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Youth sport and social capital : bleachers and boardrooms

Brown, Sean F., author

Overview

This text examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital, a cornerstone social science concept of the past 30 years. Social capital reflects the value of one's social networks, and the actual and potential benefits of relationships. Bringing together a team of kids for a season also brings together their families who all must negotiate this new social world. Within this world, relationships are bound to form, and these are the foundation upon which this project rests. Utilizing two years of fieldwork and over 30 interviews with parents and board members of a youth baseball league in the southwestern United States, this book provides an inside look at the beneficial relationships that can be found in the bleachers of a kids' baseball game, as well as the unseen, high-stakes games waged in the boardroom, where relationships can carry heavy costs as well.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Sports Sociological aspects. / Sports for children Social aspects. / Parent and child Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9780367186487

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GV706.5.B76 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE