Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 1-1-2012 Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army Jesse Harold Wagner Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Wagner, Jesse Harold, "Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army" (2012). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 937. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.937 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army by Jesse Harold Wagner A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology Thesis Committee: Veronica Dujon, Chair Daniel Sullivan Robert Liebman Portland State University ©2012 Abstract Soccer has a global reach and is entrenched in the lives of millions of people throughout the world, but the culture surrounding it is not as strong and never has been in the United States. Nonetheless, there is a recent emergence of American supporters groups that exhibit characteristics similar to those outside of the US. This ethnographic study focuses on one such group, the Timbers Army, to explore how they construct their own unique supporter identity and to understand how participants come to see the group relative to their understanding of the world at local and global levels.