Red and blue association : A study of democracy in the association Orgryte Idrottssallskap in 1943–1960

This essay is about the circumstances of the sport association Orgryte Idrottssallskap (OIS) in the years 1943–1960. The purpose is to find out if the association can be called a democratic people's movement project by studying how the boards relationship to different groups like women, different social classes and political groups looked like and thereby problematizing how the association's relation to democratic integration and democratic ruling. The method used when studying the board’s meeting protocols from the years 1943–1960 is characterized as qualitative reading with hermeneutically inspired elements. The method is suitable for answering questions about Orgryte IS's relation to democratic integration and democratic ruling. The survey has shown that the association was not ruled democratically in the years 1943– 1960 and that the association had different approaches to different groups. Furthermore, the study has shown that economic conditions affected the association's opportunities to practice sports as well as the opportunities to have a democratic content. The study of the board’s meetings protocol has shown that the Second World War affected the associations work