Sociology of "HASHIRIYA" : A Study on the "Grassroots" of Motorsports

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  • 「走り屋」の社会学 : モータースポーツにおける「草の根」の考察
  • ハシリヤ ノ シャカイガク モータースポーツ ニオケル クサノネ ノ コウサツ
  • ハシリヤ ノ シャカイガク モーター スポーツ ニ オケル クサノネ ノ コウ

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Abstract

This paper pay attention to a youth subculture group so to speak "street", whose members commit reckless quasi-racing speeding on the public roads. We regard them as the "grassroots" of motorsports. This assumption is indeed problematic because their activities are obviously illegal , but being informed about their realities and social setting surrounding motorsports as whole, we understand that their emergence is inevitable to a certain extent. As a result from rigorous legal restriction about modification ("tuning") of automobiles and the policy of the supervising federation of motorsports that reflects these laws, they are forced into the dangerous games on the public roads. In broader perspective, we can further point out a problem of semantic dimension that underlies above condition. Motorsports is nothing but the "eliminated third" of the binary-structurized (into speed / safety) universe of discourse that is essencial to our motorized society. Contrasting this fact, we find a "politics of category" within the self-styled name of street subculture, hashriya. This vocabulary seems to aim to establish a self-subsistent / autonomous category of motorsports. It is, according to H. Sacks, a "revolutionary category".

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 19 53-70, 1998

    大阪大学人間科学部社会学・人間学・人類学研究室

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