Perspectives on the meaning of children’s sport for adulthood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6144910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Staffan Karp (0000-0001-6080-173X, Umeå University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-129 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/16138171.2010.11687850 |
| OpenAlex | W328943450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article is about what participation in organized sport in childhood and youth means for growing up and how it influences values in adulthood. In 2000 the results of interviews with parents and children relating to football and golf were presented. Those results showed that learning processes differ between football and golf: socialization in football corresponds to the methods and aims of child rearing in lower social strata and in golf with child rearing in higher social strata. Four of the children from the earlier study have now been interviewed. Today these are young adults aged 25-29. The results indicate that the young adults – the former footballers and golfers – have different patterns of values about learning and childrearing. The conclusion is that participating in organized sports as a child or young person contributes to a feeling of social belonging and to the construction of a social identity. For the footballers it is rather an identity close to the working and lower middle classes and for the golfers an identity close to the upper middle class. The conclusion is, furthermore, that children’s sport contributes to the reproduction of differences between social strata in society
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |