Bart Vanreusel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bart Vanreusel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bart |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanreusel |
| SIGNATURE | VANREUSEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Involvement in non-club organized sport: Organizational Patterns of Sport Participation From a Longitudinal Life Course Perspective
© 2018, © 2018 European Association for Sociology of Sport. In this paper, patterns of participation in non-club organized sport over the life course of individuals are studied in order to enhance the understanding of their involvement in sport. The main research question of this investigation is to examine the correlation between prior sport experiences and current patterns of sport participation amongst middle-aged adults. The study is executed…
Can we consider changes in sports participation as institutional change? A conceptual framework
The aim of this paper is to gain conceptual understanding of changes in leisure-time sports participation (LTSP) as an issue of institutional change. The study is elaborated in the LTSP research context of Flanders (Belgium) and Denmark. Data originate from the Flemish Household Study on Sports Participation (1969, 1979, 1989, 1999, 2009), Danish National Surveys on Sports Participation (1964, 1975, 1993, 1998, 2007, 2011) and the Flemish Partici…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On utopianism and pragmatism
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, an influential scholar on sport participation, development and governance, Bart Vanreusal, considers the research project of the sociology of sport in light of the dynamics between uptopianism and pragmatism. Reflecting on Thomas More's work Utopia, published in 1516, Vanreusal notes that, in contrast to other fields, utopianism has not had a significant impact on the sociology of sport; rather, oppos…
Sports participation styles revisited: A time-trend study in Belgium from the 1970s to the 2000s
Social changes have been influencing determinants for sports participation since the introduction of the Sport for All ideology in the early 1970s. Consistent with Crum's sportisation theory, today's modes of sports practices, as well as the network of sport services, have diversified and de-traditionalised. As part of a research tradition, this contribution aims at analysing changes in sports participation styles in kinesiology students in Belgi…
The diffusion of world sports events between 1891 and 2010: A study on globalisation
This study addresses the geographical diffusion of modern sports mega-events (SMEs) over the past century from the perspective of globalisation. A representative sample of SMEs organised between 1891 and 2010 (n=927) was selected on five inclusion criteria. In order to process and visualise the global diffusion of the observed events, six macro-geographical regions were distinguished. A more detailed view on the global diffusion of SMEs over time…
Opportunities and challenges facing NGOs using sport as a vehicle for development in post-apartheid South Africa
Post-apartheid South Africa manifests poor social indicators with over half the population living below the poverty line and the worst levels of inequality in the world, with much work needed to overcome the skewed legacy of apartheid. Sport suffered in this system resulting in unequal access to sporting facilities and opportunities, meaning many South Africans cannot exercise their right to play. Despite this legacy, sport can fulfil a vital dev…
Governmental subsidies and coercive pressures. Evidence from sport clubs and their resource dependencies
This contribution aims to analyse the adoption of subsidy conditions by voluntary sport clubs in relation to their dependence on government funding. Using a sociological neo-institutional approach based upon Pfeffer and Salancik's (1978) resource dependence theory and DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) concept of coercive isomorphism, this paper analyses the possible use of sport clubs by governments as instruments of sport policy. Data for these analy…
HIV prevention through sport: The case of the Mathare Youth Sport Association in Kenya
Sport has become a popular tool for HIV prevention, based on claims that it can foster life skills that are necessary to translate knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions into actual behaviour. Empirical evidence of the effectiveness of sport-based HIV prevention programmes is, however, sorely lacking. We therefore conducted a cross-sectional survey assessing sexual behaviour and the determinants thereof among 454 youth of the Mathare You…
Sports Participation Among Females From Adolescence To Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study
It is widely believed that active participation in sports during youth is an important prerequisite for adult involvement in sports. However, data from reliable longitudinal studies tracking patterns of sports participation from youth into adulthood are scarce. This study addresses the leisure-time sports participation of adult women, 32-41 years of age, from a lifetime sports socialization perspective. Some 20 years after they participated in 19…
Social changes in youth sports participation styles 1969–1999: The case of Flanders (Belgium)
Three issues are put forward with respect to the active participation of young people in leisure-time sports styles. It is considered (a) whether sports participation styles can be detected over the last three decades, (b) whether they have changed in this period of time, and (c) whether traditional parameters understood as structuring and positioning young people's lifestyles are still relevant with respect to their sports participation preferen…
Social stratification patterns in adolescents’ active sports participation behaviour: A time trend analysis 1969-1999
The purpose of this study was to examine (a) whether adolescents’ leisure-time sports participation is socially stratified, and (b) whether possible stratification patterns have changed over the last decades. The population for the study consisted of four random samples of high school boys and girls in Flanders who were exposed to a standardized questionnaire in 1969, 1979, 1989 or 1999. The results indicated that social back ground variables rem…
Stratification Patterns of Active Sport Involvement Among Adults: Social Change and Persistence
This study examines leisure-time sport participation among adults according to their socio-cultural background and from a time-trend perspective. Using stapled cross-sectional survey data, sport participation trends in Flanders (Belgium) are studied for the 1979-99 period. The study explores the extent to which social inequalities in leisure-time sport still prevail. The results indicate that age, gender and social class remain the most important…
Modeling stability and change in strength development: A study in adolescent boys
The purpose of this study was to investigate stability and change in different expressions of strength development in adolescent boys using structural equation modeling. Three models were used: Markov simplex to study stability or tracking, Wiener or random walk to investigate fanning‐out or spread effects in change, and latent growth to study differences in individual pathways of change as well as group changes. In the Leuven Growth Study, 588 m…
Social Sports Stratification in Flanders 1969-1999: Intergenerational Reproduction of Social Inequalities
This article provides substantial empirical evidence that significant social differences exist in sports involvement in Flanders. A 30-year follow-up study of social stratification in sports was carried out to find out (i) if sports participation in Flanders is still socially stratified, and (ii) if social changes occurred in the status sports pyramid over the years of investigation. Based upon the educational status, the professional status and …
Adolescent physical performance and adult physical activity in Flemish males
Limited information is available about the associations between adolescent fitness levels and adult physical activity. In the present study, these associations are investigated using different indicators of physical activity. It is hypothesized that both health- and performance-related fitness characteristics, observed during the adolescent period, contribute equally to the explained variance in adult physical activity levels. Subjects were 109 F…
Adolescent physical performance and adult physical activity in Flemish males
Limited information is available about the associations between adolescent fitness levels and adult physical activity. In the present study, these associations are investigated using different indicators of physical activity. It is hypothesized that both health- and performance-related fitness characteristics, observed during the adolescent period, contribute equally to the explained variance in adult physical activity levels. Subjects were 109 F…
Daily physical activity and physical fitness from adolescence to adulthood: A longitudinal study
The stability of physical fitness and physical activity in Flemish males from 18 to 40 years of age was investigated. In addition, effects of a consistently low-activity or high-activity level during the same age period on physical fitness were studied. The sample consisted of males who were followed longitudinally from age 13 to age 18 years, and were remeasured at the ages of 30, 35, and 40 years. Complete data about physical fitness and physic…
Associations between daily physical activity and physical fitness in Flemish males: A cross‐sectional analysis
The relationship of physical activity to several components of physical fitness was investigated in a sample of 166 males 40 years of age. In addition to Pearson correlations, multivariate canonical correlations were calculated. Physical activity during work (work index), sport (sport index), and leisure time (leisure time index) was assessed by the Baecke questionnaire. Physical fitness included cardiorespiratory fitness measures, the body mass …
Associations between daily physical activity and physical fitness in Flemish males: A cross-sectional analysis
The relationship of physical activity to several components of physical fitness was investigated in a sample of 166 males 40 years of age. In addition to Pearson correlations, multivariate canonical correlations were calculated. Physical activity during work (work index), sport (sport index), and leisure time (leisure time index) was assessed by the Baecke questionnaire. Physical fitness included cardiorespiratory fitness measures, the body mass …
Ski Tourism and Environmental Problems: Ecological Awareness among Different Groups
In this article we analyze some connections between the ecological and the economic aspects of tourism by investigating ecological awareness among different groups. The article will outline reactions of tourists, residents of ski resorts and the Austrian and Belgian population to the ecological problems arising in winter tourism resorts. It is concluded that the Austrian winter tourism sector will have to take ecological considerations into accou…
A Longitudinal Study of Youth Sport Participation and Adherence to Sport in Adulthood
Youth sport programmes are often legitimized on their assumed contribution to continued sport involvement in adulthood. A longitudinal analysis was made of the sport involvement pattern of a sample ( N = 236) of male subjects from 13 to 35 years of age, from a perspective of continued socialization into sport. The results of the quantitative analysis show that the continuation of sport participation from youth into adulthood is different accordin…
Of Sport, Time and Money: An Economic Approach to Sport Participation
Sport is a time consuming activity and... 'time is money'. In this socio-economic study on sport participation in Flanders (Belgium), the price of time is calculated by the wages earned by the sport participants. For each of the fifteen sports selected, representative quotas of sixty male participants were interviewed by questionnaire (n=900). The different sports show different time consumption rates and their practitioners have quite divergent …
Sociogeographic variation in the physical fitness of a cross‐sectional sample of Flemish girls 13 to 18 years of age
Three aspects of physical fitness-somatic characteristics, motor fitness, and sport participation-of girls from different sociogeographic origins of Belgium were contrasted. The sample consisted of a cross-sectional sample of 4,528 Flemish girls 13 to 18 years of age, who were classified by dwelling area as rural, semi-urban, and urban. Somatic characteristics included 16 anthropometric dimensions, skeletal maturity, and somatotype. Motor fitness…
Some Patterns of Participation in Physical Activities among Elderly People
The study attempts to explore social patterns of participation in physical acti viities by elderly people. It was hypothesized that both sport involvement during earlier stages of the life cycle and actual partioipation in social life by aged persons perform a socializing role with regard to participation in physical activi ties. Continuity and activity as theoretical perspectives of a successful aging process were reflected in the hypothesis. Da…
Social Sports Stratification in Flanders 1969-1999: Intergenerational Reproduction of Social Inequalities
This article provides substantial empirical evidence that significant social differences exist in sports involvement in Flanders. A 30-year follow-up study of social stratification in sports was carried out to find out (i) if sports participation in Flanders is still socially stratified, and (ii) if social changes occurred in the status sports pyramid over the years of investigation. Based upon the educational status, the professional status and …
Social stratification patterns in adolescents’ active sports participation behaviour: A time trend analysis 1969-1999
The purpose of this study was to examine (a) whether adolescents’ leisure-time sports participation is socially stratified, and (b) whether possible stratification patterns have changed over the last decades. The population for the study consisted of four random samples of high school boys and girls in Flanders who were exposed to a standardized questionnaire in 1969, 1979, 1989 or 1999. The results indicated that social back ground variables rem…
Governmental subsidies and coercive pressures. Evidence from sport clubs and their resource dependencies
This contribution aims to analyse the adoption of subsidy conditions by voluntary sport clubs in relation to their dependence on government funding. Using a sociological neo-institutional approach based upon Pfeffer and Salancik's (1978) resource dependence theory and DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) concept of coercive isomorphism, this paper analyses the possible use of sport clubs by governments as instruments of sport policy. Data for these analy…
Stratification Patterns of Active Sport Involvement Among Adults: Social Change and Persistence
This study examines leisure-time sport participation among adults according to their socio-cultural background and from a time-trend perspective. Using stapled cross-sectional survey data, sport participation trends in Flanders (Belgium) are studied for the 1979-99 period. The study explores the extent to which social inequalities in leisure-time sport still prevail. The results indicate that age, gender and social class remain the most important…
Sports Participation Among Females From Adolescence To Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study
It is widely believed that active participation in sports during youth is an important prerequisite for adult involvement in sports. However, data from reliable longitudinal studies tracking patterns of sports participation from youth into adulthood are scarce. This study addresses the leisure-time sports participation of adult women, 32-41 years of age, from a lifetime sports socialization perspective. Some 20 years after they participated in 19…
Can we consider changes in sports participation as institutional change? A conceptual framework
The aim of this paper is to gain conceptual understanding of changes in leisure-time sports participation (LTSP) as an issue of institutional change. The study is elaborated in the LTSP research context of Flanders (Belgium) and Denmark. Data originate from the Flemish Household Study on Sports Participation (1969, 1979, 1989, 1999, 2009), Danish National Surveys on Sports Participation (1964, 1975, 1993, 1998, 2007, 2011) and the Flemish Partici…
Sports participation styles revisited: A time-trend study in Belgium from the 1970s to the 2000s
Social changes have been influencing determinants for sports participation since the introduction of the Sport for All ideology in the early 1970s. Consistent with Crum's sportisation theory, today's modes of sports practices, as well as the network of sport services, have diversified and de-traditionalised. As part of a research tradition, this contribution aims at analysing changes in sports participation styles in kinesiology students in Belgi…
A Longitudinal Study of Youth Sport Participation and Adherence to Sport in Adulthood
Youth sport programmes are often legitimized on their assumed contribution to continued sport involvement in adulthood. A longitudinal analysis was made of the sport involvement pattern of a sample ( N = 236) of male subjects from 13 to 35 years of age, from a perspective of continued socialization into sport. The results of the quantitative analysis show that the continuation of sport participation from youth into adulthood is different accordin…
Social changes in youth sports participation styles 1969–1999: The case of Flanders (Belgium)
Three issues are put forward with respect to the active participation of young people in leisure-time sports styles. It is considered (a) whether sports participation styles can be detected over the last three decades, (b) whether they have changed in this period of time, and (c) whether traditional parameters understood as structuring and positioning young people's lifestyles are still relevant with respect to their sports participation preferen…
Opportunities and challenges facing NGOs using sport as a vehicle for development in post-apartheid South Africa
Post-apartheid South Africa manifests poor social indicators with over half the population living below the poverty line and the worst levels of inequality in the world, with much work needed to overcome the skewed legacy of apartheid. Sport suffered in this system resulting in unequal access to sporting facilities and opportunities, meaning many South Africans cannot exercise their right to play. Despite this legacy, sport can fulfil a vital dev…
Of Sport, Time and Money: An Economic Approach to Sport Participation
Sport is a time consuming activity and... 'time is money'. In this socio-economic study on sport participation in Flanders (Belgium), the price of time is calculated by the wages earned by the sport participants. For each of the fifteen sports selected, representative quotas of sixty male participants were interviewed by questionnaire (n=900). The different sports show different time consumption rates and their practitioners have quite divergent …
Involvement in non-club organized sport: Organizational Patterns of Sport Participation From a Longitudinal Life Course Perspective
© 2018, © 2018 European Association for Sociology of Sport. In this paper, patterns of participation in non-club organized sport over the life course of individuals are studied in order to enhance the understanding of their involvement in sport. The main research question of this investigation is to examine the correlation between prior sport experiences and current patterns of sport participation amongst middle-aged adults. The study is executed…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On utopianism and pragmatism
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, an influential scholar on sport participation, development and governance, Bart Vanreusal, considers the research project of the sociology of sport in light of the dynamics between uptopianism and pragmatism. Reflecting on Thomas More's work Utopia, published in 1516, Vanreusal notes that, in contrast to other fields, utopianism has not had a significant impact on the sociology of sport; rather, oppos…
The diffusion of world sports events between 1891 and 2010: A study on globalisation
This study addresses the geographical diffusion of modern sports mega-events (SMEs) over the past century from the perspective of globalisation. A representative sample of SMEs organised between 1891 and 2010 (n=927) was selected on five inclusion criteria. In order to process and visualise the global diffusion of the observed events, six macro-geographical regions were distinguished. A more detailed view on the global diffusion of SMEs over time…
Ski Tourism and Environmental Problems: Ecological Awareness among Different Groups
In this article we analyze some connections between the ecological and the economic aspects of tourism by investigating ecological awareness among different groups. The article will outline reactions of tourists, residents of ski resorts and the Austrian and Belgian population to the ecological problems arising in winter tourism resorts. It is concluded that the Austrian winter tourism sector will have to take ecological considerations into accou…
Some Patterns of Participation in Physical Activities among Elderly People
The study attempts to explore social patterns of participation in physical acti viities by elderly people. It was hypothesized that both sport involvement during earlier stages of the life cycle and actual partioipation in social life by aged persons perform a socializing role with regard to participation in physical activi ties. Continuity and activity as theoretical perspectives of a successful aging process were reflected in the hypothesis. Da…
Sociogeographic variation in the physical fitness of a cross‐sectional sample of Flemish girls 13 to 18 years of age
Three aspects of physical fitness-somatic characteristics, motor fitness, and sport participation-of girls from different sociogeographic origins of Belgium were contrasted. The sample consisted of a cross-sectional sample of 4,528 Flemish girls 13 to 18 years of age, who were classified by dwelling area as rural, semi-urban, and urban. Somatic characteristics included 16 anthropometric dimensions, skeletal maturity, and somatotype. Motor fitness…
Of Sport, Time and Money: An Economic Approach to Sport Participation
Sport is a time consuming activity and... 'time is money'. In this socio-economic study on sport participation in Flanders (Belgium), the price of time is calculated by the wages earned by the sport participants. For each of the fifteen sports selected, representative quotas of sixty male participants were interviewed by questionnaire (n=900). The different sports show different time consumption rates and their practitioners have quite divergent …
A Longitudinal Study of Youth Sport Participation and Adherence to Sport in Adulthood
Youth sport programmes are often legitimized on their assumed contribution to continued sport involvement in adulthood. A longitudinal analysis was made of the sport involvement pattern of a sample ( N = 236) of male subjects from 13 to 35 years of age, from a perspective of continued socialization into sport. The results of the quantitative analysis show that the continuation of sport participation from youth into adulthood is different accordin…
Ski Tourism and Environmental Problems: Ecological Awareness among Different Groups
In this article we analyze some connections between the ecological and the economic aspects of tourism by investigating ecological awareness among different groups. The article will outline reactions of tourists, residents of ski resorts and the Austrian and Belgian population to the ecological problems arising in winter tourism resorts. It is concluded that the Austrian winter tourism sector will have to take ecological considerations into accou…
Associations between daily physical activity and physical fitness in Flemish males: A cross‐sectional analysis
The relationship of physical activity to several components of physical fitness was investigated in a sample of 166 males 40 years of age. In addition to Pearson correlations, multivariate canonical correlations were calculated. Physical activity during work (work index), sport (sport index), and leisure time (leisure time index) was assessed by the Baecke questionnaire. Physical fitness included cardiorespiratory fitness measures, the body mass …
Associations between daily physical activity and physical fitness in Flemish males: A cross-sectional analysis
The relationship of physical activity to several components of physical fitness was investigated in a sample of 166 males 40 years of age. In addition to Pearson correlations, multivariate canonical correlations were calculated. Physical activity during work (work index), sport (sport index), and leisure time (leisure time index) was assessed by the Baecke questionnaire. Physical fitness included cardiorespiratory fitness measures, the body mass …
Daily physical activity and physical fitness from adolescence to adulthood: A longitudinal study
The stability of physical fitness and physical activity in Flemish males from 18 to 40 years of age was investigated. In addition, effects of a consistently low-activity or high-activity level during the same age period on physical fitness were studied. The sample consisted of males who were followed longitudinally from age 13 to age 18 years, and were remeasured at the ages of 30, 35, and 40 years. Complete data about physical fitness and physic…
Adolescent physical performance and adult physical activity in Flemish males
Limited information is available about the associations between adolescent fitness levels and adult physical activity. In the present study, these associations are investigated using different indicators of physical activity. It is hypothesized that both health- and performance-related fitness characteristics, observed during the adolescent period, contribute equally to the explained variance in adult physical activity levels. Subjects were 109 F…
Adolescent physical performance and adult physical activity in Flemish males
Limited information is available about the associations between adolescent fitness levels and adult physical activity. In the present study, these associations are investigated using different indicators of physical activity. It is hypothesized that both health- and performance-related fitness characteristics, observed during the adolescent period, contribute equally to the explained variance in adult physical activity levels. Subjects were 109 F…
Social Sports Stratification in Flanders 1969-1999: Intergenerational Reproduction of Social Inequalities
This article provides substantial empirical evidence that significant social differences exist in sports involvement in Flanders. A 30-year follow-up study of social stratification in sports was carried out to find out (i) if sports participation in Flanders is still socially stratified, and (ii) if social changes occurred in the status sports pyramid over the years of investigation. Based upon the educational status, the professional status and …
Modeling stability and change in strength development: A study in adolescent boys
The purpose of this study was to investigate stability and change in different expressions of strength development in adolescent boys using structural equation modeling. Three models were used: Markov simplex to study stability or tracking, Wiener or random walk to investigate fanning‐out or spread effects in change, and latent growth to study differences in individual pathways of change as well as group changes. In the Leuven Growth Study, 588 m…
Social changes in youth sports participation styles 1969–1999: The case of Flanders (Belgium)
Three issues are put forward with respect to the active participation of young people in leisure-time sports styles. It is considered (a) whether sports participation styles can be detected over the last three decades, (b) whether they have changed in this period of time, and (c) whether traditional parameters understood as structuring and positioning young people's lifestyles are still relevant with respect to their sports participation preferen…
Social stratification patterns in adolescents’ active sports participation behaviour: A time trend analysis 1969-1999
The purpose of this study was to examine (a) whether adolescents’ leisure-time sports participation is socially stratified, and (b) whether possible stratification patterns have changed over the last decades. The population for the study consisted of four random samples of high school boys and girls in Flanders who were exposed to a standardized questionnaire in 1969, 1979, 1989 or 1999. The results indicated that social back ground variables rem…
Stratification Patterns of Active Sport Involvement Among Adults: Social Change and Persistence
This study examines leisure-time sport participation among adults according to their socio-cultural background and from a time-trend perspective. Using stapled cross-sectional survey data, sport participation trends in Flanders (Belgium) are studied for the 1979-99 period. The study explores the extent to which social inequalities in leisure-time sport still prevail. The results indicate that age, gender and social class remain the most important…
Sports Participation Among Females From Adolescence To Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study
It is widely believed that active participation in sports during youth is an important prerequisite for adult involvement in sports. However, data from reliable longitudinal studies tracking patterns of sports participation from youth into adulthood are scarce. This study addresses the leisure-time sports participation of adult women, 32-41 years of age, from a lifetime sports socialization perspective. Some 20 years after they participated in 19…
HIV prevention through sport: The case of the Mathare Youth Sport Association in Kenya
Sport has become a popular tool for HIV prevention, based on claims that it can foster life skills that are necessary to translate knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions into actual behaviour. Empirical evidence of the effectiveness of sport-based HIV prevention programmes is, however, sorely lacking. We therefore conducted a cross-sectional survey assessing sexual behaviour and the determinants thereof among 454 youth of the Mathare You…
Governmental subsidies and coercive pressures. Evidence from sport clubs and their resource dependencies
This contribution aims to analyse the adoption of subsidy conditions by voluntary sport clubs in relation to their dependence on government funding. Using a sociological neo-institutional approach based upon Pfeffer and Salancik's (1978) resource dependence theory and DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) concept of coercive isomorphism, this paper analyses the possible use of sport clubs by governments as instruments of sport policy. Data for these analy…
Opportunities and challenges facing NGOs using sport as a vehicle for development in post-apartheid South Africa
Post-apartheid South Africa manifests poor social indicators with over half the population living below the poverty line and the worst levels of inequality in the world, with much work needed to overcome the skewed legacy of apartheid. Sport suffered in this system resulting in unequal access to sporting facilities and opportunities, meaning many South Africans cannot exercise their right to play. Despite this legacy, sport can fulfil a vital dev…
The diffusion of world sports events between 1891 and 2010: A study on globalisation
This study addresses the geographical diffusion of modern sports mega-events (SMEs) over the past century from the perspective of globalisation. A representative sample of SMEs organised between 1891 and 2010 (n=927) was selected on five inclusion criteria. In order to process and visualise the global diffusion of the observed events, six macro-geographical regions were distinguished. A more detailed view on the global diffusion of SMEs over time…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On utopianism and pragmatism
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, an influential scholar on sport participation, development and governance, Bart Vanreusal, considers the research project of the sociology of sport in light of the dynamics between uptopianism and pragmatism. Reflecting on Thomas More's work Utopia, published in 1516, Vanreusal notes that, in contrast to other fields, utopianism has not had a significant impact on the sociology of sport; rather, oppos…
Sports participation styles revisited: A time-trend study in Belgium from the 1970s to the 2000s
Social changes have been influencing determinants for sports participation since the introduction of the Sport for All ideology in the early 1970s. Consistent with Crum's sportisation theory, today's modes of sports practices, as well as the network of sport services, have diversified and de-traditionalised. As part of a research tradition, this contribution aims at analysing changes in sports participation styles in kinesiology students in Belgi…
Involvement in non-club organized sport: Organizational Patterns of Sport Participation From a Longitudinal Life Course Perspective
© 2018, © 2018 European Association for Sociology of Sport. In this paper, patterns of participation in non-club organized sport over the life course of individuals are studied in order to enhance the understanding of their involvement in sport. The main research question of this investigation is to examine the correlation between prior sport experiences and current patterns of sport participation amongst middle-aged adults. The study is executed…
Can we consider changes in sports participation as institutional change? A conceptual framework
The aim of this paper is to gain conceptual understanding of changes in leisure-time sports participation (LTSP) as an issue of institutional change. The study is elaborated in the LTSP research context of Flanders (Belgium) and Denmark. Data originate from the Flemish Household Study on Sports Participation (1969, 1979, 1989, 1999, 2009), Danish National Surveys on Sports Participation (1964, 1975, 1993, 1998, 2007, 2011) and the Flemish Partici…
Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Physical therapy (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Physical activity (7 works)