This study aims at understanding it by analyzing subculture of youth yacht sports club having been currently operated in Korea comprehensively and in depth so as to expand and settle correct culture of youth yacht sports club. Thus, the purpose of thi...
This study aims at understanding it by analyzing subculture of youth yacht sports club having been currently operated in Korea comprehensively and in depth so as to expand and settle correct culture of youth yacht sports club. Thus, the purpose of this study lies in providing basic data in suggesting future activation plans of youth yacht sports club.
In order to achieve goals of this study, this study was conducted ethnographic research, and executed participation observation while participating in and acting as a coach directly by objecting youth yacht sports club located in B Metropolitan City, and also selected 16 members of youth yacht sports club as main research participants to do in-depth interviews regarding the part of not being able to grasp through participation observation. Besides, 5 persons including yacht coaches in training department who worked in the industry related to yacht, yacht athletes of ex-youth yacht club were chosen as subsidiary research participant of this research.
Data were collected by intensively doing participation observation on several fields of youth yacht club (yacht competition, club event, parent meeting, small group meeting etc) for 8 months from March 1 to October 31, 2016, and drew up participation observation notes, and 16 persons were selected in the last period of participation observation to do in-depth interviews.
Based on collected data, area analysis and classification analysis were conducted, and analytical results by using methods of reflective subjectivity, in-depth technology, researcher peer questioning, multi-angle analysis, revaluation by research participants to secure sociability and regularity are same as follows.
First, social, cultural characteristics on subculture of youth yacht sports club were as follows. Participations in youth yacht club were made by recommendation and advice of acquaintances mostly, and the participants became to have sociability and regularity through constant yacht participation, and students of elite sports department appeared to form different-type relations from general students regarding relations with teachers owing to frequent absence of class etc. Youth yacht sports club played positive roles such as mutual motivation, community life, the pleasure of yacht etc. while coexisting together, and negative conflicts such as entering competition and training etc were displayed. Parents of students in youth yacht sports club played positive roles such like making intimate relations between parents of yacht club students and elite yacht department while being coexisted, and negative conflicts were revealed too due to discordance of opinions in off-season training, training support, and operating directions of the club etc.
Second, social, structural characteristics of youth yacht sports club were as follows. Social, structural image of yacht was turned up having recognition like ‘bourgeois sports,’ ‘risky sports,’ ‘sports which is not available in winter.’ Internal characteristics of yacht sports club had limitations of yacht activation due to restrictions by natural environment and time, and operation system has been systematized more. Regarding external characteristics of yacht sports club, there were limitations in activating yacht owing to aging and shortage of yacht club facilities, but they appeared to be very excellent in geographical accessibility compared to other areas.