著者

庄形 篤

出版者

日本スポーツ人類学会

雑誌

スポーツ人類學研究 (ISSN:13454358)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2013, no.15, pp.97-122, 2013-12-31 (Released:2023-01-25)

被引用文献数

1

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A club activity at school is popular in Japan. The social concern with corporal punishment in athletic clubs has been growing. Over the past few decades, a considerable number of studies have been conducted on it. Those previous studies have been based on the assumption that it has no room to accept from the viewpoint of social ethics. This assumption prevents us understanding it; therefore I would like to handle it as one of club’s culture in this article, by freeing itself from the viewpoint of social ethics. It is important to take this point of view. Corporal punishment is criticized around the world now. However, many teachers keep inflicting it on club members in athletic clubs. We can interpret this contradiction in the following way: they may give a peculiar value to it. In order to understanding the meaning of corporal punishment, it is necessary to discuss an "emic" viewpoint. There has been no study that tried to discuss it from this viewpoint. Therefore, to understand corporal punishment in athletic clubs concretely, in this study the case of A high school women’s handball club is discussed with the method of fieldwork. In addition, this study focuses on the background of the corporal punishment and tries to find out the mechanism for acceptability of it. As a consequence, the club members believe that it is necessary for their growth to endure the corporal punishment. The result clearly shows that they interpret it as the way of self-discipline and self-cultivation.