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social group is an association of people who share a collective ideaand usually has collective behavior. People need to find anidentification in a social group. A social identity is ourunderstanding who we are. In addition, a primary benefit of collectivebehavior is a sense of
belonging that arises with groupidentification. Collective identity is known for its ability to giveindividuals a sense of belonging. However, belonging to a social groupmay bring some
disadvantages as well as some positive outcomes likethe ones mentioned above. As an illustration of this fanship has bothpositive and negative outcomes.A
fan identify is beneficial to the individual, because it may providea sense of community. It appears that, sports fanship can unite peopleand provide feelings of belonging that is beneficial to individuals.Benefits include an increase in self-esteem, an escape from dailylife, entertainment and group affiliation. Fanship providesindividuals to be a part of the same game without requirement of anyspecial skills. In addition, fanship offers such social
Benefits asfeeling of community and solidarity. On the other hand, a fan groupprovides benefits fort he sports team itself, the team feels animportant support of a huge amount of people ad the team members feela support which is important for their motivation. Anderson points outthat fans represent an association that provides the individual with agreat deal of emotional and value significance and adds that since itis derived from the word fanatic, a fan can be defined as an ardentdevotee of sports, or as an individual possessed frequently an excessive enthusiasm for sport.Fanship may also have negative outcomes as well as positive outcomes.One of the basic disadvantages of belonging to a specific group is tobe isolated by several other groups. You are in a circle whose borderare just limited by the group activities you involve in. More over,fans are lack of critisising and just depend on the rules and idea oftheir group strongly. On the other hand, fans can be aggressive andoffensive towards out groups. Opponent group members advocate eachother. Therefore, the supporters may be harmful due to advocation andeven fight with each other. The situation gets out of control, as theydamage each other they also cause big damages at the stadiums. Peoplewho come to watch the match with their girl friend, children or withtheir family are affected by this kind of violence. You can not takeyour children to a match because of offensive behavior of fans andtheir inappropriate language. In addition, too much fanaticism mayeven cause serious negatives effects between two country such as political if the match isbetween countries, for example, in the year 2000 a football matchbetween Galatasaray and Liverpool took place in İstanbul, after thematch there was a conflict between the fanatics so three of theLiverpool fans died and many people who were fanatics of both groupswere injured. Therefore, that caused some sensation between twocountries in the media, fortunately it didn''t last long and didn''tlead to very serious problems.To sum up, obtaining a social identify in a social group may bringboth positive and negative outcomes. Actually, it''s known that to be abasic need for human beings to identify themselves in a social group.As long as you keep control of your behavior and do not turn such kindof behavior into harmful dimension collective behavior and feelings ofbelonging to some social groups provide many benefits…
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