Paradoxes of Youth and Sport

294 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists from diverse fields examine how sport can address social ills and act as a resource in the lives of disadvantaged youth versus how sport itself harbors and fosters social problems and is dominated by unequal access, the obsession to win, and commercialization. This book places sport at the crossroads of inquiry and practice regarding critical issues of our time, including youth development; violence; racial, gender, and class inequities; and inter-group relations.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791453247
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.03.2002
• Größe: 228 x 150 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Herausgegeben von: Margaret Gatz, Michael A. Messner, Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach