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This chapter examines how men become popular within a bromantic culture. It highlights that a bawdy type of humor is the chief mechanism for gaining status. This serves alongside banter to promote social cohesion among the players on the team. The authors show that the concept of banter is the idea of making fun of one another in order to promote, not demote, a sense of cohesion. The chapter then highlights how banter varies from bullying in order to help nuance this social practice. The authors similarly show that proper socialization raises one’s popularity and that acts of aggression lower it. Finally, the authors found that one’s athletic status was not related to one’s popularity level, and that, ultimately, nobody was unpopular.
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Robinson, S., Anderson, E. (2022). Popularity and Banter in a Bromantic Culture. In: Bromance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98610-0_9
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