The Sports Experience of the Black College Athlete

Exploitation in the Academy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2379062
AutoresWilbert Marcellus Leonard (Illinois State University)
Año1986
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas35-49
Fecha de publicación1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269028602100103
OpenAlexW2008258732
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas9

The exploitation of college student-athletes, especially black ones, is a dominant theme in the American sport literature. The present research explores this motif as seen through the eyes of college basketball players (n = 505) performing at NCAA Divisions I, II, and III. The most provocative general finding is that discrepancies exist between the actors' and critics' definitions of the sport experience. In discussing the implications of the outcomes, several methodological (e.g., sport sampled, social desirability response set) and theoretical considerations (e.g., pluralistic ignorance, actors' vs. observers' perspectives and false consciousness) are raised

Athletes · Basketball · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ignorance · Sociology · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society