Thomas Blackwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Blackwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwood |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWOOD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokyo International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences
Many observers have pointed out how baseball in Japan is narrated, taught, and played differently from its counterpart in North America. Hard-work, selfless behaviors, and defensive and collectivistic strategies are described as the basic tenets of Japanese baseball, often referred to as ‘Samurai Baseball’. This paper aims to investigate sports and non-sporting constraints that define this distinct way of perceiving the game. Ecological psycholog…
The discursive construction of hierarchy in Japanese society
The discursive construction of hierarchy in Japanese society: an ethnographic study of secondary school clubs." Asian Studies Review, 45(3), pp. 550–551
Join the club
Extracurricular clubs are widely believed to be an important part of education in Japan, and Japanese students devote an enormous amount of time and energy to them. Until recently, however, there has been very little research examining either the content or the outcomes of participation in such clubs. In this paper, based on a nationally representative survey of Japanese high school seniors (n = 3753) we examine the relationship between participa…
Playing baseball/playing ‘house’
Although Japanese schools are generally considered to be one of the most gender-equitable social institutions in Japan, they play an important role in helping to reproduce and naturalize the notion of sex-based separate spheres, through endorsing the maintenance of such separate spheres in extracurricular sports clubs, such as baseball, where female student 'managers' act as surrogate mothers to the male team members: cooking, cleaning and engagi…
Join the club
Extracurricular clubs are widely believed to be an important part of education in Japan, and Japanese students devote an enormous amount of time and energy to them. Until recently, however, there has been very little research examining either the content or the outcomes of participation in such clubs. In this paper, based on a nationally representative survey of Japanese high school seniors (n = 3753) we examine the relationship between participa…
Playing baseball/playing ‘house’
Although Japanese schools are generally considered to be one of the most gender-equitable social institutions in Japan, they play an important role in helping to reproduce and naturalize the notion of sex-based separate spheres, through endorsing the maintenance of such separate spheres in extracurricular sports clubs, such as baseball, where female student 'managers' act as surrogate mothers to the male team members: cooking, cleaning and engagi…
Playing baseball/playing ‘house’
Although Japanese schools are generally considered to be one of the most gender-equitable social institutions in Japan, they play an important role in helping to reproduce and naturalize the notion of sex-based separate spheres, through endorsing the maintenance of such separate spheres in extracurricular sports clubs, such as baseball, where female student 'managers' act as surrogate mothers to the male team members: cooking, cleaning and engagi…
Join the club
Extracurricular clubs are widely believed to be an important part of education in Japan, and Japanese students devote an enormous amount of time and energy to them. Until recently, however, there has been very little research examining either the content or the outcomes of participation in such clubs. In this paper, based on a nationally representative survey of Japanese high school seniors (n = 3753) we examine the relationship between participa…
The discursive construction of hierarchy in Japanese society
The discursive construction of hierarchy in Japanese society: an ethnographic study of secondary school clubs." Asian Studies Review, 45(3), pp. 550–551
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences
Many observers have pointed out how baseball in Japan is narrated, taught, and played differently from its counterpart in North America. Hard-work, selfless behaviors, and defensive and collectivistic strategies are described as the basic tenets of Japanese baseball, often referred to as ‘Samurai Baseball’. This paper aims to investigate sports and non-sporting constraints that define this distinct way of perceiving the game. Ecological psycholog…
Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 work)