Sport, Trust, and Social Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2299149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph D Lewandowski (0000-0002-2046-1846, University of Central Missouri, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 386-405 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-1322 • E-ISSN: 1569-1330 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15691330-12341466 |
| OpenAlex | W2808871560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
Research in social capital has appealed to the causal power of sport to generate the kinds of generalized trust, ties, and networks that make for more prosperous communities and more democratic societies. Indeed, Robert Putnam'sBowling Alone(2001) takes as the core of its argument the idea that participation in bowling clubs in the United States contributed, in no small way, to 'making democracy work' in America. In this way sport appears to be construed as a mechanism for the production of generalized trust and, more broadly, social capital. This study scrutinizes Putnam's understanding of sport in an effort to make explicit the limits of what participation in sport can be expected to contribute to the formation of generalized trust and social capital. In the context of sport, generalized trust and social capital, the author argues, are best understood in theoretical and empirical terms as stratified and stratifying features of human interaction. Sport does not produce generalized trust and social capital but rather re-produces and reinforces the presence of such resources along socioeconomic and ethnoracial lines
Argument (complex analysis · Capital (architecture · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Economic capital · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human capital · Individual capital · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social capital · Social mobility · Social reproduction · Social science · Social status · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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Linking social capital
Young refugees' experiences of accumulating horizontal and vertical social capital through organised and informal sports
Social capital and health among participants in the cachibol league in Israel
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |