In this study, describing and analysing various phenomena on the resource exchange which was performed in the social network of in-line skate club among activating sports' club in the present, cultural skill was studied focusing on the in-line skate c...
In this study, describing and analysing various phenomena on the resource exchange which was performed in the social network of in-line skate club among activating sports' club in the present, cultural skill was studied focusing on the in-line skate club members' daily lives and their viewpoints to understand how the resource exchange relation was made, how power relation which had formed in the process was represented and what balancing strategy the individual members used to decrease the power from the perspective of Emerson's 'exchange network theory'.
To examine it 12 members of the SPEED club were chosen as the research participants and materials had been collected through participant observation, in-depth interview and video recording the researcher participating as a member in it from March, 2004 to January, 2005. Collected materials were analysed through domain analysis and taxonomic analysis. The summarizing results through this process are as follows.
First, the reasons SPEED members participated in the club were skill aquisition, amusement, social activity, health and self-display. The social networks were maintained because the participants themselves judged they could obtain the resources they wanted through the club activities.
Second, the resources exchanged in the club members' social network were instrumental resource, emotional resource and material resource. The types of exchange relation were unilateral relation, bilateral relation and non-exchange relation.
Third, the power in the club members' social network was represented in the process of class and the use of a sponsored shop. The instructor had the power of unilateral monopoly structure to the students in the beginners' class. Also the power was displayed in the team members who were dependent on the racing training program, from which they could obtain available resource for participating the competitions. In the individual class it was occurred depending on the associates' skating function. In the use of the sponsored shop the power was displayed in the case it depended on the club which obtained the potential resource of the club members and the members depended on the shop in which they could purchase reliable goods more easily. In this situation what strategy power owners use to maintain the power was examined. First, in the beginners' class indifference on resource, control for order maintenance, language threat and alternative resource control were used and in the small group activity indifference on resource, control for order maintenance were used. Finally in the individual class indifference on resource, support control, language threat and alternative resource control were used. Power was used in the use of the sponsored shop. Indifference on resource and support control were used under the sponsored shop's dependence on the club and support control was used as power maintenance strategy under the club members' dependence on the sponsored shop.
Forth, the balancing strategy in the beginners' class were adaptation, the discovery of alternative resource and value increase of reinforcer and in the small group activity adaptation, the discovery of alternative resource were used as the balancing strategy. In the individual class adaptation, the discovery of alternative resource and the value increase of reinforcer were used. Also the balancing strategy in the process of the use of the sponsored shop adaptation, the discovery of alternative resource were used under the sponsored shop's dependence on the club and the discovery of alternative resource and the value of reinforcer under the club members' dependence on the sponsored shop.