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Strikes, Frames, And Touchdowns: The Institutional Struggle For Meaning In The 1987 National Football League Season
Author(s) -
Schmitt Raymond L.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1991.14.3.237
Subject(s) - symbolic interactionism , framing (construction) , sociology , football , ambiguity , meaning (existential) , newspaper , league , media studies , collective memory , aesthetics , social psychology , social science , epistemology , psychology , political science , linguistics , law , history , art , philosophy , physics , archaeology , astronomy
The introduction of “replacement” teams for the first time in the NFL provided an opportunity to investigate how controversial social definitions and the meaning of such frames emerge within a modern social world. Seven processes were identified: disrupting social worlds, experiencing social ambiguity, interpreting disruption institutionally, socially constructing laminations, disattending problematics of laminations, culturally adapting to anomaly, and negating collective protest. Conclusions are based on an emergent content analysis of extensive newspaper, sport and newsmagazine, and live television and radio accounts. The value of Goffman's framing ideas for symbolic interactionism is discussed.