Football Violence/Advice to Police
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- Football Violence/Advice to Police
- Key ideas from social psychology
- Social Identity Theory (Tajfel 1979)
- Advise police that fans may categorise themselves as belonging to the in-group and other supporters are the outgroup (social categorisation)
- Fans may wear shirts and sing chants to identify themselves as part of the group (social identification)
- Fans may then compare themselves with opposing fans. To build up their self-esteem the focus on negative traits of other supporters (social comparison)
- May accuse other team of cheating, may shout abuse at the opposing teams players
- Advise police to create a superordinate goal as in Sherif's Robbers Cave study to make the groups work together. This will help reduce conflict.
- May accuse other team of cheating, may shout abuse at the opposing teams players
- Fans may then compare themselves with opposing fans. To build up their self-esteem the focus on negative traits of other supporters (social comparison)
- Fans may wear shirts and sing chants to identify themselves as part of the group (social identification)
- Advise police that fans may categorise themselves as belonging to the in-group and other supporters are the outgroup (social categorisation)
- Agency Theory (Milgram )
- Ring leaders may be seen as legitimate authority by other fans
- Blind obedience to the ringleader as other fans act as agents (in an agentic state) and pass responsibility for their actions to the ringleader
- Will act in a way that causes harm to others (as found in Milgram, 1963 and Meeus and Raaijmakers 1986)
- Advise police to identify and remove ringleaders. Without them there won't be anyone to give the orders
- other fans will then act in an autonomous state and take responsibility for their own actions. So less likely to be violent
- Advise police to identify and remove ringleaders. Without them there won't be anyone to give the orders
- Will act in a way that causes harm to others (as found in Milgram, 1963 and Meeus and Raaijmakers 1986)
- Blind obedience to the ringleader as other fans act as agents (in an agentic state) and pass responsibility for their actions to the ringleader
- Ring leaders may be seen as legitimate authority by other fans
- Concept of Deindividuation
- Wearing 'uniform' of football shirt may feel anonymous and therefore act in a way they wouldn't normally. More likely to act aggressively
- Advise police to use obvious CCTV cameras as this may stop people feeling that they are anonymous and mean there is less aggressive behaviour
- Wearing 'uniform' of football shirt may feel anonymous and therefore act in a way they wouldn't normally. More likely to act aggressively
- Social Identity Theory (Tajfel 1979)
- Key ideas from social psychology
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