Karate: the making and the maintenance of an underdog class
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ABSTRACT:
This paper examined karate as a leisure time activity, using ethnographic procedures. The author found karate has widespread appeal, but that primarily working class males, most of whom hold deadend jobs, stick to the rigorous training program. The fundamental conclusion of this study was that karate and its offer of indomitable power, function to make and maintain a class of underdogs by offering a system of vertical mobility which is parallel to the system of stratification by economic rank. The result is the structural preservation of idealized American values of diligence, hard work, suffering, and honesty in a class of potential malcontents. Analyzes Karate as a leisure time activity and using ethnographic procedures finds that primarily working class males, most of whom hold tedious jobs, stick to the rigorous training program. Concludes that Karate serves to reconcile the incompatible demands of a culture which emphasizes achievement for its members but denies them access to success by offering a system of vertical mobility parallel to the system of stratification by economic ranks.
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