Caged Morality: Moral Worlds, Subculture, and Stratification Among Middle-Class Cage-Fighters

摘要: Social scientists have long been concerned with how and why marginalized groups create participate in subcultures. There has significantly less work examining those access to conventional status success subcultures, often despite significant economic social costs. The result lopsided theorizing that neglects much of the positive, affective, moral appeal subcultures at all levels stratification. participation middle-class men women rapidly growing world cage-fighting speaks this longstanding issue existing literature. We find these individuals a sporting subculture involves bodily, interpersonal, professional sacrifices because they feel it gives them ability viscerally realize widely shared American ideals form core components their “moral world.” holds particular sway over its members ideals, hierarchies, daily practices more directly embody deeply embedded principles morality habitus than other elements lives.