caa a22 4500 44588701X CHVBK 20180317145602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11133-010-9175-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11133-010-9175-8 Caged Morality: Moral Worlds, Subculture, and Stratification Among Middle-Class Cage-Fighters [Elektronische Daten] [Corey Abramson, Darren Modzelewski] Social scientists have long been concerned with how and why marginalized groups create and participate in subcultures. There has been significantly less work examining how those with access to conventional status and success participate in subcultures, often despite significant economic and social costs. The result has been lopsided theorizing that neglects much of the positive, affective, and moral appeal of subcultures at all levels of stratification. The participation of middle-class men and women in the rapidly growing world of cage-fighting speaks to this longstanding issue in the existing literature. We find these individuals participate in a sporting subculture that involves bodily, interpersonal, and professional sacrifices because they feel it gives them the ability to viscerally realize the widely shared American ideals that form the core components of their "moral world.” The subculture holds particular sway over its members because they feel that its ideals, status hierarchies, and daily practices more directly embody the deeply embedded principles of middle-class morality and habitus than other elements of their lives. The Author(s), 2010 Subculture nationallicence Sports nationallicence Cage-fighting nationallicence Morality nationallicence Embodiment nationallicence Mixed martial arts nationallicence Culture nationallicence Abramson Corey Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, The Center for Urban Ethnography, 2420 Bowditch St., 94720-5670, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Modzelewski Darren Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, The Center for Urban Ethnography, 2420 Bowditch St., 94720-5670, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2011-03-01), 143-175 0162-0436 34:1<143 2011 34 11133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9175-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9175-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abramson Corey Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, The Center for Urban Ethnography, 2420 Bowditch St., 94720-5670, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Modzelewski Darren Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, The Center for Urban Ethnography, 2420 Bowditch St., 94720-5670, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2011-03-01), 143-175 0162-0436 34:1<143 2011 34 11133 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer