Social capital and sport participation.
| dc.contributor.advisor | St. John, Craig, | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Carl, John David. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-16T12:18:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-16T12:18:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Children throughout the world are involved in many different activities. In the industrialized world children frequently spend their time involved in sports. In this study I investigate how social capital, as described by Coleman (1988), affects sport participation for elementary school age children. Focusing on three dependent variables, soccer participation, baseball/softball participation, and total sport participation, I explore how social capital differs by school and how these differences affect levels of participation for different sports. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | I use data gathered in 1998 with a sample size of 301. I test Coleman's (1988) theory of social capital. In the study I predict that soccer will be unique as compared to baseball/softball and all other sports combined in that it seems logical that it would require something special in order to get children involved. I make this hypothesis based on the fact that soccer is a relatively new introduction to the sport scene of the United States. Its popularity, then, might be linked to a type of word-of-mouth style of promotion and the family's interaction with others in the child's school. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study indicates that, indeed, soccer is different from baseball/softball and total sport participation. Family capital is moderated through school capital variables indicating that school attended significantly affects soccer participation, while family capital plays a much larger role in predicting participation in baseball/softball. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | x, 164 leaves : | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11244/532 | |
| dc.note | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-11, Section: A, page: 4097. | en_US |
| dc.note | Major Professor: Craig St. John. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Soccer for children United States Sociological aspects. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sports United States Sociological aspects. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sports for children United States Sociological aspects. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Soccer United States Sociological aspects. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social capital (Sociology) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociology, General. | en_US |
| dc.thesis.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Department of Sociology | en_US |
| dc.title | Social capital and sport participation. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Sociology | |
| ou.identifier | (UMI)AAI3070637 | en_US |
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