'People care about building the community here': Enacting community in a women’s recreational soccer group

摘要

This qualitative study uses the bona fide group perspective to explore how members ofa recreational soccer group communicatively enact their sport community. The groupconsists of women who meet weekly to play soccer together. Interviews and documentanalysis show that the women manage group boundaries and context through enactingalternative values, reinforcing discursive contrasts, and negotiating bounded inclusivity.These strategies establish the group as a recreational, supportive communitybased on friendship and compassion that is an alternative to hyper-masculine competitivesports. This study has implications for future research on life enrichment groups,particularly those organized by women.