Howard L Nixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 250300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard L Nixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nixon |
| SIGNATURE | NIXON H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Appalachian State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Sport in a Changing World
In a stressful, turbulent world, sports can be an escape from reality. Yet sport actually mirrors the issues and problems of our world today, bearing the imprint of powerful forces of social change. This book offers a sociological perspective for seeing and understanding the place of sport in society and how it is affected by big business and by demographic, cultural, organizational, economic, political, and technological change. Nixon's main foc…
The Star Wars Arms Race in College Athletics: Coaches’ Pay and Athletic Program Status
This study focuses on a 'star wars arms race' concerning escalating head coaches' salaries in the biggest of the big-time college sports in the United States, football and men's basketball. Data are presented from six seasons since 2003 testing the assumption that paying top salaries to coaches assures or improves success on the field and in the rankings. The data concerning rankings and mobility into and out of the 'Top 25' for teams with the to…
Sport Sociology, NASSS, and Undergraduate Education in the United States: A Social Network Perspective for Developing the Field
There has been no research about the prevalence of undergraduate sport sociology courses or about the links between NASSS and the institutions and faculty offering these courses. This article begins to fill this research gap. It uses a social network perspective to show how NASSS is connected to the “idea space” of undergraduate sport sociology courses in the U.S. and to the “social space” of institutions and instructors offering these courses. T…
Disability Sport
Disability sport refers to any form of organized physical competition intended specifically for people with disabilities and contrasts with able‐bodied or mainstream sport, which is organized for people without disabilities. The historical lack of mainstream sports opportunities for people with disabilities is one of the important rationales for the development of disability sport. People are considered disabled, e.g., regarding physical mobility…
Constructing Diverse Sports Opportunities for People With Disabilities
This article examines what the concept of sport without disability might mean in the structuring of sports and sports settings to accommodate the participation of people with disabilities as serious competitors. Two of its main purposes are (a) to provide a lens for thinking about sports opportunities for people with disabilities that are strongly filtered by considerations of structure, choice, and fairness and (b) to suggest a set of sports mod…
Response to Martin Roderick’s Comment on the Work of Howard L. Nixon II
Gender, Sport, and Aggressive Behavior Outside Sport
This study focuses on how sports attitudes and participation relate to physical aggression outside sport for college athletes. Data were derived from a survey of nearly 200 male and female athletes at a medium-size (11,500-student) comprehensive university. Physical aggression was measured by an item concerning whether the respondents ever physically harmed or injured other persons outside sport in fights or disagreements. Although exploratory, t…
The Relationship of Friendship Networks, Sports Experiences, and Gender to Expressed Pain Thresholds
Explaining Pain and Injury Attitudes and Experiences in Sport in Terms of Gender, Race, and Sports Status Factors
This article presents data from a survey of college athletes in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletic program showing how well gender, race, and 4 sports status variables (team or individual sports participation, contact or noncontact sports participation, status as a lineup regular, and status as an athletic scholarship holder) explain differences in sports-related pain and injury attitudes and experiences. Attitu…
Coaches’ Views of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport, with Special Reference to Gender Differences
The main purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which college coaches subscribe to a set of beliefs in the culture of sport concerning risk, pain, and injury. These beliefs were derived from a prior content analysis of Sports Illustrated . A secondary purpose of this paper is to consider whether gender makes a difference in how coaches think about risk, pain, and injury. The data are from a survey of coaches at a medium-size (11,500-s…
Social Pressure, Social Support, and Help Seeking for Pain and Injuries in College Sports Networks
Using data from a survey of college athletes in an NCAA Division I athletic program, this article shows how interaction with significant others (coaches, teammates, and athletic trainers or physical therapists) in a campus sports network, social status (gender and race), status in sport (holding an athletic scholarship), and the structure of a sport (individual or team sport) affect the pain and injury behavior of athletes. The dependent variable…
A Normal Science Imperative for Sport Sociology: Issues of Objectivity, Bias, and Knowing
Accepting the Risks of Pain and Injury in Sport: Mediated Cultural Influences on Playing Hurt
This paper considers the nature and implications of cultural messages about risk, pain, injury, and comebacks in sport that are mediated by a popular American sports magazine. The analysis is based on evidence from a content analysis of Sports Illustrated articles, the results of which suggest that athletes are exposed to a set of mediated beliefs about structural constraints, structural inducements, general cultural values, and processes of inst…
Social Network Analysis of Sport: Emphasizing Social Structure in Sport Sociology
The purpose of this paper is to focus more attention on the potential value of a structural social network approach for understanding social interaction, relationships, structures, and change in sport. Despite growing interest in this approach in sociology in general, little attention has been paid to it by sport sociologists. Examples of applications to sport are presented concerning the study of pain and injury, small groups and subcultures, or…
The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America
The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community
A Social Network Analysys of Influences On Athletes To Play With Pain and Injuries
This paper shows how structural social network analysis can be a potentially powerful way of conceptualizing and explaining athletes' acceptance of the risks of pain and injury in sport. In particular, this paper shows how concepts and assumptions from structural social network analysis can clarify the conditions that make athletes vulnerable to cultural and interpersonal messages exhorting or encouraging them to play with pain and injuries. It i…
Sport Sociology That Matters: Imperatives and Challenges for the 1990s
The development of “a sport sociology that matters” requires sport sociologists to confront and make fundamental decisions about major imperatives and challenges that implicitly or explicitly can be found in recent work in the field. Five major imperatives are discussed: the relevance imperative, the cultural interpretive imperative, the critical imperative, the engagement imperative, and the application imperative. While the list is not assumed …
Rethinking Socialization and Sport
The study of socialization in sport sociology has been heavily influenced by structural-functional perspectives. Recently, Ralph Turner proposed a theoretical framework, based on a 'much-circumscribed functionalism,' for integrating diverse and historically important approaches to the individual in society. This framework is proposed here as a point of departure for the integration and advancement of sport socialization analysis and research. Aft…
A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports
Reconsidering Obligatory Running and Anorexia Nervosa as Gender-Related Problems of Identity and Role Adjustment
A recent study by Yates, Leehey, and Shisslak (1983) noted the dramatic increase of serious runners in the previous decade, and the authors argued on the basis of their research that serious runners shared important character, adaptive, and background qualities with anorexics. This paper extends and refines the researchers' analysis of their findings by examining the possible origins of these obsessions in gender-related problems of identity and …
Social Order in a Leisure Setting: The Case of Recreational Swimmers in a Pool
Firsthand observations of recreational swimmers in a university pool are used to show how leisure participants, informally and largely nonverbally, structure and maintain their interaction in predictable and sociable patterns. The paper builds on these observations to show the kinds of social norms, statuses, and roles that constitute basic elements of social structure in the leisure setting of a pool, and it examines how regular leisure particip…
Organizational Subversion in Voluntary Rehabilitation Associations for Disabled People
The Creation of Appropriate Integration Opportunities in Sport for Disabled and Nondisabled People: A Guide for Research and Action
Despite the stigma usually attached to disabled people, and the attendant difficulty in picturing disabled people in “normal” societal roles interacting and competing with nondisabled people, a mandate for integrating disabled and nondisabled people in all areas of society has been thrust upon Americans during the past decade through judicial, legal, and social pressures and political action. This paper focuses on the appropriate integration of d…
Idealized Functions of Sport: Religious and Political Socialization Through Sport
This article focuses on the purported functioning of sport as a 'symbolic refuge' in American society. In particular the paper considers the extent to which acceptance of the established structure of American sport and two dimensions of sports involvement are associated with religious conviction and political conservatism. Faith in God and in tradi tional American values and institutions are two consequences of involvement in sport claimed by the…
A Social Network Analysys of Influences On Athletes To Play With Pain and Injuries
This paper shows how structural social network analysis can be a potentially powerful way of conceptualizing and explaining athletes' acceptance of the risks of pain and injury in sport. In particular, this paper shows how concepts and assumptions from structural social network analysis can clarify the conditions that make athletes vulnerable to cultural and interpersonal messages exhorting or encouraging them to play with pain and injuries. It i…
Accepting the Risks of Pain and Injury in Sport: Mediated Cultural Influences on Playing Hurt
This paper considers the nature and implications of cultural messages about risk, pain, injury, and comebacks in sport that are mediated by a popular American sports magazine. The analysis is based on evidence from a content analysis of Sports Illustrated articles, the results of which suggest that athletes are exposed to a set of mediated beliefs about structural constraints, structural inducements, general cultural values, and processes of inst…
Coaches’ Views of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport, with Special Reference to Gender Differences
The main purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which college coaches subscribe to a set of beliefs in the culture of sport concerning risk, pain, and injury. These beliefs were derived from a prior content analysis of Sports Illustrated . A secondary purpose of this paper is to consider whether gender makes a difference in how coaches think about risk, pain, and injury. The data are from a survey of coaches at a medium-size (11,500-s…
Gender, Sport, and Aggressive Behavior Outside Sport
This study focuses on how sports attitudes and participation relate to physical aggression outside sport for college athletes. Data were derived from a survey of nearly 200 male and female athletes at a medium-size (11,500-student) comprehensive university. Physical aggression was measured by an item concerning whether the respondents ever physically harmed or injured other persons outside sport in fights or disagreements. Although exploratory, t…
Explaining Pain and Injury Attitudes and Experiences in Sport in Terms of Gender, Race, and Sports Status Factors
This article presents data from a survey of college athletes in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletic program showing how well gender, race, and 4 sports status variables (team or individual sports participation, contact or noncontact sports participation, status as a lineup regular, and status as an athletic scholarship holder) explain differences in sports-related pain and injury attitudes and experiences. Attitu…
Social Pressure, Social Support, and Help Seeking for Pain and Injuries in College Sports Networks
Using data from a survey of college athletes in an NCAA Division I athletic program, this article shows how interaction with significant others (coaches, teammates, and athletic trainers or physical therapists) in a campus sports network, social status (gender and race), status in sport (holding an athletic scholarship), and the structure of a sport (individual or team sport) affect the pain and injury behavior of athletes. The dependent variable…
The Relationship of Friendship Networks, Sports Experiences, and Gender to Expressed Pain Thresholds
Sport Sociology That Matters: Imperatives and Challenges for the 1990s
The development of “a sport sociology that matters” requires sport sociologists to confront and make fundamental decisions about major imperatives and challenges that implicitly or explicitly can be found in recent work in the field. Five major imperatives are discussed: the relevance imperative, the cultural interpretive imperative, the critical imperative, the engagement imperative, and the application imperative. While the list is not assumed …
Social Network Analysis of Sport: Emphasizing Social Structure in Sport Sociology
The purpose of this paper is to focus more attention on the potential value of a structural social network approach for understanding social interaction, relationships, structures, and change in sport. Despite growing interest in this approach in sociology in general, little attention has been paid to it by sport sociologists. Examples of applications to sport are presented concerning the study of pain and injury, small groups and subcultures, or…
Constructing Diverse Sports Opportunities for People With Disabilities
This article examines what the concept of sport without disability might mean in the structuring of sports and sports settings to accommodate the participation of people with disabilities as serious competitors. Two of its main purposes are (a) to provide a lens for thinking about sports opportunities for people with disabilities that are strongly filtered by considerations of structure, choice, and fairness and (b) to suggest a set of sports mod…
Rethinking Socialization and Sport
The study of socialization in sport sociology has been heavily influenced by structural-functional perspectives. Recently, Ralph Turner proposed a theoretical framework, based on a 'much-circumscribed functionalism,' for integrating diverse and historically important approaches to the individual in society. This framework is proposed here as a point of departure for the integration and advancement of sport socialization analysis and research. Aft…
The Star Wars Arms Race in College Athletics: Coaches’ Pay and Athletic Program Status
This study focuses on a 'star wars arms race' concerning escalating head coaches' salaries in the biggest of the big-time college sports in the United States, football and men's basketball. Data are presented from six seasons since 2003 testing the assumption that paying top salaries to coaches assures or improves success on the field and in the rankings. The data concerning rankings and mobility into and out of the 'Top 25' for teams with the to…
Social Order in a Leisure Setting: The Case of Recreational Swimmers in a Pool
Firsthand observations of recreational swimmers in a university pool are used to show how leisure participants, informally and largely nonverbally, structure and maintain their interaction in predictable and sociable patterns. The paper builds on these observations to show the kinds of social norms, statuses, and roles that constitute basic elements of social structure in the leisure setting of a pool, and it examines how regular leisure particip…
Sport Sociology, NASSS, and Undergraduate Education in the United States: A Social Network Perspective for Developing the Field
There has been no research about the prevalence of undergraduate sport sociology courses or about the links between NASSS and the institutions and faculty offering these courses. This article begins to fill this research gap. It uses a social network perspective to show how NASSS is connected to the “idea space” of undergraduate sport sociology courses in the U.S. and to the “social space” of institutions and instructors offering these courses. T…
Response to Martin Roderick’s Comment on the Work of Howard L. Nixon II
Reconsidering Obligatory Running and Anorexia Nervosa as Gender-Related Problems of Identity and Role Adjustment
A recent study by Yates, Leehey, and Shisslak (1983) noted the dramatic increase of serious runners in the previous decade, and the authors argued on the basis of their research that serious runners shared important character, adaptive, and background qualities with anorexics. This paper extends and refines the researchers' analysis of their findings by examining the possible origins of these obsessions in gender-related problems of identity and …
Idealized Functions of Sport: Religious and Political Socialization Through Sport
This article focuses on the purported functioning of sport as a 'symbolic refuge' in American society. In particular the paper considers the extent to which acceptance of the established structure of American sport and two dimensions of sports involvement are associated with religious conviction and political conservatism. Faith in God and in tradi tional American values and institutions are two consequences of involvement in sport claimed by the…
Disability Sport
Disability sport refers to any form of organized physical competition intended specifically for people with disabilities and contrasts with able‐bodied or mainstream sport, which is organized for people without disabilities. The historical lack of mainstream sports opportunities for people with disabilities is one of the important rationales for the development of disability sport. People are considered disabled, e.g., regarding physical mobility…
A Normal Science Imperative for Sport Sociology: Issues of Objectivity, Bias, and Knowing
The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community
Organizational Subversion in Voluntary Rehabilitation Associations for Disabled People
The Creation of Appropriate Integration Opportunities in Sport for Disabled and Nondisabled People: A Guide for Research and Action
Despite the stigma usually attached to disabled people, and the attendant difficulty in picturing disabled people in “normal” societal roles interacting and competing with nondisabled people, a mandate for integrating disabled and nondisabled people in all areas of society has been thrust upon Americans during the past decade through judicial, legal, and social pressures and political action. This paper focuses on the appropriate integration of d…
Faculty Support of Traditional Labor Tactics on Campus
senior faculty in the more technical fields. Like senior faculty members in the less technical disciplines, the receptiveness of both junior and senior faculty members in the more technical fields was limited. These results are explained mainly in terms of general political orientation and the perceived range of comparable alternative employment opportunities
The Commercial and Organizational Development of Modern Sport
Sport and Society: An Anthology
Faculty Support of Traditional Labor Tactics on Campus
senior faculty in the more technical fields. Like senior faculty members in the less technical disciplines, the receptiveness of both junior and senior faculty members in the more technical fields was limited. These results are explained mainly in terms of general political orientation and the perceived range of comparable alternative employment opportunities
Growing up with Hockey in Canada
Reinforcement Effects of Sports Team Success Cohesiveness-Related Factors
This article attempts to resolve some of the apparent contradictions and ambigui ty characterizing the current state of knowledge regarding sports team success and cohesiveness. A theoretical model is constructed to clarify the meaning of past findings in this area and to serve as a basis for generating the specific hypotheses tested in the research reported here. These hypotheses concern relationships between past competitive success of sports t…
Sport and Social Organization
Sport and Social Organization
The Small Group
Idealized Functions of Sport: Religious and Political Socialization Through Sport
This article focuses on the purported functioning of sport as a 'symbolic refuge' in American society. In particular the paper considers the extent to which acceptance of the established structure of American sport and two dimensions of sports involvement are associated with religious conviction and political conservatism. Faith in God and in tradi tional American values and institutions are two consequences of involvement in sport claimed by the…
The Creation of Appropriate Integration Opportunities in Sport for Disabled and Nondisabled People: A Guide for Research and Action
Despite the stigma usually attached to disabled people, and the attendant difficulty in picturing disabled people in “normal” societal roles interacting and competing with nondisabled people, a mandate for integrating disabled and nondisabled people in all areas of society has been thrust upon Americans during the past decade through judicial, legal, and social pressures and political action. This paper focuses on the appropriate integration of d…
Organizational Subversion in Voluntary Rehabilitation Associations for Disabled People
Social Order in a Leisure Setting: The Case of Recreational Swimmers in a Pool
Firsthand observations of recreational swimmers in a university pool are used to show how leisure participants, informally and largely nonverbally, structure and maintain their interaction in predictable and sociable patterns. The paper builds on these observations to show the kinds of social norms, statuses, and roles that constitute basic elements of social structure in the leisure setting of a pool, and it examines how regular leisure particip…
A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports
Reconsidering Obligatory Running and Anorexia Nervosa as Gender-Related Problems of Identity and Role Adjustment
A recent study by Yates, Leehey, and Shisslak (1983) noted the dramatic increase of serious runners in the previous decade, and the authors argued on the basis of their research that serious runners shared important character, adaptive, and background qualities with anorexics. This paper extends and refines the researchers' analysis of their findings by examining the possible origins of these obsessions in gender-related problems of identity and …
Rethinking Socialization and Sport
The study of socialization in sport sociology has been heavily influenced by structural-functional perspectives. Recently, Ralph Turner proposed a theoretical framework, based on a 'much-circumscribed functionalism,' for integrating diverse and historically important approaches to the individual in society. This framework is proposed here as a point of departure for the integration and advancement of sport socialization analysis and research. Aft…
Sport Sociology That Matters: Imperatives and Challenges for the 1990s
The development of “a sport sociology that matters” requires sport sociologists to confront and make fundamental decisions about major imperatives and challenges that implicitly or explicitly can be found in recent work in the field. Five major imperatives are discussed: the relevance imperative, the cultural interpretive imperative, the critical imperative, the engagement imperative, and the application imperative. While the list is not assumed …
A Social Network Analysys of Influences On Athletes To Play With Pain and Injuries
This paper shows how structural social network analysis can be a potentially powerful way of conceptualizing and explaining athletes' acceptance of the risks of pain and injury in sport. In particular, this paper shows how concepts and assumptions from structural social network analysis can clarify the conditions that make athletes vulnerable to cultural and interpersonal messages exhorting or encouraging them to play with pain and injuries. It i…
Accepting the Risks of Pain and Injury in Sport: Mediated Cultural Influences on Playing Hurt
This paper considers the nature and implications of cultural messages about risk, pain, injury, and comebacks in sport that are mediated by a popular American sports magazine. The analysis is based on evidence from a content analysis of Sports Illustrated articles, the results of which suggest that athletes are exposed to a set of mediated beliefs about structural constraints, structural inducements, general cultural values, and processes of inst…
Social Network Analysis of Sport: Emphasizing Social Structure in Sport Sociology
The purpose of this paper is to focus more attention on the potential value of a structural social network approach for understanding social interaction, relationships, structures, and change in sport. Despite growing interest in this approach in sociology in general, little attention has been paid to it by sport sociologists. Examples of applications to sport are presented concerning the study of pain and injury, small groups and subcultures, or…
The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America
The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community
Coaches’ Views of Risk, Pain, and Injury in Sport, with Special Reference to Gender Differences
The main purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which college coaches subscribe to a set of beliefs in the culture of sport concerning risk, pain, and injury. These beliefs were derived from a prior content analysis of Sports Illustrated . A secondary purpose of this paper is to consider whether gender makes a difference in how coaches think about risk, pain, and injury. The data are from a survey of coaches at a medium-size (11,500-s…
Social Pressure, Social Support, and Help Seeking for Pain and Injuries in College Sports Networks
Using data from a survey of college athletes in an NCAA Division I athletic program, this article shows how interaction with significant others (coaches, teammates, and athletic trainers or physical therapists) in a campus sports network, social status (gender and race), status in sport (holding an athletic scholarship), and the structure of a sport (individual or team sport) affect the pain and injury behavior of athletes. The dependent variable…
A Normal Science Imperative for Sport Sociology: Issues of Objectivity, Bias, and Knowing
The Relationship of Friendship Networks, Sports Experiences, and Gender to Expressed Pain Thresholds
Political science (21 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (16 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Business (8 works) · Physical therapy (8 works)