Resources at the Grassroots of Recreation

Organizational Capacity and Quality of Experience in a Community Sport Organization

Bibliographic Data

ID11216622
AuthorsErin K Sharpe (Brock University, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume28
Issue4
Pages385-401
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLeisure Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-0400 • E-ISSN: 1521-0588
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01490400600745894
OpenAlexW2049387301
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited41

Grassroots recreation organizations are volunteer-run informal organizations that deliver sport and recreation at the local level. Using a qualitative case study approach, this study examined how the quality of experience in one community sport organization was affected by organizational capacity, or the ability of the organization to mobilize financial, human, and structural capital to fulfill its mission. While the volunteers mobilized social capital, the league experienced significant shortages of human capital including the professional competencies to meet increasingly complex administrative demands. This finding raises concerns about potential disenfranchisement of volunteers. Keywords: grassroots organizationssocial capitalhuman capitalleisure services deliveryvolunteering Notes 1 Although human capital and cultural capital are treated as analogous forms of "embodied capital" here, it is worth noting that CitationBourdieu (1984), Citation(2005) distanced himself from the term "human capital," a term that has its roots in traditional economic theory. Bourdieu critiqued the term for how it tended to be applied in a functionalist manner, in that analyses assumed that human capital was acquired through "natural aptitude," rather than recognizing that one's "aptitude" is embedded within a cultural field that differentially favors the dominant class of that field

Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Financial capital · Grassroots · Human capital · Human resources · Individual capital · Political science · Public relations · Recreation · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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