Adam Gemar
Biographic Data
| ID | 249078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Gemar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Gemar |
| SIGNATURE | GEMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3242-9149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport
This article examines public attitudes towards the media coverage of women’s sport in a context of recent growth but also continued inequality in both quantity and quality of coverage. Drawing from literature on the role of gender ideology in underpinning the unequal media treatment of women’s sport, we focus on ‘gender essentialist’ ideology as a predictor of attitudes. We draw on 2023 survey data from a national sample of U.S. adults ( N = 2032…
Gendered Relationships Between Sports Participation and Spectatorship
This study investigates the relationship between sports participation and spectatorship, two dimensions of sports engagement that have significant policy implications, by analyzing data from a 2016 nationwide UK survey (N = 1105). Scholarly research into this connection is relatively limited, especially when examined through a gendered lens. Discussing theoretical considerations of gender and the interrelations between direct sports participation…
The emerging cultural capital of cosmopolitan dispositions and political orientation: European soccer consumption in the United States
This study examines the following of European soccer leagues within the United States as a manifestation of emerging cultural capital and cosmopolitan dispositions. Utilizing Bourdieu and neo-Bourdieusian frameworks of cultural capital, it investigates how the consumption of European soccer leagues by Americans signifies new forms of social distinction, influenced by factors such as socioeconomic position, age, political orientation, and social a…
Religion and Social Capital in the United States: A Comparison of Different Types of Social Capital and Religious Engagement
Following, watching, and attending: Fandom of women's sport in the UK and USA
Women's sport has made rapid progress in visibility, and audiences for women's sport are growing. Yet little is known about who women's sport fans are, nor which sports are most popular. This article addresses this gap by leveraging data from two surveys conducted in 2023 and 2024 with adults in the USA ( N = 2032) and the UK ( N = 2302) to present a descriptive demographic profile of those who follow, watch, and attend elite-level women's sporti…
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust
Scholarship on sports following represents a burgeoning field of inquiry in the sociology of sport, yet sport following's connections to, or ability to facilitate, social capital remains underexplored. Drawing on a contemporary nationwide survey of the United States and employing the foundational theories of social capital by which we operationalize statistical analyses using regression modeling, this study investigates the nuanced contributions …
Parental Status Connection and Social Network Variety in Adulthood
This study enriches the literature on social networks and social capital by investigating how parental status potentially impacts social network diversity in adulthood. Using the 2018 iteration of the General Social Survey (GSS, n = 2348), a high quality nationally representative survey of the United States, we utilize latent class and regression analyses, finding that parental status, especially medium and cross-status occupational connections c…
Americans’ attitudes towards the U.S. women’s national soccer team
Socioeconomic position and sports in the US today: The Economic and Cultural Capital of Sports Followers
Purpose This study aims to explore the relationship between social class and sports following in the United States, addressing a gap in research that has largely overlooked spectator sports in sociocultural analyses. The paper seeks to be an expanded update on previous work focusing on how socioeconomic factors such as income and education interact with sports engagement. Design/methodology/approach Employing 2023 national survey data from the Un…
Institutional Trust, Spirituality, and Religious Practice in the United States
This study explores the relationship between institutional trust and elements of religion in contemporary American society. Using a nationally representative survey, we utilize latent class and regression analyses to assess the contours of these relationships. Our findings reveal a diverse institutional trust profile, with pronounced distrust in democratic institutions, especially Congress, although the group with low institutional trust is the s…
Religion and Loneliness: Investigating Different Aspects of Religion and Dimensions of Loneliness
This study explores the relationship between religiosity, spirituality, and loneliness in the United States, using the 2018 General Social Survey to assess their interactions against a backdrop of declining traditional religious affiliation and a rise in "spiritual but not religious" identification. It examines religion and spirituality's capacity to counteract loneliness, a condition with significant health implications. The analysis uncovers co…
Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK
Recent research into religion's intersection with social class, specifically in the UK, represents a conspicuous gap in recent scholarly work. I seek in this article to help fill this gap by focusing on the specific element of social capital. Adopting the lesser used lens of Bourdieu, and using a UK-wide survey, I measure various elements of social capital and employ advanced statistical methods to ascertain social capital composition for various…
Parental Influence and Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Belief, Attitudes, and Practices: Recent Evidence from the United States
A traditionally salient topic of empirical investigation in the sociology of religion, this paper seeks to offer a recent investigation into the intergenerational transmission of religion and the parental forms of religious engagement that predict adult engagement with religion. The study of this paper explores the intergenerational transmission of religion, focusing on the parental forms of religious identity and engagement that influence religi…
The measure of a fan: Social patterns of voracious sports following in Canada
Sociological studies on the manifestations and reproduction of inequality through cultural consumption have focused on few domains of culture and have mostly neglected intensity in consumption. Using large‐scale survey data about professional sports following in Canada, we investigate how socioeconomic position is associated with intensity of professional sports following (“voraciousness”). Our multinomial logistic regression analyses suggest tha…
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: Identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities
Scholarship on social class occupies a particular pedestal in British sociology. However, recent research into the connections between religion and social position is conspicuously absent. Using a UK-wide survey, I employ Bourdieu and various statistical methods to investigate the complex cultural capital compositions of various religious identities. The findings identify a four-group typology of cultural engagement. I also identify those holding…
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the 'feminization' of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers
Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding patterns of women's sporting consumption and historical trends in the potential growth of this fandom. Using large-scale survey data from Canada from 1990 through to 2015, and employing quantitative meth…
Sport as Culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption, and sports engagement in Canada
The consumption of culture has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. However, most work in this area has focused upon music and the arts. Sport is an important element of culture that can and should be studied in a similar fashion as others (Bourdieu, 1978). This thesis thus seeks to bring the theoretical frameworks and analytical tools of sociologies of culture further into the realm of sport. Substantively,…
Social capital networks in sports spectatorship and participation
The relationship between social capital and sport has been an increasing focus of scholarly literature in recent decades. However, very few of these studies consider social capital alongside theories of cultural consumption. Even fewer seek to assess the place of social capital in sports spectatorship. Taking primarily a Bourdieusian and neo-Bourdieusian theoretical approach, this study seeks to rectify these gaps by analysing three key component…
Cultural capital and emerging culture: The case of meditation, yoga, and vegetarianism in the UK
Yoga and meditation have experienced a boom in Western appropriation in recent decades and consistently grow more culturally ubiquitous. Likewise, rates of vegetarianism are quickly rising. However, little scholarly work has been produced around these newer forms upon the cultural landscape. Even less adopts a sociological perspective. This paper seeks to remedy this fact. It aims to advance understandings as to the patterns of consumption regard…
The social patterning of sport: Dispositions in regular sports participation and stratification in Canada
The participation in different forms of leisure has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. While some came before, this intellectual endeavour increased substantially with the seminal work of Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction. While Bourdieu’s writings on culture did not neglect sports, sport is often neglected in subsequent studies of culture. Most of the subsequent theoretical and empirical work on culture has f…
Simplistic policy, skewed consequences: Taking stock of English physical education, school sport and physical activity policy since 2013
The period from 2013 to 2019 was one of relative continuity in policies for physical education (PE), school sport and physical activity (PESSPA) in England. Starting from the advent of the government’s flagship PE and Sport Premium (PES Premium) initiative in 2013, the end of the period was reached 20 with renewed uncertainty in 2020 about the future of PESSPA policy. It is therefore an appropriate point for this article to ‘take stock’ of PESSPA…
Sport in broader leisure lifestyles: An analysis of the professional sport consumer's cultural engagement
Despite the prevalence of professional sport in contemporary societies, there is little known by academics about professional sports consumers. We know much more about other cultural domains, such as music and the arts. This study examines consumption and sport in Canada to further understand how patterns of sports consumption fit into broader leisure lifestyles. Through investigation of how five professional sports leagues in Canada are consumed…
Sport as culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption and sports participation in Canada
Cultural consumption writ large has had a prominent place in the sociological discipline since Pierre Bourdieu. While Bourdieu often considered sport in analyses of culture, there have since been relatively few studies that are focused on considering sport within the broader landscape of cultural consumption. This paper seeks to assess the place of sports participation within the cultural lifestyles of Canadians. To this end, this paper employs m…
The stratification of professional sports following: Social position and the consumption of major professional sports leagues in Canada
The existence, nature, and social make-up of the cultural omnivore has been a topic of consistent scholarly inquiry in recent decades. Studies exist examining these dynamics both across cultural fields (inter-domain) and fully within them (intra-domain). However, even as one of the most culturally salient domains of leisure, sport is often relegated to the side-lines of these debates. This study sets out to analyse the leisure ‘following’ of prof…
Which sports do you like? Testing intra-domain omnivorousness in Canadian following of professional sport
The theory of the cultural omnivore has been applied to many cultural domains. However, given the pervasiveness of professional sport in contemporary societies, less is known about omnivorous behaviour when it comes to consuming this cultural form. This study sets out to find if indeed there is an omnivorous consumption profile for professional sport. Using a latent class and regression analysis of survey data on five major professional sports le…
Sport as culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption and sports participation in Canada
Cultural consumption writ large has had a prominent place in the sociological discipline since Pierre Bourdieu. While Bourdieu often considered sport in analyses of culture, there have since been relatively few studies that are focused on considering sport within the broader landscape of cultural consumption. This paper seeks to assess the place of sports participation within the cultural lifestyles of Canadians. To this end, this paper employs m…
Social capital networks in sports spectatorship and participation
The relationship between social capital and sport has been an increasing focus of scholarly literature in recent decades. However, very few of these studies consider social capital alongside theories of cultural consumption. Even fewer seek to assess the place of social capital in sports spectatorship. Taking primarily a Bourdieusian and neo-Bourdieusian theoretical approach, this study seeks to rectify these gaps by analysing three key component…
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: Identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities
Scholarship on social class occupies a particular pedestal in British sociology. However, recent research into the connections between religion and social position is conspicuously absent. Using a UK-wide survey, I employ Bourdieu and various statistical methods to investigate the complex cultural capital compositions of various religious identities. The findings identify a four-group typology of cultural engagement. I also identify those holding…
The social patterning of sport: Dispositions in regular sports participation and stratification in Canada
The participation in different forms of leisure has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. While some came before, this intellectual endeavour increased substantially with the seminal work of Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction. While Bourdieu’s writings on culture did not neglect sports, sport is often neglected in subsequent studies of culture. Most of the subsequent theoretical and empirical work on culture has f…
The stratification of professional sports following: Social position and the consumption of major professional sports leagues in Canada
The existence, nature, and social make-up of the cultural omnivore has been a topic of consistent scholarly inquiry in recent decades. Studies exist examining these dynamics both across cultural fields (inter-domain) and fully within them (intra-domain). However, even as one of the most culturally salient domains of leisure, sport is often relegated to the side-lines of these debates. This study sets out to analyse the leisure ‘following’ of prof…
Which sports do you like? Testing intra-domain omnivorousness in Canadian following of professional sport
The theory of the cultural omnivore has been applied to many cultural domains. However, given the pervasiveness of professional sport in contemporary societies, less is known about omnivorous behaviour when it comes to consuming this cultural form. This study sets out to find if indeed there is an omnivorous consumption profile for professional sport. Using a latent class and regression analysis of survey data on five major professional sports le…
Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK
Recent research into religion's intersection with social class, specifically in the UK, represents a conspicuous gap in recent scholarly work. I seek in this article to help fill this gap by focusing on the specific element of social capital. Adopting the lesser used lens of Bourdieu, and using a UK-wide survey, I measure various elements of social capital and employ advanced statistical methods to ascertain social capital composition for various…
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the 'feminization' of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers
Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding patterns of women's sporting consumption and historical trends in the potential growth of this fandom. Using large-scale survey data from Canada from 1990 through to 2015, and employing quantitative meth…
Simplistic policy, skewed consequences: Taking stock of English physical education, school sport and physical activity policy since 2013
The period from 2013 to 2019 was one of relative continuity in policies for physical education (PE), school sport and physical activity (PESSPA) in England. Starting from the advent of the government’s flagship PE and Sport Premium (PES Premium) initiative in 2013, the end of the period was reached 20 with renewed uncertainty in 2020 about the future of PESSPA policy. It is therefore an appropriate point for this article to ‘take stock’ of PESSPA…
The measure of a fan: Social patterns of voracious sports following in Canada
Sociological studies on the manifestations and reproduction of inequality through cultural consumption have focused on few domains of culture and have mostly neglected intensity in consumption. Using large‐scale survey data about professional sports following in Canada, we investigate how socioeconomic position is associated with intensity of professional sports following (“voraciousness”). Our multinomial logistic regression analyses suggest tha…
Americans’ attitudes towards the U.S. women’s national soccer team
Institutional Trust, Spirituality, and Religious Practice in the United States
This study explores the relationship between institutional trust and elements of religion in contemporary American society. Using a nationally representative survey, we utilize latent class and regression analyses to assess the contours of these relationships. Our findings reveal a diverse institutional trust profile, with pronounced distrust in democratic institutions, especially Congress, although the group with low institutional trust is the s…
Sport as Culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption, and sports engagement in Canada
The consumption of culture has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. However, most work in this area has focused upon music and the arts. Sport is an important element of culture that can and should be studied in a similar fashion as others (Bourdieu, 1978). This thesis thus seeks to bring the theoretical frameworks and analytical tools of sociologies of culture further into the realm of sport. Substantively,…
Sport in broader leisure lifestyles: An analysis of the professional sport consumer's cultural engagement
Despite the prevalence of professional sport in contemporary societies, there is little known by academics about professional sports consumers. We know much more about other cultural domains, such as music and the arts. This study examines consumption and sport in Canada to further understand how patterns of sports consumption fit into broader leisure lifestyles. Through investigation of how five professional sports leagues in Canada are consumed…
Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport
This article examines public attitudes towards the media coverage of women’s sport in a context of recent growth but also continued inequality in both quantity and quality of coverage. Drawing from literature on the role of gender ideology in underpinning the unequal media treatment of women’s sport, we focus on ‘gender essentialist’ ideology as a predictor of attitudes. We draw on 2023 survey data from a national sample of U.S. adults ( N = 2032…
The stratification of professional sports following: Social position and the consumption of major professional sports leagues in Canada
The existence, nature, and social make-up of the cultural omnivore has been a topic of consistent scholarly inquiry in recent decades. Studies exist examining these dynamics both across cultural fields (inter-domain) and fully within them (intra-domain). However, even as one of the most culturally salient domains of leisure, sport is often relegated to the side-lines of these debates. This study sets out to analyse the leisure ‘following’ of prof…
Which sports do you like? Testing intra-domain omnivorousness in Canadian following of professional sport
The theory of the cultural omnivore has been applied to many cultural domains. However, given the pervasiveness of professional sport in contemporary societies, less is known about omnivorous behaviour when it comes to consuming this cultural form. This study sets out to find if indeed there is an omnivorous consumption profile for professional sport. Using a latent class and regression analysis of survey data on five major professional sports le…
Cultural capital and emerging culture: The case of meditation, yoga, and vegetarianism in the UK
Yoga and meditation have experienced a boom in Western appropriation in recent decades and consistently grow more culturally ubiquitous. Likewise, rates of vegetarianism are quickly rising. However, little scholarly work has been produced around these newer forms upon the cultural landscape. Even less adopts a sociological perspective. This paper seeks to remedy this fact. It aims to advance understandings as to the patterns of consumption regard…
The social patterning of sport: Dispositions in regular sports participation and stratification in Canada
The participation in different forms of leisure has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. While some came before, this intellectual endeavour increased substantially with the seminal work of Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction. While Bourdieu’s writings on culture did not neglect sports, sport is often neglected in subsequent studies of culture. Most of the subsequent theoretical and empirical work on culture has f…
Simplistic policy, skewed consequences: Taking stock of English physical education, school sport and physical activity policy since 2013
The period from 2013 to 2019 was one of relative continuity in policies for physical education (PE), school sport and physical activity (PESSPA) in England. Starting from the advent of the government’s flagship PE and Sport Premium (PES Premium) initiative in 2013, the end of the period was reached 20 with renewed uncertainty in 2020 about the future of PESSPA policy. It is therefore an appropriate point for this article to ‘take stock’ of PESSPA…
Sport in broader leisure lifestyles: An analysis of the professional sport consumer's cultural engagement
Despite the prevalence of professional sport in contemporary societies, there is little known by academics about professional sports consumers. We know much more about other cultural domains, such as music and the arts. This study examines consumption and sport in Canada to further understand how patterns of sports consumption fit into broader leisure lifestyles. Through investigation of how five professional sports leagues in Canada are consumed…
Sport as culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption and sports participation in Canada
Cultural consumption writ large has had a prominent place in the sociological discipline since Pierre Bourdieu. While Bourdieu often considered sport in analyses of culture, there have since been relatively few studies that are focused on considering sport within the broader landscape of cultural consumption. This paper seeks to assess the place of sports participation within the cultural lifestyles of Canadians. To this end, this paper employs m…
Sport as Culture: Social class, styles of cultural consumption, and sports engagement in Canada
The consumption of culture has often been ascribed the power to reflect and reproduce social inequalities. However, most work in this area has focused upon music and the arts. Sport is an important element of culture that can and should be studied in a similar fashion as others (Bourdieu, 1978). This thesis thus seeks to bring the theoretical frameworks and analytical tools of sociologies of culture further into the realm of sport. Substantively,…
Social capital networks in sports spectatorship and participation
The relationship between social capital and sport has been an increasing focus of scholarly literature in recent decades. However, very few of these studies consider social capital alongside theories of cultural consumption. Even fewer seek to assess the place of social capital in sports spectatorship. Taking primarily a Bourdieusian and neo-Bourdieusian theoretical approach, this study seeks to rectify these gaps by analysing three key component…
The measure of a fan: Social patterns of voracious sports following in Canada
Sociological studies on the manifestations and reproduction of inequality through cultural consumption have focused on few domains of culture and have mostly neglected intensity in consumption. Using large‐scale survey data about professional sports following in Canada, we investigate how socioeconomic position is associated with intensity of professional sports following (“voraciousness”). Our multinomial logistic regression analyses suggest tha…
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: Identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities
Scholarship on social class occupies a particular pedestal in British sociology. However, recent research into the connections between religion and social position is conspicuously absent. Using a UK-wide survey, I employ Bourdieu and various statistical methods to investigate the complex cultural capital compositions of various religious identities. The findings identify a four-group typology of cultural engagement. I also identify those holding…
Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the 'feminization' of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers
Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding patterns of women's sporting consumption and historical trends in the potential growth of this fandom. Using large-scale survey data from Canada from 1990 through to 2015, and employing quantitative meth…
Parental Influence and Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Belief, Attitudes, and Practices: Recent Evidence from the United States
A traditionally salient topic of empirical investigation in the sociology of religion, this paper seeks to offer a recent investigation into the intergenerational transmission of religion and the parental forms of religious engagement that predict adult engagement with religion. The study of this paper explores the intergenerational transmission of religion, focusing on the parental forms of religious identity and engagement that influence religi…
Parental Status Connection and Social Network Variety in Adulthood
This study enriches the literature on social networks and social capital by investigating how parental status potentially impacts social network diversity in adulthood. Using the 2018 iteration of the General Social Survey (GSS, n = 2348), a high quality nationally representative survey of the United States, we utilize latent class and regression analyses, finding that parental status, especially medium and cross-status occupational connections c…
Americans’ attitudes towards the U.S. women’s national soccer team
Socioeconomic position and sports in the US today: The Economic and Cultural Capital of Sports Followers
Purpose This study aims to explore the relationship between social class and sports following in the United States, addressing a gap in research that has largely overlooked spectator sports in sociocultural analyses. The paper seeks to be an expanded update on previous work focusing on how socioeconomic factors such as income and education interact with sports engagement. Design/methodology/approach Employing 2023 national survey data from the Un…
Institutional Trust, Spirituality, and Religious Practice in the United States
This study explores the relationship between institutional trust and elements of religion in contemporary American society. Using a nationally representative survey, we utilize latent class and regression analyses to assess the contours of these relationships. Our findings reveal a diverse institutional trust profile, with pronounced distrust in democratic institutions, especially Congress, although the group with low institutional trust is the s…
Religion and Loneliness: Investigating Different Aspects of Religion and Dimensions of Loneliness
This study explores the relationship between religiosity, spirituality, and loneliness in the United States, using the 2018 General Social Survey to assess their interactions against a backdrop of declining traditional religious affiliation and a rise in "spiritual but not religious" identification. It examines religion and spirituality's capacity to counteract loneliness, a condition with significant health implications. The analysis uncovers co…
Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK
Recent research into religion's intersection with social class, specifically in the UK, represents a conspicuous gap in recent scholarly work. I seek in this article to help fill this gap by focusing on the specific element of social capital. Adopting the lesser used lens of Bourdieu, and using a UK-wide survey, I measure various elements of social capital and employ advanced statistical methods to ascertain social capital composition for various…
Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport
This article examines public attitudes towards the media coverage of women’s sport in a context of recent growth but also continued inequality in both quantity and quality of coverage. Drawing from literature on the role of gender ideology in underpinning the unequal media treatment of women’s sport, we focus on ‘gender essentialist’ ideology as a predictor of attitudes. We draw on 2023 survey data from a national sample of U.S. adults ( N = 2032…
Gendered Relationships Between Sports Participation and Spectatorship
This study investigates the relationship between sports participation and spectatorship, two dimensions of sports engagement that have significant policy implications, by analyzing data from a 2016 nationwide UK survey (N = 1105). Scholarly research into this connection is relatively limited, especially when examined through a gendered lens. Discussing theoretical considerations of gender and the interrelations between direct sports participation…
The emerging cultural capital of cosmopolitan dispositions and political orientation: European soccer consumption in the United States
This study examines the following of European soccer leagues within the United States as a manifestation of emerging cultural capital and cosmopolitan dispositions. Utilizing Bourdieu and neo-Bourdieusian frameworks of cultural capital, it investigates how the consumption of European soccer leagues by Americans signifies new forms of social distinction, influenced by factors such as socioeconomic position, age, political orientation, and social a…
Religion and Social Capital in the United States: A Comparison of Different Types of Social Capital and Religious Engagement
Following, watching, and attending: Fandom of women's sport in the UK and USA
Women's sport has made rapid progress in visibility, and audiences for women's sport are growing. Yet little is known about who women's sport fans are, nor which sports are most popular. This article addresses this gap by leveraging data from two surveys conducted in 2023 and 2024 with adults in the USA ( N = 2032) and the UK ( N = 2302) to present a descriptive demographic profile of those who follow, watch, and attend elite-level women's sporti…
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust
Scholarship on sports following represents a burgeoning field of inquiry in the sociology of sport, yet sport following's connections to, or ability to facilitate, social capital remains underexplored. Drawing on a contemporary nationwide survey of the United States and employing the foundational theories of social capital by which we operationalize statistical analyses using regression modeling, this study investigates the nuanced contributions …
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 works) · Social science (14 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (12 works) · Social capital (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Cultural capital (6 works)