CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Agich, Arin |
|---|---|
| Title | "One For All, All For Whom?": The Role Of Ethnic And Religious Identity Among Basketball Players In North Macedonia |
| Summary | The present thesis examines and compares the attitudes of Macedonian players coming from ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous basketball teams towards Albanian players in Skopje, North Macedonia. In my study, I depart from the concepts of social identity (with a focus on ethnic and religious identity), prejudice, intersectionality and contact. These concepts are necessary to understand the role of belonging to a social category on prejudice in the context of team sports. In answering the research questions of the thesis, I conduct focus groups with the participants of the National League and National Team players of North Macedonia. In order to analyze the data collected from the field, I use the method of thematic analysis where I examine and compare the discourses of the players. The results reveal that the social identity among the Macedonian national team players overcame the ethnic and religious identity of the Albanian players within the team. Hence, when comparing the Macedonian players coming from homogeneous and heterogenous teams, no differences were found in attitudes towards the Albanian players. Therefore, direct contact does not indicate prejudice reduction among Macedonian players. In addition, no intersectionality in prejudice is found due to higher negative inclinations towards the ethnic identity of the Albanian players i.e. their religious belonging does not affect the attitudes of Macedonian players. Keywords: social identity, ethnic and religious identity, prejudice, contact, basketball |
| Supervisor | Varadi Luca and Al-Bagdadi Nadia |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/agich_arin.pdf |
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