Jimerson2001
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Jason B. Jimerson |
| Title | A Conversation (Re)Analysis of Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room |
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| Tag(s) | conversation analysis, locker room talk, fraternal bonding, sport |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Journal | Sociology of Sport Journal |
| Volume | 18 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 317–338 |
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Abstract
This article reexamines the fifteen talk fragments in "Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room: A Profeminist Analysis of Talk about Competition and Women" (Curry, 1991), an oft-cited article on locker room talk, which epitomizes how sociologists utilize talk. Curry employed a profeminist perspective to study behavior in the locker rooms of two college sport teams. Curry claimed no one challenged sexism and homophobia in either locker room. I counter this claim by reanalyzing his examples. I employ a conversation analytic perspective to study the utterances presented by Curry in support of his claims, and I find that nine fragments reveal some dissent in how listeners reacted to crass talk. The disparities are due to Curry’s selective rather than sequential analyses of utterances. For this reason, I argue that sports talk should be analyzed using conversation analysis.
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