I mentioned on here a last September I was doing my Dissertation on football hooliganism. I'm coming to the end of my degree and I was just looking for peoples opinions on one final matter. I'm trying to come to the conclusion that hooliganism is a social problem more than it is a football problem. People might disagree with me, but that's fine. So what social problems do you feel there are today? Immigration getting out of control maybe? Lack of unemployment?
Why has UKIP suddenly emerged as a force in the local elections?
Any help would be great thank you!
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The argument in short, is basically that if you treat someone or a group as criminals, then eventually they will act as criminals. Obviously there are many more aspects.
Immigration and employment have little to do with football violence IMHO. They are social issues but I don't see the correlation to specifically football violence and just asking people on here isn't going to be suitable evidence of any link.
Would you not be better to chart the amount of football violence against rises/reductions in employment to give some real evidence. You would then need to prove cause and effect.
As immigration has been a constant since WW2 and long before, what link are you suggesting. Were Millwall fans fighting at Wembley over the lifting of restrictions on Bulgarian workers?
IMHO the social issues relating to football violence are more likely to be alcohol and drug use/abuse and the place of fighting/violence in male identity within some UK societies.
You will know the quote from Ted Croker to Maggie Thatcher about "your hooligans" so not a new dispute between football or societies hooligans. Doesn't make you stance invalid but there is a lot of research out there on this.
Sorry if this sounds harsh but your opening statement was very woolly for a uni dissertation
Social problems today...if only lack of unemployment was a problem.
I'd start with disparities in socio-economic status/income disparities and the resulting lack of opportunity for many people, particularly school leavers.
Why has UKIP emerged as a force in local politics...recession. People often turn to extreme solutions in recessionary times especially when the major political parties seem to be unable to come with any of the answers (see Germany in the 1920s and then in the 1930s). While they are taking votes off all the major parties it seems that they are predominantly taking votes away from the Conservatives and Call-Me-Dave and his cohort of public school chums (another OE joined his Downing Street team yesterday - what are the odds on that?) are making a hash of governing the country. When the strongest right-of-centre party is clueless you may as well make a protest vote and for right of centre voters UKIP is the logical choice.
Of course you will have in mind your conclusion. Probably made up before u started. That is fine but you have to avoid displaying this in your essay. Try to disguise any preconceptions. They are looking for innovation
I read law and use the acronym ISAC
Identify
State
Analyse
Conclude
Its a useful tool for uni essays.
As much statistical info as u can muster always impresses in the arts subjects. State it, then critique
Good luck buddy
I will stop there.
Some people choose to potter around in the garden on a Saturday afternoon whilst others prefer to roll around on the floor with other grown men to get their kicks. Each to their own.
To pick up on Henner' point - modern hooliganism was formed and influenced by some sub-cultures of the period (mods, punks, bootboys, skinheads etc) and is therefore very tribalistic in its nature and football encourages tribalism, setting clubs in say north London, Liverpool, Manchester etc against each other. In other nations (Czech Republic, Russia, Balkans, Italy and Germany - particularly in eastern Germany around Brandenburg and Berlin) the hooliganism takes on a political bias with far right groups in particular using football hooliganism as an outlet and violence has a political tinge, but we've never had that in the UK although there was a strong racist tone involved in some of the chanting in the 70s and 80s. But in the UK it's not about the haves v the have nots, there's some evidence that socio-economic differences are irrelevant in British hooliganism.
Instead of educating the population on the good side of immigration and inclusion in the EU, governments have tended to ignore the issues and hope that it goes away.
UKIP are taking advantage by steering their whole campaign on these two issues, almost making them a scapegoat for the problems that normal people are facing.
Believe what the data tells you, not what you had hoped the data would say. That's for creationists.
The BBC constructed a survey recently that suggests not many from Bulgaria or Romania will enter the UK next year. As for the EU, I think you will find the EU contributes towards the BBC so they will try and avoid every negative issue about the EU but they can't ignore UKIP.
See this - http://www.theeuroprobe.org/?p=178
You are right the immigration has been good but since 2004 when we opened the door then it became a problem because too many people have come into our Country and claimed Social benefits, jobs and national health insurance. We have far too many people coming into our Country and the UK's population is increasing.
Just to add to that, the LibLabCon are a bunch of college kids who never had a job, served the army, set up a business so being elected is important to them because they would never get a real job elsewhere. UKIP's reps are different to them because they had a job before they got into politics.
We brits never dropped the a bomb but we chat shite like no others. Make love not war
U wanna persuade understand the others view.
I bled red white and blue but dont sensationalise. We are charltom we our betterthan that
Educate the lad dont put the blinkers on
Dont know u tell me! Rationale like and i am all ears