Maria T Allison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4220977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria T Allison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria T |
| FAMILY NAME | Allison |
| SIGNATURE | ALLISON M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Race and Ethnicity in Leisure Behavior: Where Have We Been and Where Do We Need to Go
Note: These ideas were discussed at a symposium titled "Looking Beyond Traditional Models: Racial and Ethnic Issues in Leisure Research" that was sponsored by the Diversity Research Laboratory in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Organizational Barriers to Inclusion: Perspectives from the Recreation Professional
Recreation professionals continually strive to serve a host of diverse program con-stituents, while leisure researchers attempt to uncover barriers to leisure participation. Much of the barriers or constraints research has come from the perspective of program participants. This study identified, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 recre-ation professionals, the issues and barriers that they perceive inhibit recreation program access and a…
The lived body experience of domestic violence survivors
Leisure, Diversity and Social Justice
KEYWORDS: Social justicediversityinstitutional inequitymarginalization
Organizational Barriers to Diversity in the Workplace
The purpose of this study was to identify, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 professional women and people of color, how park and recreation agencies dealt with diversity issues and programs. In-depth interviews focused on the organizational climate and the institutional barriers these individuals perceived and/or experienced in the workplace. Guiding questions included: 1) What are the organizational policies, principles, and practices…
The question of relevance: Introductory comments
(1995). The question of relevance: Introductory comments. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 121-124
Nature of leisure activities among the Chinese‐American elderly
Despite the growing literature on the elderly population, there has been relatively little research on the nature of leisure among culturally diverse elderly populations. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the patterns and nature of leisure among a particular ethnic population, the Chinese‐American elderly. Qualitative techniques were used to identify the types of activities engaged in, the nature of those activities, and the r…
Group Dynamics in the Himalayas
Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data, this study analyzes the nature of group formation and development during a trekking expedition through the Himalayas. Data indicated that the group went through six stages which were similar to those described in previous literature. Despite the similarity in the nature of stages, the sequencing of stages was different. Specifically, group conflict developed much later than that which is experienc…
The attributional theory of achievement motivation: Cross-cultural considerations
Women, work, and flow
Paid work outside the home is becoming the norm for the majority of women in America. Men have traditionally devoted most of their energies to work and have derived from it the main support for their personal identities. How do women experience work? Are they also able to find productive activities in the workplace meaningful and rewarding, or does socialization into the feminine homemaker role prevent women from deriving the same kind of satisfa…
Career Problems and Retirement among Elite Athletes: The Female Tennis Professional
This investigation used qualitative techniques to identify and analyze the experiences of elite female tennis professionals and their perceptions of their competitive years and subsequent retirement from the sport. Through a system of networking and snowball sampling techniques (Babbie, 1986), 28 athletes who had played on the professional tennis circuit were contacted and asked to complete an extensive semistructured questionnaire; 20 completed …
Breaking boundaries and barriers: Future directions in cross‐cultural research
The level and degree of understanding of the nature and meaning of leisure in the lives of blacks, native‐Americans, Hispanics, and other ethnic minority populations within the United States is lacking. Most research to date has utilized a social aggregate approach to the study of ethnic/racial differentiation; such research overlooks the dynamics and complexity of ethnicity within poly‐ethnic, pluralistic societies. The objectives of this articl…
Kaleidoscope and Prism: The Study of Social Change in Play, Sport, and Leisure
This paper explores the process of social change and problems that arise in the study of such change in play, sport, and leisure domains. After outlining major theoretical perspectives utilized to describe and explain the nature of change in society, the paper describes several myths, including myths of trauma, unidirectionality, deviance, and semantic illusion (Lauer, 1973), which have inhibited the study of change. Drawing from examples in play…
Women, work, and leisure: The days of our lives
Utilizing a qualitative research methodology, this study attempts to identify and understand the experience of enjoyment (or lack thereof) within the work and nonwork (i.e., family, leisure) spheres of working women. Specifically, the study attempts to identify the contexts in which professional and blue‐collar women experience flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1975) or its antithesis (i.e., anti‐flow) which can be characterized by boredom, frustration, and…
Role Conflict and the Elite Female Athlete: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Dilemmas
Whereas gender-related literature portrays an image of psychological struggle, role conflict and identity crisis for the female athelete, empirical studies indicate that female athletes perceive and experience a relatively low level of conflict, regardless of their age, level of competitive experience and the sport in which they compete. This study further supports these findings. 44 female powerlifters competing at the 1981 National US champions…
Sport, Culture and Socialization
In the article the author makes explicit the relationship between culture and socialization. Much past work in sport socialization has ignored the impact and influence of culture on the socialization process. This paper critiques past ap proaches to socialization from a cultural perspective, and demonstrates, through the use of ethnographic data, an interactionist approach to the process
Competition and Cooperation: A Sociocultural Perspective
The processes of competition and cooperation have frequently been discussed as sport specific states which have not been linked to the larger sociocultural context in which they are found. Thus, beyond the behavioural manifestations of competition and cooperation as task states, the meanings and definitions of each will vary to quite a degree by culture. The purpose of this paper is to: 1) briefly review the major orientations to competition and …
On the Ethnicity of Ethnic1 Minorities in Sport
This paper presents a discussion of the way in which ethnicity has been viewed in the sporting context. It is suggested that the assimilation-acculturation paradigm which is often utilized to discuss ethnic minority participation is insufficient. Speci fically, the paradigm as it is now formulated oversimplifies the dynamics of the ethnic factor in sport. The author attempts to reformulate the nature of the questions asked and presents alternate …
A Comparative Analysis of Navaho Indian and Anglo Basketball Sport Systems
The purpose of the paper is to identify the ways in which two distinct cultural groups adopt and incorporate a single sport, namely basketball, and transform it into distinct cultural entities. Specifically, comparative data from the basketball sport systems of the Navaho Indians and the Anglo cultures of the southwestern United States is presented. Relying on the Simmelian distinction between form and content, the authors identify and discuss se…
Leisure, Diversity and Social Justice
KEYWORDS: Social justicediversityinstitutional inequitymarginalization
Race and Ethnicity in Leisure Behavior: Where Have We Been and Where Do We Need to Go
Note: These ideas were discussed at a symposium titled "Looking Beyond Traditional Models: Racial and Ethnic Issues in Leisure Research" that was sponsored by the Diversity Research Laboratory in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Organizational Barriers to Diversity in the Workplace
The purpose of this study was to identify, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 professional women and people of color, how park and recreation agencies dealt with diversity issues and programs. In-depth interviews focused on the organizational climate and the institutional barriers these individuals perceived and/or experienced in the workplace. Guiding questions included: 1) What are the organizational policies, principles, and practices…
Organizational Barriers to Inclusion: Perspectives from the Recreation Professional
Recreation professionals continually strive to serve a host of diverse program con-stituents, while leisure researchers attempt to uncover barriers to leisure participation. Much of the barriers or constraints research has come from the perspective of program participants. This study identified, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 recre-ation professionals, the issues and barriers that they perceive inhibit recreation program access and a…
Breaking boundaries and barriers: Future directions in cross‐cultural research
The level and degree of understanding of the nature and meaning of leisure in the lives of blacks, native‐Americans, Hispanics, and other ethnic minority populations within the United States is lacking. Most research to date has utilized a social aggregate approach to the study of ethnic/racial differentiation; such research overlooks the dynamics and complexity of ethnicity within poly‐ethnic, pluralistic societies. The objectives of this articl…
Women, work, and leisure: The days of our lives
Utilizing a qualitative research methodology, this study attempts to identify and understand the experience of enjoyment (or lack thereof) within the work and nonwork (i.e., family, leisure) spheres of working women. Specifically, the study attempts to identify the contexts in which professional and blue‐collar women experience flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1975) or its antithesis (i.e., anti‐flow) which can be characterized by boredom, frustration, and…
Nature of leisure activities among the Chinese‐American elderly
Despite the growing literature on the elderly population, there has been relatively little research on the nature of leisure among culturally diverse elderly populations. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the patterns and nature of leisure among a particular ethnic population, the Chinese‐American elderly. Qualitative techniques were used to identify the types of activities engaged in, the nature of those activities, and the r…
Career Problems and Retirement among Elite Athletes: The Female Tennis Professional
This investigation used qualitative techniques to identify and analyze the experiences of elite female tennis professionals and their perceptions of their competitive years and subsequent retirement from the sport. Through a system of networking and snowball sampling techniques (Babbie, 1986), 28 athletes who had played on the professional tennis circuit were contacted and asked to complete an extensive semistructured questionnaire; 20 completed …
The attributional theory of achievement motivation: Cross-cultural considerations
The lived body experience of domestic violence survivors
Kaleidoscope and Prism: The Study of Social Change in Play, Sport, and Leisure
This paper explores the process of social change and problems that arise in the study of such change in play, sport, and leisure domains. After outlining major theoretical perspectives utilized to describe and explain the nature of change in society, the paper describes several myths, including myths of trauma, unidirectionality, deviance, and semantic illusion (Lauer, 1973), which have inhibited the study of change. Drawing from examples in play…
Role Conflict and the Elite Female Athlete: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Dilemmas
Whereas gender-related literature portrays an image of psychological struggle, role conflict and identity crisis for the female athelete, empirical studies indicate that female athletes perceive and experience a relatively low level of conflict, regardless of their age, level of competitive experience and the sport in which they compete. This study further supports these findings. 44 female powerlifters competing at the 1981 National US champions…
On the Ethnicity of Ethnic1 Minorities in Sport
This paper presents a discussion of the way in which ethnicity has been viewed in the sporting context. It is suggested that the assimilation-acculturation paradigm which is often utilized to discuss ethnic minority participation is insufficient. Speci fically, the paradigm as it is now formulated oversimplifies the dynamics of the ethnic factor in sport. The author attempts to reformulate the nature of the questions asked and presents alternate …
A Comparative Analysis of Navaho Indian and Anglo Basketball Sport Systems
The purpose of the paper is to identify the ways in which two distinct cultural groups adopt and incorporate a single sport, namely basketball, and transform it into distinct cultural entities. Specifically, comparative data from the basketball sport systems of the Navaho Indians and the Anglo cultures of the southwestern United States is presented. Relying on the Simmelian distinction between form and content, the authors identify and discuss se…
Competition and Cooperation: A Sociocultural Perspective
The processes of competition and cooperation have frequently been discussed as sport specific states which have not been linked to the larger sociocultural context in which they are found. Thus, beyond the behavioural manifestations of competition and cooperation as task states, the meanings and definitions of each will vary to quite a degree by culture. The purpose of this paper is to: 1) briefly review the major orientations to competition and …
Sport, Culture and Socialization
In the article the author makes explicit the relationship between culture and socialization. Much past work in sport socialization has ignored the impact and influence of culture on the socialization process. This paper critiques past ap proaches to socialization from a cultural perspective, and demonstrates, through the use of ethnographic data, an interactionist approach to the process
Role Conflict and the Elite Female Athlete: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Dilemmas
Whereas gender-related literature portrays an image of psychological struggle, role conflict and identity crisis for the female athelete, empirical studies indicate that female athletes perceive and experience a relatively low level of conflict, regardless of their age, level of competitive experience and the sport in which they compete. This study further supports these findings. 44 female powerlifters competing at the 1981 National US champions…
Kaleidoscope and Prism: The Study of Social Change in Play, Sport, and Leisure
This paper explores the process of social change and problems that arise in the study of such change in play, sport, and leisure domains. After outlining major theoretical perspectives utilized to describe and explain the nature of change in society, the paper describes several myths, including myths of trauma, unidirectionality, deviance, and semantic illusion (Lauer, 1973), which have inhibited the study of change. Drawing from examples in play…
Women, work, and leisure: The days of our lives
Utilizing a qualitative research methodology, this study attempts to identify and understand the experience of enjoyment (or lack thereof) within the work and nonwork (i.e., family, leisure) spheres of working women. Specifically, the study attempts to identify the contexts in which professional and blue‐collar women experience flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1975) or its antithesis (i.e., anti‐flow) which can be characterized by boredom, frustration, and…
Women, work, and flow
Paid work outside the home is becoming the norm for the majority of women in America. Men have traditionally devoted most of their energies to work and have derived from it the main support for their personal identities. How do women experience work? Are they also able to find productive activities in the workplace meaningful and rewarding, or does socialization into the feminine homemaker role prevent women from deriving the same kind of satisfa…
Career Problems and Retirement among Elite Athletes: The Female Tennis Professional
This investigation used qualitative techniques to identify and analyze the experiences of elite female tennis professionals and their perceptions of their competitive years and subsequent retirement from the sport. Through a system of networking and snowball sampling techniques (Babbie, 1986), 28 athletes who had played on the professional tennis circuit were contacted and asked to complete an extensive semistructured questionnaire; 20 completed …
Breaking boundaries and barriers: Future directions in cross‐cultural research
The level and degree of understanding of the nature and meaning of leisure in the lives of blacks, native‐Americans, Hispanics, and other ethnic minority populations within the United States is lacking. Most research to date has utilized a social aggregate approach to the study of ethnic/racial differentiation; such research overlooks the dynamics and complexity of ethnicity within poly‐ethnic, pluralistic societies. The objectives of this articl…
The attributional theory of achievement motivation: Cross-cultural considerations
Group Dynamics in the Himalayas
Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data, this study analyzes the nature of group formation and development during a trekking expedition through the Himalayas. Data indicated that the group went through six stages which were similar to those described in previous literature. Despite the similarity in the nature of stages, the sequencing of stages was different. Specifically, group conflict developed much later than that which is experienc…
Nature of leisure activities among the Chinese‐American elderly
Despite the growing literature on the elderly population, there has been relatively little research on the nature of leisure among culturally diverse elderly populations. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the patterns and nature of leisure among a particular ethnic population, the Chinese‐American elderly. Qualitative techniques were used to identify the types of activities engaged in, the nature of those activities, and the r…
The question of relevance: Introductory comments
(1995). The question of relevance: Introductory comments. Leisure Sciences: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 121-124
Organizational Barriers to Diversity in the Workplace
The purpose of this study was to identify, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 professional women and people of color, how park and recreation agencies dealt with diversity issues and programs. In-depth interviews focused on the organizational climate and the institutional barriers these individuals perceived and/or experienced in the workplace. Guiding questions included: 1) What are the organizational policies, principles, and practices…
The lived body experience of domestic violence survivors
Leisure, Diversity and Social Justice
KEYWORDS: Social justicediversityinstitutional inequitymarginalization
Organizational Barriers to Inclusion: Perspectives from the Recreation Professional
Recreation professionals continually strive to serve a host of diverse program con-stituents, while leisure researchers attempt to uncover barriers to leisure participation. Much of the barriers or constraints research has come from the perspective of program participants. This study identified, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 recre-ation professionals, the issues and barriers that they perceive inhibit recreation program access and a…
Race and Ethnicity in Leisure Behavior: Where Have We Been and Where Do We Need to Go
Note: These ideas were discussed at a symposium titled "Looking Beyond Traditional Models: Racial and Ethnic Issues in Leisure Research" that was sponsored by the Diversity Research Laboratory in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Recreation (6 works)