Siegfried Nagel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siegfried Nagel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siegfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Nagel |
| SIGNATURE | NAGEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9993-8570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sportvereine in der Verantwortung für nachhaltige Transformation: Klimafreundliche Mobilität im Sportverein.
Im transdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt Klimafreundliche Mobilität im Sportverein entwickeln Forschende der Universität Bern gemeinsam mit dem Schweizerischen Fussballverband, Swiss-Ski und dem Schweizer Alpen-Club partizipativ Maßnahmen zur Reduktion sportbezogener CO 2 -Emissionen, um nachhaltige Praxis im Breitensport zu fördern.
The tension between professionalisation and volunteering in sports clubs
Increasingly, sports clubs attempt to overcome challenges using professionalisation, such as hiring paid employees and adopting strategic planning and management tools from the business sector. While professionalisation and volunteering are crucial for most sports clubs, they are in a field of trade-offs, where transformation processes can also be associated with negative side effects. This article analyses tensions between professionalisation an…
Willingness of voluntary sports clubs to implement integration programmes – A construction of organisational identity ideal types
Integration of migrants is currently among the most relevant political issues in Western societies. In this context, voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) have been granted substantial trust to bring people together in joint sport activities. However, despite ambitious programmes launched by public authorities and/, or sport federations, a relatively small proportion of VSCs engage with such targeted initiatives. The existing literature provides explanati…
Funktionen von Sportvereinen in europäischen Gesellschaften: Eine länderübergreifende vergleichende Studie
In diesem Buch werden gesellschaftliche Funktionen von Sportvereinen, wie soziale Inklusion, demokratische Teilhabe u.ä. vergleichend näher beleuchtet.
Entstehung organisationaler Initiativen zur Integration von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in Schweizer Fußballvereinen
Der Beitrag analysiert auf Basis akteurtheoretischer Konzepte und des Papierkorbmodells die Entstehung organisationaler Initiativen zur Einbindung von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in Fußballvereinen. Als empirische Grundlage dienen 32 Expert:inneninterviews im Rahmen von Fallstudien in 12 Schweizer Fußballvereinen, welche organisationale Initiativen ergriffen haben. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass viele Vereine auf Basis moralischer Überzeugung…
Sportsoziologie: Einführung
Sport fascinates people. They invest time, money, energy and emotions in it. Sport does not only offer exercise, competition, camaraderie and health benefits, but also a ritual, a lifestyle, spectacle and commercial advantages. From a sociological perspective, this textbook examines the meaning of sport for people and society in 14 chapters. Illustrated with examples and up-to-date studies, it highlights the manifold facets of and trends in sport…
Children’s sport opportunities and parental support in single-parent families with a lower socio-economic status. An ecological perspective
Single parents tend to face particular challenges in supporting their children's sport activity. Informed by an ecological perspective, a qualitative interview study was conducted to get an in-depth understanding about how barriers and facilitators shape children's sport opportunities in Swiss single-parent families with lower socio-economic status (SES). In order to estimate the extent to which situations are specific to lower SES single parents…
The role of team structures in social integration in swiss football clubs: A Multilevel Analysis
Sports clubs may be an ideal setting for social integration for people from different backgrounds. Using heuristic multilevel models, prior studies linked the individual characteristics of the members with social structures at the club context (e.g. club goals) to explain social integration. However, due the organisation of sport activities in teams, another social context with distinct social structures (e.g. team culture) exists within clubs th…
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study
For many high-performance athletes, competing in the Olympic Games is a major goal. Achieving this goal requires more than ever substantial investments of time and personal resources towards the sports career over several years. Thus, some athletes neglect other areas of life (e.g. education), which can pose a problem for the time after high-performance sport, while other athletes pursue a dual career. Previous studies have shown that former high…
Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis
Sport clubs are considered an ideal setting for the social integration of people with a migration background. However, they can also be a place of social closure practices, where assimilative ideas and ethnic boundaries are present. Besides the individual characteristics of the members, adequate club organizational structures are relevant for preventing social closure and facilitating social integration. Thus, the role of organizational structure…
“Just taking part or fully participate with others!?”: Social integration of members with disabilities in mainstream sports clubs
People with disabilities still show lower participation rates in mainstream sports clubs. Even when they are members of mainstream sports clubs, their participation is often limited to structural integration, while broader social integration including cultural and affective dimensions is only partially achieved. Thus, this study analyses the broader extent of social integration of members with disabilities in sports clubs, applying Esser’s model …
Taking Up and Terminating Leisure-Time Physical Activity over the Life Course: The Role of Life Events in the Familial and Occupational Life Domains
Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is associated with various health-promoting effects. However, little is known about the relationship between life events and changes in LTPA over the life course, especially when multiple life events occur simultaneously. Therefore, this study examines taking up and terminating LTPA associated with life events in the familial and occupational life domains over 16 years of 16–76-year-old Swiss inhabitants (n =…
The relevance of migration status for voluntary tasks in sports clubs
Current research has identified practices of ethnic closure and discrimination regarding voluntary positions in sports clubs. This article explores whether people with migration background differ in terms of taking on voluntary tasks from people without migration background. The analyses build on data from the project ‘Social Inclusion and Volunteering in Sports Clubs in Europe’ (SIVSCE) that includes information about volunteering, as well as, i…
Social integration of Ethiopian and Eritrean women in Switzerland through informal sport settings
This study investigated the role of informal sport settings (i.e. self-organised and non-voluntary sports clubs) in the social integration of Ethiopian and Eritrean women into Swiss society. Social integration seen as a multidimensional, interdependent process between the interaction of social bond, bridge and links; and two-way interaction between the migrant and local community. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews and focus group di…
The Role of Teaching Strategies in Social Acceptance and Interactions; Considering Students With Intellectual Disabilities in Inclusive Physical Education
Including students with intellectual disabilities in primary school-based physical education (PE) is common practice. However, little is known about students’ social participation in this environment and how it is related to PE teaching strategies. This multilevel study explored the relations between the teaching strategies teaching cooperative norms using individual reference norm orientation (IRNO), taking into consideration students’ social ac…
Social Integration of People With a Migration Background in European Sports Clubs
Policy makers often ascribe sports clubs an important societal role, as they can encourage the integration of people with a migration background. Questions then arise as to the extent that members with a migration background are integrated in sports clubs and what the factors are that play a role in this integration. The data for this research are drawn from a comparative study of 10 European countries. The analyses take a multidimensional approa…
Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs: A multilevel analysis in 10 European countries
Regular voluntary engagement is a basic resource for sports clubs that may also promote social cohesion and active citizenship. The satisfaction of volunteers is an imperative factor in this engagement, and the purpose of this article is to explore individual and organizational determinants of volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs. Theoretically, our study builds on the actor-theory concepts where volunteer satisfaction depends on subjective eva…
Zur Bedeutung soziodemografischer, sportbezogener und soziokultureller Merkmale für die soziale Integration junger Migranten in Schweizer Sportvereinen
Dieser Beitrag analysiert, basierend auf Essers (2009) vierdimensionalem Integrationskonzept, das Ausmaß der sozialen Integration von einheimischen und immigrierten Mitgliedern im Vereinssport ( n = 780; M Alter = 20.62; 38.2 % weiblich; 38.5 % mit Migrationshintergrund). Dabei interessierte der Einfluss soziodemografischer, sportbezogener sowie soziokultureller Merkmale. Mitglieder der ersten Migrationsgeneration waren entlang dreier Integration…
Social integration in sports clubs: Individual and organisational factors in a European context
Sports clubs are often perceived as important mediums for social integration, but the empirical evidence to support this claim is limited. This article sets out to identify individual and organisational characteristics that are conducive to social integration of members and volunteers. Drawing on survey data from 13,000 members and volunteers in ten European countries, an exploratory factor analysis identified three dimensions of social integrati…
Social roles of sport organisations: Developments, Contexts and Challenges
port organisations are increasingly expected and encouraged to take up a wider social role. They are thought to foster social capital, social inclusion and democratic participation among organisational members, and to strengthen social cohesion in local communities. An increasing number of public institutions cooperate with sport organisations because of these supposedly positive spill-over effects. Next to these social roles for members and loca…
Sports clubs as a medium for integrating people with disabilities
Participation in sports clubs is often ascribed with the ability to promote social integration of people with disabilities, since it can provide a platform for creating social networks and friendships. However, integration is not reached automatically, and it is strongly reliant on specific factors and conditions. Therefore, this study compares the degree of social integration of members with and without disabilities and analyses individual and s…
Intergenerational transfer of a sports-related lifestyle within the family
The intergenerational transfer of a sports-related lifestyle within the family is a potential way to explain the social differences in sports participation that are displayed by young people. In this article, the importance of a sports-related lifestyle within the family, as well as parents' educational background and sports participation in childhood, in the sports participation of adolescents and young adults is examined from the perspective of…
Orientation patterns of sports and physical activity among young people in Switzerland
In recent years, adolescent sports and physical activity have become a multifaceted culture. Different patterns of sports and physical activities are assumed to be based on different subjective action orientations. This paper aims to examine the variations in sports and physical activity among youths and young adolescents based on the sports models proposed by Heinemann (2007 Heckhausen, J., & Heckhausen, H. (2006). Motivation und Handeln: Einfüh…
Analyzing social integration of young immigrants in sports clubs
Integrating immigrants into the social environments of voluntary sports clubs (VSC) is a key component along the path to a varied sports landscape and to social sectors beyond sports. However, there has been no analysis tool to adequately assess the social integration in VSCs of people from a migration background. Thus, studies have produced an ambivalent picture of how well-integrated immigrant club members are. The aim of this study was to deve…
Individual and contextual determinants of stable volunteering in sport clubs
This article addresses factors that influence voluntary sport club (VSC) members' loyalty to voluntary engagement. The question asked is an issue of VSC volunteers' commitment; whether they decide to quit or continue their engagement. A multilevel approach was used that considered both individual characteristics of volunteers and corresponding contextual features of VSCs to analyse members' voluntary commitment. Different multilevel models were e…
Does context matter? Analysing structural and individual factors of member commitment in sport clubs
This article addresses factors that infl uence member commitment in sport clubs. Based on the theory of social action and the economic behaviour theory, it focuses not only on individual characteristics of club members but also on the corresponding structural conditions of sport clubs. Accordingly, a multilevel framework is developed for explaining member commitment in sport clubs. Different multilevel models were estimated in order to analyse th…
Social integration in sports clubs: Individual and organisational factors in a European context
Sports clubs are often perceived as important mediums for social integration, but the empirical evidence to support this claim is limited. This article sets out to identify individual and organisational characteristics that are conducive to social integration of members and volunteers. Drawing on survey data from 13,000 members and volunteers in ten European countries, an exploratory factor analysis identified three dimensions of social integrati…
Analyzing social integration of young immigrants in sports clubs
Integrating immigrants into the social environments of voluntary sports clubs (VSC) is a key component along the path to a varied sports landscape and to social sectors beyond sports. However, there has been no analysis tool to adequately assess the social integration in VSCs of people from a migration background. Thus, studies have produced an ambivalent picture of how well-integrated immigrant club members are. The aim of this study was to deve…
Sports participation during the life course
For many European nations, lifelong sports participation is an intrinsic aspect of sport policy. Nonetheless, very few differentiated studies have examined how participation in sport changes over the lifespan. Differences in individual life courses and in socio-historical framing conditions would suggest a great variety of different courses. It is necessary then to ask how participation can be described over the life course, and to what extent pe…
Goals of sports clubs
Sports clubs do not strive for maximum profit. They aim to offer their members the opportunity to practise sport and to pass leisure time actively. This paper analyses the goals of sports clubs from the perspective of the theory of action. The collective goals of the club are developed from the members' interests. The methodological approach applied in the study is a combination of a quantitative survey and case studies.Six goal-profiles have bee…
Professional Careers of the German Olympic Athletes
Successful careers in top-performance sports demand large amounts of time and personal resources and normally they take a course parallel to the period of educational and professional qualification. Regarding careers of former top-performance athletes, the question arises as to how far the engagement in top-performance sports has an influence on the professional career path. This article aims to categorize the professional careers of top-performa…
Changes in German sport participation: Historical trends in individual sports
Sport has become a highly differentiated social phenomenon in recent years. Changes in society, such as individualization, the growing significance of the health and body culture, and changing values, are considered to be generative mechanisms for increasing social importance and the differentiation of modern sport. Although discussions in sport sociology attribute the changes observed in recent decades of sport participation to a socially determ…
Social roles of sport organisations: Developments, Contexts and Challenges
port organisations are increasingly expected and encouraged to take up a wider social role. They are thought to foster social capital, social inclusion and democratic participation among organisational members, and to strengthen social cohesion in local communities. An increasing number of public institutions cooperate with sport organisations because of these supposedly positive spill-over effects. Next to these social roles for members and loca…
Social integration of Ethiopian and Eritrean women in Switzerland through informal sport settings
This study investigated the role of informal sport settings (i.e. self-organised and non-voluntary sports clubs) in the social integration of Ethiopian and Eritrean women into Swiss society. Social integration seen as a multidimensional, interdependent process between the interaction of social bond, bridge and links; and two-way interaction between the migrant and local community. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews and focus group di…
Sports clubs as a medium for integrating people with disabilities
Participation in sports clubs is often ascribed with the ability to promote social integration of people with disabilities, since it can provide a platform for creating social networks and friendships. However, integration is not reached automatically, and it is strongly reliant on specific factors and conditions. Therefore, this study compares the degree of social integration of members with and without disabilities and analyses individual and s…
Intergenerational transfer of a sports-related lifestyle within the family
The intergenerational transfer of a sports-related lifestyle within the family is a potential way to explain the social differences in sports participation that are displayed by young people. In this article, the importance of a sports-related lifestyle within the family, as well as parents' educational background and sports participation in childhood, in the sports participation of adolescents and young adults is examined from the perspective of…
Developing a conceptual framework to analyse professionalization in sport federations
Existing research on sport organisations is imprecise in the use of the concept 'professionalisation'. Furthermore, we do not know if analytical concepts of professionalisation correspond with the understanding in practice. This study explores the perceptions of practitioners and proposes a framework to analyse professionalisation in national sport federations. Expert interviews were conducted with six key people from Swiss national sport federat…
Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis
Sport clubs are considered an ideal setting for the social integration of people with a migration background. However, they can also be a place of social closure practices, where assimilative ideas and ethnic boundaries are present. Besides the individual characteristics of the members, adequate club organizational structures are relevant for preventing social closure and facilitating social integration. Thus, the role of organizational structure…
Vocational careers of retired Olympic athletes from Switzerland: A person-oriented study
For many high-performance athletes, competing in the Olympic Games is a major goal. Achieving this goal requires more than ever substantial investments of time and personal resources towards the sports career over several years. Thus, some athletes neglect other areas of life (e.g. education), which can pose a problem for the time after high-performance sport, while other athletes pursue a dual career. Previous studies have shown that former high…
Social Integration of People With a Migration Background in European Sports Clubs
Policy makers often ascribe sports clubs an important societal role, as they can encourage the integration of people with a migration background. Questions then arise as to the extent that members with a migration background are integrated in sports clubs and what the factors are that play a role in this integration. The data for this research are drawn from a comparative study of 10 European countries. The analyses take a multidimensional approa…
Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs: A multilevel analysis in 10 European countries
Regular voluntary engagement is a basic resource for sports clubs that may also promote social cohesion and active citizenship. The satisfaction of volunteers is an imperative factor in this engagement, and the purpose of this article is to explore individual and organizational determinants of volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs. Theoretically, our study builds on the actor-theory concepts where volunteer satisfaction depends on subjective eva…
Orientation patterns of sports and physical activity among young people in Switzerland
In recent years, adolescent sports and physical activity have become a multifaceted culture. Different patterns of sports and physical activities are assumed to be based on different subjective action orientations. This paper aims to examine the variations in sports and physical activity among youths and young adolescents based on the sports models proposed by Heinemann (2007 Heckhausen, J., & Heckhausen, H. (2006). Motivation und Handeln: Einfüh…
Individual and contextual determinants of stable volunteering in sport clubs
This article addresses factors that influence voluntary sport club (VSC) members' loyalty to voluntary engagement. The question asked is an issue of VSC volunteers' commitment; whether they decide to quit or continue their engagement. A multilevel approach was used that considered both individual characteristics of volunteers and corresponding contextual features of VSCs to analyse members' voluntary commitment. Different multilevel models were e…
Children’s sport opportunities and parental support in single-parent families with a lower socio-economic status. An ecological perspective
Single parents tend to face particular challenges in supporting their children's sport activity. Informed by an ecological perspective, a qualitative interview study was conducted to get an in-depth understanding about how barriers and facilitators shape children's sport opportunities in Swiss single-parent families with lower socio-economic status (SES). In order to estimate the extent to which situations are specific to lower SES single parents…
Special Issue EJSS 1/2016: Sport organizations in Europe – changes and challenges
Professional Careers of the German Olympic Athletes
Successful careers in top-performance sports demand large amounts of time and personal resources and normally they take a course parallel to the period of educational and professional qualification. Regarding careers of former top-performance athletes, the question arises as to how far the engagement in top-performance sports has an influence on the professional career path. This article aims to categorize the professional careers of top-performa…
Sport and Social Order: Challenges for Theory and Practice
Mitgliederbindung in Sportvereinen - Ein akteurtheoretisches Analysemodell / Commitment of Members in Sport Clubs - A Model Based on the General Theory of Action
Zur Analyse der Mitgliederbindung in Sportvereinen wird ein akteurtheoretisches Modell entwickelt, das auf der verallgemeinerten Handlungstheorie von Esser basiert. Dabei wird die Frage der Bindung von Sportvereinsmitgliedern als Entscheidungshandlung zwischen Austritt oder weiterer Mitgliedschaft konzeptualisiert und das Austrittsrisiko anhand der subjektiven Erwartungen und Bewertungen der Mitglieder sowie ihrer spezifischen Eingebundenheit in …
Zum Einfluss der Hochleistungssport-Karriere auf die Berufskarriere – Chancen und Risiken / The Influence of a High-Performance Career on the Occupational Career – Chances and Risks
Eine Karriere im Hochleistungssport ist mit hohen zeitlichen Belastungen verbunden. Da die Spitzensport- Karriere lebenszeitlich beschränkt ist und in der Regel in der vierten Lebensdekade beendet wird, stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen eines Engagements im Hochleistungssport auf die Berufskarriere. Hierzu wurden im Rahmen einer quantitativ orientierten Kohortenanalyse ehemalige Spitzensportler zu ihrem beruflichen Werdegang und möglich…
Sozialisation und Sport im Lebensverlauf
Goals of sports clubs
Sports clubs do not strive for maximum profit. They aim to offer their members the opportunity to practise sport and to pass leisure time actively. This paper analyses the goals of sports clubs from the perspective of the theory of action. The collective goals of the club are developed from the members' interests. The methodological approach applied in the study is a combination of a quantitative survey and case studies.Six goal-profiles have bee…
Freiwilliges Engagement im Sportverein ist Ehrensache!“ - Ein Modell zur Analyse der Mitarbeitsentscheidung in Sportvereinen / “Volunteering in sports clubs as a matter of honor”: Analyzing volunteer …
Ökonomische Ansätze mit ihrer Festlegung auf die nutzentheoretische Modellierung haben die Erklärungsprobleme des Entscheidungsverhaltens in Bezug auf die ehrenamtliche Mitarbeit in Sportvereinen bislang nicht hinreichend präzise abbilden können. Der „Frame-Selektion-Ansatz" von Esser mit seinem integrativen Anspruch bietet eine aussichtsreiche Möglichkeit zur Schließung wichtiger Erklärungslücken. Dazu wird die Frage der freiwilligen Mitarbeit v…
Sports participation during the life course
For many European nations, lifelong sports participation is an intrinsic aspect of sport policy. Nonetheless, very few differentiated studies have examined how participation in sport changes over the lifespan. Differences in individual life courses and in socio-historical framing conditions would suggest a great variety of different courses. It is necessary then to ask how participation can be described over the life course, and to what extent pe…
Sportvereine als Interessenorganisationen?! – Ursachen und Auswirkungen von Ziel-Interessen-Divergenzen in freiwilligen Sportorganisationen / Sports Clubs as Mutual Interest Organizations? – Causes an…
Für Sportvereine als Interessenorganisationen scheint die Rückbindung der Vereinsziele an die Mitgliederinteressen von zentraler Bedeutung zu sein. In der Vereinsrealität dürfte aber diese Rückbindung nur teilweise gewährleistet sein und folglich Ziel-Interessen-Divergenzen eher die Norm als die Ausnahme darstellen. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, welche Ursachen für Ziel-Interessen- Divergenzen verantwortlich zu machen sind und wel…
Zur Entwicklung des Berufsfelds Sport in der Schweiz – Eine Analyse auf der Grundlage der Lebensverlaufsforschung / On the development of sports professions in Switzerland: An analysis based on life c…
Obwohl im Berufsfeld Sport die Ausdifferenzierung einer großen Vielfalt an Tätigkeitsbereichen zu beobachten ist, werden die Chancen auf stabile und angemessen bezahlte Beschäftigungsverhältnisse von Absolventen sportwissenschaftlicher Studiengänge vielfach als skeptisch beurteilt. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit hierfür branchenspezifische Sättigungserscheinungen sowie Effekte substituierbarer Qualifikationsanforderungen eine Rolle spiele…
Destandardised career entry? An analysis of the transition to professional life by Swiss sports science graduates
In recent decades, sport has become more and more important as an occupational field, due to the increasing differentiation and commercialisation of sports. This paper will analyse to what extent these developments are associated with destandardisation processes at the time when sports science graduates embark on their professional career. For this purpose, continuous professional trajectories were gathered from a sample of n = 742 sports science…
Changes in German sport participation: Historical trends in individual sports
Sport has become a highly differentiated social phenomenon in recent years. Changes in society, such as individualization, the growing significance of the health and body culture, and changing values, are considered to be generative mechanisms for increasing social importance and the differentiation of modern sport. Although discussions in sport sociology attribute the changes observed in recent decades of sport participation to a socially determ…
Sport Clubs in Europe: A Cross-National Comparative Perspective
Does context matter? Analysing structural and individual factors of member commitment in sport clubs
This article addresses factors that infl uence member commitment in sport clubs. Based on the theory of social action and the economic behaviour theory, it focuses not only on individual characteristics of club members but also on the corresponding structural conditions of sport clubs. Accordingly, a multilevel framework is developed for explaining member commitment in sport clubs. Different multilevel models were estimated in order to analyse th…
Zur Bedeutung sportbezogener Orientierungs- und Verhaltensmuster in der Familie für das Sportengagement Jugendlicher
Young people differ widely in their sports behavior and show high drop-out rates from organized sports. One explanation from socialization theory refers to the transgenerational mediation of sports behavior and orientations toward sports within the family. The present study investigates the relevance of orientations toward sports and behavioral patterns within the family to young people’s sports behavior. Using methodological triangulation betwee…
Special Issue EJSS 1/2016: Sport organizations in Europe – changes and challenges
Developing a conceptual framework to analyse professionalization in sport federations
Existing research on sport organisations is imprecise in the use of the concept 'professionalisation'. Furthermore, we do not know if analytical concepts of professionalisation correspond with the understanding in practice. This study explores the perceptions of practitioners and proposes a framework to analyse professionalisation in national sport federations. Expert interviews were conducted with six key people from Swiss national sport federat…
Determinants of stable volunteering in Swiss soccer clubs
This study analysed the underlying determinants of soccer club volunteers’ tendency to continue or terminate their voluntary engagement. Stable voluntary engagement was analysed in terms of volunteers’ subjective expectations regarding club-related working conditions, expressed by level of job satisfaction and orientation of collective solidarity to their soccer club. These relationships were tested empirically using an online questionnaire with …
Orientation patterns of sports and physical activity among young people in Switzerland
In recent years, adolescent sports and physical activity have become a multifaceted culture. Different patterns of sports and physical activities are assumed to be based on different subjective action orientations. This paper aims to examine the variations in sports and physical activity among youths and young adolescents based on the sports models proposed by Heinemann (2007 Heckhausen, J., & Heckhausen, H. (2006). Motivation und Handeln: Einfüh…
Analyzing social integration of young immigrants in sports clubs
Integrating immigrants into the social environments of voluntary sports clubs (VSC) is a key component along the path to a varied sports landscape and to social sectors beyond sports. However, there has been no analysis tool to adequately assess the social integration in VSCs of people from a migration background. Thus, studies have produced an ambivalent picture of how well-integrated immigrant club members are. The aim of this study was to deve…
Individual and contextual determinants of stable volunteering in sport clubs
This article addresses factors that influence voluntary sport club (VSC) members' loyalty to voluntary engagement. The question asked is an issue of VSC volunteers' commitment; whether they decide to quit or continue their engagement. A multilevel approach was used that considered both individual characteristics of volunteers and corresponding contextual features of VSCs to analyse members' voluntary commitment. Different multilevel models were e…
Zur Bedeutung soziodemografischer, sportbezogener und soziokultureller Merkmale für die soziale Integration junger Migranten in Schweizer Sportvereinen
Dieser Beitrag analysiert, basierend auf Essers (2009) vierdimensionalem Integrationskonzept, das Ausmaß der sozialen Integration von einheimischen und immigrierten Mitgliedern im Vereinssport ( n = 780; M Alter = 20.62; 38.2 % weiblich; 38.5 % mit Migrationshintergrund). Dabei interessierte der Einfluss soziodemografischer, sportbezogener sowie soziokultureller Merkmale. Mitglieder der ersten Migrationsgeneration waren entlang dreier Integration…
Social integration in sports clubs: Individual and organisational factors in a European context
Sports clubs are often perceived as important mediums for social integration, but the empirical evidence to support this claim is limited. This article sets out to identify individual and organisational characteristics that are conducive to social integration of members and volunteers. Drawing on survey data from 13,000 members and volunteers in ten European countries, an exploratory factor analysis identified three dimensions of social integrati…
Social roles of sport organisations: Developments, Contexts and Challenges
port organisations are increasingly expected and encouraged to take up a wider social role. They are thought to foster social capital, social inclusion and democratic participation among organisational members, and to strengthen social cohesion in local communities. An increasing number of public institutions cooperate with sport organisations because of these supposedly positive spill-over effects. Next to these social roles for members and loca…
Sports clubs as a medium for integrating people with disabilities
Participation in sports clubs is often ascribed with the ability to promote social integration of people with disabilities, since it can provide a platform for creating social networks and friendships. However, integration is not reached automatically, and it is strongly reliant on specific factors and conditions. Therefore, this study compares the degree of social integration of members with and without disabilities and analyses individual and s…
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