Sean F. Brown

Youth Sport and Social Capital (eBook, ePUB)

Bleachers and Boardrooms

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital, a cornerstone social science concept of the past 30 years. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429588976
• Artikelnr.: 59571629

Autorenporträt

Sean F. Brown is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Sport Management Department of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. He is currently an Associate Editor of Sport in Society; an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. His research interests include social capital and sport and education, soccer in the United States, and youth sport parents.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: youth sport and social capital 2. Mechanisms of social
capital creation and consumption in a youth baseball league 3. What
resources do parents exchange in the VCLL? 4. Benefactors and beneficiaries
in social capital exchanges 5. The curious case of child care: an anomaly
within social capital exchange motives in a youth sport organization
6. From the kids to 'The Kids' - the development of negative social capital
I a Little League Baseball organization 7. Epilogue: a discussion of the
connections between youth sport and social capital 8. Appendix: the
structure of the VCLL