research and all the respondents were attending in a stand of home team supporters. In our research, we found that expressions of demolishing the stadium and other disturbances are considered the most serious expression of violent behavior by 79.22% of the fans. On the other hand, 77.06% of the fans stated that boo is the least serious problem. The final aim of this paper is to consider and discuss some concrete outputs coming from the empirical research within the ethical discourse. While the utilitarian position presents one possible viewpoint for the ethical approach, the deontic position provides a bit different ethical platform. Because of the limited space for this complex issue we focused on defining the main structure of different kinds of behavior and their ethical consequences in both the deontic and utilitarian perspectives. |