Social class and the emergent organised sporting habits of primary-aged children
| Autor: | Sharon Wheeler, Ken Green, Miranda Thurston |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Middle class Primary schooling media_common.quotation_subject Repertoire 05 social sciences 050301 education Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 030229 sport sciences Social class Education Physical education Developmental psychology Activity participation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Working class medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Psychology human activities 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Physical Education Review |
| ISSN: | 1356-336X |
| Popis: | This is the author’s version of the article published in European Physical Education Review. The article has been peer-reviewed, but does not include the publisher’s layout, page numbers and proof-corrections. Citation for the published paper: Wheeler, S., Green, K. S. & Thurston, M. (2017). Social class and the emergent organised sporting habits of primary-aged children. European Physical Education Review, 1-20. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356336X17706092 This paper reports on the patterns of participation in organised sports of youngsters coming towards the end of primary school, with a view to identifying emergent sporting habits in relation to social class gradients. The data for the study were generated via 90 semistructured interviews with parents and children from 62 families. The data revealed differences in organised activity participation (both at and beyond school) between an ‘under-class’ and combined middle-class groups of children, as well as within-class gradients among the middleclass sub-groups. There were, for example, substantial differences between the underclass group and the combined middle-class group in terms of both the average number of bouts of organised sports participation and the repertoire or variety of sports engaged with. In effect, the mid- and upper-middle-class children were already sporting and cultural omnivores by the final years of primary schooling. We conclude that while the primary school organised sporting ‘offer’ may be neither a sufficient nor even a necessary contribution to the emerging sporting habits of mid- and upper-middle-class children, for under-class children it is likely to be necessary even though it may still prove, in the longer run, insufficient |
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