Football Fans in the “Südkurve”: An Escape from the Pressure to Singularize?

Abstract With remarkable regularity, escalation processes in soccer stadiums lead to violence between police, private security guards, and fans. This article examines the question of how this happens what it means. In a consideration Reckwitz’s thesis society singularities, data from participant observation, interviews, video analysis is examined order address whether going games can be understood as temporary break compulsion individualize or singularize. addition, develops that does not constitute collapse social order, but rather predictable process which all participants consistently cooperate (Collins). Through ordered togetherness opposition, common ritual (Durkheim Turner) takes place, an always precarious walk up limits socially acceptable, also leads renewal social. Going stadiums, so my thesis, testing boundaries acceptable.