There ain’t no party like an S-Club party

Adicciones, 2009

Adicciones, 2009

This editorial presents the views of the guest editors of this collection in summarising some of the general themes arising from a selection of papers presented at the 2008 Club Health Conference in Ibiza, Spain. Particular emphasis is placed upon the value of comparative approaches to club studies, youth culture and substance use so that researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners can gain new understanding of the interplay of local and global factors which shape club cultures, nightlife scenes, and individual lifestyles. By contextualizing the studies in this volume, the editorial outlines important themes and issues which will help promote Club Studies as an interdisciplinary field of endeavour well into the future. RESUMEN ABSTRACT Este número presenta las perspectivas de los editores invitados en esta colección resumiendo parte de los temas generales de una selección de trabajos presentados en el Congreso Club Health 2008, celebrado en Ibiza (España). Se da especial importancia al valor de los enfoques comparativos en los estudios sobre clubs, la cultura juvenil y el consumo de sustancias, para que los investigadores, los políticos y los médicos tengan una nueva visión de la interrelación de los factores locales y globales que definen las culturas del club, los ambientes nocturnos y los estilos de vida individuales. Al contextualizar las investigaciones en este número, se subrayan temas y cuestiones importantes que potenciarán los estudios sobre los clubs como un campo de trabajo interdisciplinar en el futuro. Palabras clave: estudios sobre clubs, comparativos, economía del ocio nocturno, drogas, consumo de sustancias, culturas de club, música, jóve-nes, reducción de daños.

2004

The popularity of lesbian/gay clubs Being European vs. the Polish national homophobia Social pluralism in lesbian/gay clubs The local hetero-matrix The monotonous one-dimensional erotic capacity of entertainment venues from the communist era in Poland has been replaced by a diversity of clubs since the boom of democracy. Lesbian and gay clubs, which could not have publicly existed under the previous political system, are now enjoying popularity in heterosexual society. This would be fantastic if it was all about tolerance in the name of which all types of sexuality mingle for the pleasure of having fun together. “Let all the different couples, dance, kiss and love, get drunk and intoxicated side by side”, is the ostensible slogan of Paweł Leszkowicz and Tomek Kitliński, although they are aware that these words have a utopian resonance. The brutal Polish reality shows that our country still has a long way to go if it wants to achieve the openness found in Western Europe. The fights started in gay clubs by homophobic thugs and the persecution that leads to the closing of these venues clubs and bars embarrassingly prove the point. So it is not surprising that “the young generation is torn between being European and typically Polish (i.e. homophobic). Neither is it surprising that different sexual orientation is still a matter of significance and inequality in the face of the law”. Fortunately, it is not only the aggressive “real” men who come to these clubs to have a good time by, at best, ridiculing or abusing gays and lesbians. The clientele often includes heterosexuals without excess testosterone levels who come to gay clubs simply to have a good time. For example, heterosexual women enjoy these places since they are free of the sexist atmosphere that they often encounter in the so-called “normal” venues. This makes lesbian and gay clubs an oasis for a diversity of guests and thus reflects real social pluralism. We must, however, remember that this pluralism is still being effectively limited by the “agents of the hetero-matrix”. The authors note that if “you kiss a partner of the same gender in a heterosexual venue you will most certainly get your face smashed in”. So when will this image naturally fuse into that of a night out with tolerant heterosexuals?

Public Choice, 1997

A club is a voluntary group deriving mutual benefits from sharing one or more of the following: production costs, the members' characteristics, or a good characterized by excludable benefits. Although thirty years has passed since James Buchanan (1965) published his ...

The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon, which during the last decade has had a notable impact on lifestyles of a great many young people in Poland, namely, the club culture.

One hundred forty-seven men who have sex with men completed time-line follow-back interviews about the venues where they met their male partners (n = 1180 sexual events with first-time partners, ,30 days). We ran multivariate models to determine the association between venues and condomless anal sex (CAS). After adjusting for known correlates of CAS, partners met at sex parties presented significantly greater odds for CAS compared with meeting a partner at a gay bar/club (adjusted odds ratio = 0.44), online (adjusted odds ratio = 0.42), bathhouse (adjusted odds ratio = 0.35), or via "other" venues (adjusted odds ratio = 0.35), all P , 0.01. These findings highlight the need to develop innovative HIV/sexually transmitted infection prevention initiatives for men who attend sex parties.

Rationality and Society, 2004

The theory of clubs addresses the gap between purely private and purely public goods, being concerned with how groups (‘clubs’) form to provide themselves with goods that are available to their membership, but from which others (non-members) can be excluded. Despite 35 years of formal development, there have been virtually no laboratory studies of club formation. We develop the ‘social poker’ laboratory paradigm toward .lling this gap, and test the predictions from club theory that populations will partition into a privately and socially optimal set of clubs. The experiment included three conditions: (1) ‘Single shot’ with one trial of club formation; (2) ‘iterated’ with a sequence of four trials; and (3) ‘iterated dollar-guarantee’, with four trials in which participants who were not included in clubs still earned a small amount of money. In all conditions, clubs were frequently larger than was privately or collectively optimal; in the second condition, clubs were increasingly like...

2016

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Qualitative Report at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Qualitative Report by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks.

SAGE Research Methods Foundations (SRMF) , 2019

Membership categorisation analysis (MCA) is a qualitative sociological approach which studies membership categorisation practices—how social members achieve, use, and orient to membership categories in the process of performing some social action. Using a range of data including texts, talk-in-interaction, and video recordings, the approach focuses on unpacking members’ routine categorisation practices in everyday and institutional contexts. The approach provides qualitative researchers with a rigorous and data-led perspective to examine the way membership categorisation practices are used to achieve social actions in the contexts of their use. Through its commitment to naturalistic data, grounded observations, and flexibility in scope, MCA is able to also contribute to other disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, psychology, management studies, communication, cultural studies, politics and political media, gender studies, and social ...