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Social exclusion and established-outsider relations in a British tennis club

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ID2378065
AuthorsRobert J Lake (0000-0003-0219-3718, University of Western Ontario, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume48
Issue1
Pages112-128
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1012690211424523
OpenAlexW2030484078
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited43

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the Lawn Tennis Association introduced numerous policies to remove barriers associated with social exclusion in tennis clubs. Ethnographic research was conducted within one club to analyse the incidence of social exclusion, and consider the success of LTA policies in these regards. Findings suggested the club made structural changes to receive LTA funding, such as removing exclusive membership and clothing restrictions, hiring coaches and establishing school-club links, yet its culture remained almost entirely inaccessible to new members. For analysis, Elias and Scotson's 'Established-Outsider Relations' theoretical framework is applied: to discover who was excluded, how and why, and, to set the outcomes of power struggles between members in the wider social and historical contexts of changing LTA policies

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