The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social network in the adaptation to the society based on the social network experienced in the process of desocialization and resocialization of ski players after the dropout.
For that, the issues ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social network in the adaptation to the society based on the social network experienced in the process of desocialization and resocialization of ski players after the dropout.
For that, the issues of this study were defined as follows:
First, what is the role of social network in the dropout of ski players?
Second, what is the role of the social network formation in the social and psychological reaction process after the dropout?
Third, what is the role of the social network formation in the process of adaptation to the society for resocialization?
Fifth, what is the role of the social network in the process of resocialization?
Therefore, theoretical reference framework was established on the basis of the social network theory of Barns(1977) by collecting the literatures related to the study of social network in order to shed light on the issues of this study, and qualitative research method most appropriate for this research was adopted. The subjects of this study were those who had both 5-year experience as sky players and over 5-year work experience at companies, etc, in society, who were selected through the purposeful sampling method.
From them, the data were collected through methods such as the narrative interview and telephone conversation. For the analysis of data, the coding, the initial conceptualization process, was conducted following the basic analysis process such as the transcription and memo works.
The 'subcategory' and 'core category of theme category' were derived through the method of difference, method of agreement, and simultaneous conversion method after systematically listing the implicit meaning of coded materials and selecting the theme.
The results derived through the data analysis were as follows:
The role of social network in the dropout of ski players was divided into the positional cause and relational cause on the basis of the social network theory.
First, the positional cause was found to encompass sports ability, injury, environment of winter sports, consideration of future career, and financial difficulty. Ski players drop out for reasons such as the lack of facilities, difficulties in the pursuit of professional ski career, climate factor which prevents continuous training throughout 4 seasons, relatively higher training cost compared to other sports, including the high cost of sports equipment and off-season training.
Second, the relational cause was found to include the problem of battering and the problematic relation with head couch and couches. The subjects of this study were found out to have dropped out mostly for reasons such as the difficulties in maintaining good relation which was attributable to the problematic relation with instructors, leaders, or senior colleagues, or battering.
In relation to the environment for domestic ski players, the ski sport has faced regional constraints, considering it has been vitalized only in some regions which suit the winter sports, and there have not been not many ski players across the country. In addition, the relationship among ski players have not been extensive because of the closed nature of elite players.
Thus, ski players may face constraints in forming various human relations with the school teachers who can become mentors to provide useful advice on future career or resolution of conflict with instructors and teammates, or in forming and maintaining interpersonal relationship with friends, senior colleagues in many different area, and this kind of problem has become the relational cause that leads to the ski players to drop out.
The role of social network in the social and psychological reaction after the dropout is the process in which the players would experience environmentally and psychologically without regard to their intention after giving up the sports, and is the psychological, realistic, and social reaction from the perspective of positional access in this study. It was divided into the cultural, psychological, and social reaction from the perspective of relational access.
The positional access of the subject of this study was as follows:
First, self-reflection was arisen psychologically from the need that they had to move beyond the position and environment of ski players and advance into the area other than the ski sports, and the fact that they were former ski players was expressed positively or negatively.
Second, they showed a realistic reaction of pondering upon extending their ski career in order to avoid realistic problems such as the military service or scholarship or advancement into new area, including acquisition of license, or admission into schools when they drop out.
Third, the social realm such as the ski techniques or knowledged related to the skiing - which had been formed and acquired through their former position as ski player - was shown as a social reaction like exploring the player career or related fields when they made preparation for resocialization.
In addition, the relational access of the subjects of this study was as follows:
First, the regional reaction was shown which was intended for the resocialization based on the relationship of regional culture among the subjects of this study, regarding the regional characteristics that the players are concentrated only in some specific regions in the case of ski sports significantly subject to the climate or regional features.
Second, ski players showed a psychological reaction which aimed to resolve their problems through the interpersonal relationship that they maintained with family, friends, colleagues, senior colleagues with regard to the social and psychological problems that they faced after the dropout.
Third, they showed a social reaction through the interchange with new people to find out those with social influence or explore other careers or seek other directions for the purpose of gaining various information in their attempt to adapt to new environment after the dropout.
The role of social network formation in the process of adaptation to the society through resocialization was divided into the one related to the psychological, realistic, and social change from the standpoint of positional access and the one associated with the psychological, social, cultural, and realistic change from the perspective of relational access in this study in connection with the network of access which focused on new environment, not the players, following the phase of social and psychological conflict after the dropout.
Based on the positional access of the subjects of this study, psychological change was shown among them, which aimed to adapt themselves to new environment with positive mindset toward the dropout with an emphasis on their experience, strength, motivation, including the desire to win, endurance, awareness of goal, etc, which they had developed through the first-hand experience during their previous sports activities when they were in new environment such as school, company, etc.
Second, the fact that they were former ski players had a positive or negative impact on their competition with others in the society. Thus, a social change occurred through the central interpersonal relationship or media-based relationship for strengthening or complementing their strength or weakness in their new area.
Third, the social prejudice or preconceived notion that they were former players had a negative effect on the interpersonal relationship in adapting themselves to new area, which resulted in difficulties in real situation.
Besides, the relational access among the subjects of this study indicated the followings:
First, the adaptation to new environment led them to undergo psychological change by re-establishing the viewpoint of value toward new area, like learning, working at companies, running business, etc, not the ideas and actions that they had acquired during their previous sports activities.
Second, the subjects of this study showed a social change by setting higher goals, meeting with many different people, and pursuing mutually beneficient relationship in fields other than ski sports.
Third, they showed a cultural change like embracing a wide range of cultures such as the corporate culture or school culture which was different from the culture of ski sports, and adapted themselves to the new culture.
Third, they showed change such as the acceptance of monetary matters, environmental, occupational, and vocational matters, which were related to the life of the subjects of study in reality.
The role of social network in the process of resocialization was divided into the social adaptation, psychological adaptation, cultural adaptation, and realistic adaptation, which shows what role the social network has played comprehensively in the psychological and social conflict confronted by the ski players, the subjects of this study, and points to the process of their advancement in new environment and resocialization after the dropout.
First, the social adaptation showed the social reaction among the subjects of this study in connection with the social and psychological reaction after the desocialization to overcome the psychological and social conflict through relational access such as their interpersonal relationship, as non-ski player, with their parents, friends, and those with social influence or experts in their career fields, or relationship with new people, based on the network related to the ski techniques or ski, by utilizing the positional access of ski players.
In addition, they formed media-based human relationship by forming interpersonal network with people in other fields based on their ski techniques and central interpersonal relationship which forms social network with important people through positional access that they have as former ski players when they adapt themselves to new environment.
First, the relational access in new environment helped establish the next goals as a member of new field, not a ski player, and form the interpersonal relationship in new field through the mutually beneficial interpersonal relationship.
Second, the psychological adaptation was based on the positional access through the self-reflection on their past life as former ski players and the relational access through social support of family, friends or close senior colleagues or junior colleagues in the process of psychological and social conflict.
In addition, they made the relational access through the positional access and reestablishment of viewpoint of value for the resocialization based on the positive mindset toward the dropout and retirement when they are adapting themselves to new environment. Third, the cultural adaptation helped overcome psychological and social conflict based on the relational access through regional factors unique to the ski players excluded from the process of the psychological and social conflict, and also helped form the interpersonal relationship through the relational access based on the acceptance of organizational culture of external culture when they are in the process of adapting themselves to new environment.
Fourth, they showed the positional access such as the acquisition of certificates, admission into school, ponderance on the extension of their ski career in the process of the psychological adaptation and the psychological and social conflict with regard to the adaptation to the reality, and showed the positional access - such as the negative interpersonal relationship in which the fact that they were former ski players had a negative impact on the formation of interpersonal relationship - and the relational access through the acceptance of vocation which embraces the life or work in new workplace regarding the process where they are adapting themselves to new environment.