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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"sociology of sport"”.
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"One Hundred Per Cent American": Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s
… the 1920s," provides a sociohistorical analysis of baseball and social attitudes and ideologies of the pre- and post-World War I period, specifically focusing on the joining of nationalism and masculinity through the playing of sport. My work explores amateur baseball in the context of the …
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Resisting gendered sport roles: A criminological sports analysis of women's rugby in the U.S.
<p>The passing of Title IX has allowed women of all ages to begin engaging with contact sports in the United States. Although growing, women's participation in contact sports remains adolescent in comparison to men's. The elements of physicality, masculinity, and gendered expression often …
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Sport and the state: ideology and practice
The focus of the study is the growing involvement of the British state in sport from the early 1960s to the mid to late 1980s. The thesis maintains that the close association of the organisation of sport with education shifted under government and business influence towards an instrumental welfare …
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Exploring the signalling potential of mega-sporting events : an analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
Mega-sporting events such as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil have been observed to serve as highly influential tools for the promotion of positive media impressions surrounding the host destination. Drawing from the …
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Dreams of Europe: The professionalisation of women’s football in Finland
… in visibility and popularity in recent years, offering increased professional opportunities to players in the most popular leagues, little is known about processes of professionalisation in countries not at the centre of this phenomenon. This thesis therefore takes as its subject the …
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A Decentralized Approach to Confront the Debasement of Black Male Student Athletes Who Attend PWI'S
<p>The debasement and "niggering " of Black male student athletes who attend PWI's is an issue that has been well documented since the mid to late sixties (Edwards, 1969, Olson, 1968). This population has been negatively stereotyped as being superior athletically, but inferior intellectually …
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Organized Sports Participation, Masculinity, and Attitudes toward Women
Sport is one institution in U.S. society that, through embedded patterns of behavior, may contribute to an ideology of acceptance concerning gender inequality. Organized sport participation, which has been historically reserved for men, incorporates young men and boys into an institution that has …
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NEGOTIATING GENDER ACCOUNTABILITY ACROSS CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF THE FORMER COLLEGE ATHLETE
The purpose of this dissertation is to uncover the nuanced ways individuals make sense of shifting gender accountability norms as they transition out of a unique social context and into broader U.S. society. This dissertation examines how 84 former Division I college athletes use the socialization …
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Improbable Dreams: A Qualitative Case Study Of Elite High School Football Players
This thesis is a qualitative case study of an elite high school football program in the American Southeast. I conducted twelve interviews with former players from Lake Kolofa High School to better understand how young men are socialized into pursuing elite levels of sport. Using the society …
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Elite athletes’ experiences of psychological distress: a discursive analysis of athlete identity in contexts in which athletes are vulnerable to experiencing psychopathology.
… have been reported to experience higher rates of various psychopathology, with the stress of competing at elite levels reported to exacerbate existing pathology (Brewer & Petrie, 1996). In particular, athletes have been noted to be susceptible to experiencing anxiety and depression during the …