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Jones, Charles W. "Sociology in Sport." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3961.

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Kovac, Maja. "Positive futures for Serbian sport." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2015. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/11802/.

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This thesis is oriented towards the investigation of the opportunities for ‘positive futures’ in and through sport in Serbia. It critically explores the social significance of established and emerging sports—football (grassroots programme) and rugby league—in the challenging social context of Serbian society via the theoretical prism of social capital. Contemporary debate on sport’s social role, underlining its multidimensional capacity in the creation and maintenance of social capital and associated socially cohesive processes—social inclusion, social integration and active civic participatio

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Perks, Thomas A. "Coming to terms with sport, an analysis of the conceptual uncertainty surrounding the term sport within the field of sport sociology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/MQ42188.pdf.

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Fleming, Scott. "Sport and South Asian male youth." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314820.

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Twitchen, Alex Burton. "The body, sport and risk : an historical sociology of motor racing." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402252.

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Horne, J. D. "A critical analysis of sociology of sport : reflections on a research career." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652592.

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This is a thesis by research publications about the sociology study of sport. During the twentieth century sport has become an increasingly significant social practice for many people, yet the sociology of sport remains a relatively marginal sub-discipline. Following a brief biographical journey through the candidate's career as a sociological researcher and writer, an outline of the sociology of sport is presented that attempts to explain this marginality. It is argued that sport provides a useful focal point for sociological research for substantive, theoretical and methodological reasons. T

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Allen, Justine B. "Social motivation in sport." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4813.

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Fair, Brian. "Youth Hockey in South Boston| Sport and Community in an Urban Neighborhood." Thesis, Brandeis University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10117576.

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<p> This dissertation is about the relationship between sport and community in South Boston. It focuses on forms of community. First, it will show how communal relations are constructed within the arena of youth sport. Then, it will show how those communal relations within sport relate to community dynamics within the neighborhood as a whole. In this sense, more specifically, the dissertation asks the question: what is the relationship between community within the rink and community within the neighborhood? Therefore, this dissertation is about the various, layered connections between sport an

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Delalandre, Matthieu. "Sociologie des sciences de la performance sportive en France." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00511014.

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Les sciences de la performance sportive ont d'abord été sous tutelle de la sphère médicale et du monde de l'éducation physique. Elles se sont autonomisées et impliquent aujourd'hui une pluralité de chercheurs dans des institutions diverses, dont les finalités affichées vont de la production de connaissances théoriques à l'aide aux entraîneurs et aux sportifs. Ces institutions constituent des systèmes de contraintes et de ressources spécifiques, au regard de ces finalités, pour les scientifiques : ceux-ci doivent rendre visible, justifier ce qu'ils font et bénéficient en retour de ressources po

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Gustavsson, Maria. "Idrott, ungdomar och identitetsskapande : En studie i hur ungdomars identitetsskapande påverkas av utövandet av en lagidrott respektive en individuell idrott." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1114.

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<p>The main objective of this essay is to examine how the identities of young people are influenced by their choice of an individual sport or a team sport.</p><p>The following questions are the focus of the essay:</p><p>• How does the sport influence the creation of an identity for active young people?</p><p>• How will the choice of an individual sport or a team sport affect the development of an identity in young people who practises sport?</p><p>To achieve the objective of this essay I have used a qualitative research approach. The empirical material has been collected with help of eight sem

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Tompsett, James. "Inequalities in Sport Access and Participation among American High Schools." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499786737923446.

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Hutchins, Peter George. "Sport and regional pride : association football and the North East of England 1919-1961." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303093.

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Parr, Robert Glenn. "The sport and religious identities : comparisons of self involvement using the SII /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662145196.

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Dong, Jinxia. "Holding up more than half the sky : women, elite sport and society in New China." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273333.

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Gouda, Souaïbou. "Analyse organisationnelle des activités physiques et sportives dans un pays d'afrique noire : le Bénin." Grenoble 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986GRE10149.

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La recherche entreprise tente de repondre a plusieurs questions:- quel est le niveau quantitatif et qualitatif de pratiques sportives au benin. - qel est le fonctionnement reel du systeme sportif beninois. - quelle politique sportive pourrait envisager le benin pour repondre a la fois aux attentes et desirs de ses habitants, aux ambitions de l'etat et aux contraintes d'un pays d'afrique noire.

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Jarvie, Grant. "A sociological analysis of the Scottish Highland Games." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9473.

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Over the last two decades, or more, there has been a considerable interest in the sociological analysis of sport. While a number of Canadian, American and English sociologists and cultural critics have attempted to locate the development of various indigenous sporting forms within an analysis of their own culture, very few sociological accounts of Scottish sporting forms exist. This study deals with the development of the Scottish Highland Games. This study contends that, while an explanation of the complex ways in which this sporting form has developed provides a worthwhile area of sociologic

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Findlay-King, Lindsay Joanne. "Understanding sport and physical activity participation in the transition into early mid-life." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2008. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/105/.

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In my thesis I explain patterns and developments of current participation in sport and physical activity among a group of men and women in the transition to early mid-life (38-43 years of age). I examine their perceptions of the activity and sense of sporting identity over their lives. There is limited research on mid-life experiences of sport and physical activity and more often this takes a social survey approach. The interpretive research on mid-life is still an emerging field, previous research has often focused on a single sport sub-culture, those who are heavily involved in sport, or wom

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Cunelius, Erik. "Är dunderhonung dopning? : En undersökning av de budskap som förmedlas i samband med idrott i serietidningen Bamse." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-779.

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Sammanfattning Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med uppsatsen var att studera och analysera de budskap som förmedlas i samband med idrott i serietidningen Bamse. Frågeställningarna i arbetet var på vilket sätt förmedlingen sker respektive vilka budskap det är som förmedlas. Metod Datainsamlingen skedde genom textundersökning och bildanalys. Antalet årgångar av tidningen som studerades var sju (mellan år 2001 och 2007). Utöver detta studerades två nummer av Bamse-extra. Samtliga episoder i de angivna utgåvorna lästes igenom, men endast de delar analyserades där något idrottsinslag på ett ell

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Ferriter, Meghan M. "Changing the game? : gender, ethnicity, and age in mediated professional sport." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3000/.

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The aim of the research is to analyze the ways in which the cultural meanings of professional sport associated with gender, ethnicity, and age are changing in the U.K. and the U.S. in the context of international social processes. This study contributes to the examination of mediated sport, and therefore, wider sporting and social processes, in several ways. It assesses mediated sport discourses as reproducing existing power relations as arranged around the social categories of gender and ethnicity. It acknowledges hegemonic masculinity remains as a useful concept for understanding the constru

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Boyle, Joseph E. Jr. "Organized Sports Participation, Masculinity, and Attitudes toward Women." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36787.

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<p>Sport is one institution in U.S. society that, through embedded patterns of behavior, may contribute to an ideology of acceptance concerning gender inequality. Organized sport participation, which has been historically reserved for men, incorporates young men and boys into an institution that has its own norms and socialization processes.</p> <p>Research was conducted on college students currently enrolled at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A survey was administered to these college students during regularly scheduled class time. The survey was in part adapted from Th

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Comley, Cassie. "“Surfing? That’s a White Boy Sport”: An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican Americans’ Experiences with Southern California Surf Culture." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24533.

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The primary purpose of this ethnographic study is to contextualize Mexican American surfers experiences with sport as a lens into race, gender and class relations. Specifically, it seeks to understand how a history of gender, race, and class oppression has played out in this understudied terrain of sports. This study offers empirical insight into the ways in which Mexican Americans navigate and (un)successfully infiltrate predominantly white, male, middle-class sporting arenas. In this study I also examine the relationship between access and barriers, specifically how access to public recreati

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Stahl, Silvester. "Selbstorganisation von Migranten im deutschen Vereinssport : eine soziologische Annäherung." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5378/.

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Diese von der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam angenommene Dissertation thematisiert die Selbstorganisation von Migranten in eigenen Sportvereinen und auf anderen Ebenen des Vereinssports. Sie beruht auf den Ergebnissen eines vom Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft geförderten Forschungsprojekts der Universität Potsdam. Mit mehreren hundert Migrantensportvereinen in ganz Deutschland stellt der Sport einen der wichtigsten Gesellschaftsbereiche für die Selbstorganisation von Zuwanderern dar. Doch obwohl sich Migranten in der Bundesrepublik schon seit d

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Gubby, Laura. "Can sport provide a space for gender equality? : a qualitative study of children who play korfball." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2016. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/16628/.

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Mixed sport has been described as having the potential to de-gender sporting activities and bodily experiences, as well as combat gender inequalities (Laberge and Albert, 2000). Korfball was originally invented within the educational setting by a Dutch school teacher who designed rules to encourage boys and girls to participate on a level playing field (Summerfield and White, 1989). This thesis provides a historical overview of korfball in order to explain the contrasting trajectory of the sport in comparison to traditional sport, and explores the power structures and ideologies that may have

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Wheaton, Belinda. "Consumption, lifestyle and gendered identities in post-modern sports : the case of windsurfing." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387819.

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Cavalier, Elizabeth S. "Working it "Out": Employee Negotiations of Sexual Identity in Sport Organizations." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/47.

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This project examines the experiences of 37 gay, lesbian, and bisexual employees of professional, collegiate, and club sport. Using intensive, non-directive interviews and Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM), I explore how employees negotiate the near-total sport institution, perceive the environment for sexual minorities in sport, manage their sexual identities, and identify potential allies at work. Participants informed their beliefs about the sport workplace by the totality of their direct and indirect experiences, their observation of others, and their accumulated experiences in sport as at

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Anderson, Julie. "The soul of a nation : a social history of disabled people, physical therapy, rehabilitation and sport in Britain 1918-1970." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4173.

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Hardell, Emily B. "Youth Sport Development Pathways and Experiences of NCAA Division I Women's College Soccer Players." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686028.

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<p> As youth sport has become increasingly professionalized, many believe that the route to elite level play is through early specialization. Early specialization is a contentious issue, and many risk factors have been associated with high levels and intensities of training in youth. Youth today participate in highly competitive sport in pursuit of elite levels of play, recognition, and financial gain. Early specialization is thought to be a requirement for advancement, yet little is known about the early experiences of team sport athletes who grew up in the US. This is the story of 15 elite f

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Jennings, George Bradley. "Fighters, thinkers and shared cultivation : experiencing transformation through the long-term practice of traditionalist Chinese martial arts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/116974.

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Traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMAs) are popular in Britain, and some advocates have made extensive claims of their body-self transformation through sustained training. Despite extensive physiological research, there are few investigations of these practices regarding their socio-cultural practice. This qualitative sociological study examines long-term British practitioners’ experiences of transformation via Taijiquan (Tai Chi) and Wing Chun by addressing five issues: 1) Rationales behind practice 2) Resulting transformations 3) Explicit/implicit pedagogic strategies 4) Cultural transmi

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Vaughn, Jonathan S. "Genders in Play: Multiple Femininities and Masculinities in Male-Dominated Social Realms." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494249847678014.

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Bennett, Victoria. "Invisible women/hidden voices : women writing on sport in the twentieth century." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13292.

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Gutierrez, Diego Monteiro. "O Rugby, identidade e processos econômicos no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100134/tde-18082016-170712/.

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A dissertação cria um panorama amplo da prática do rugby no Brasil abordando aspectos sociológicos e históricos da modalidade em território nacional com o objetivo de compreender a sua prática, características e dinâmicas na atualidade. A partir do referencial teórico de Bourdieu e Mauss, entre outros, o trabalho constrói uma história do rugby no Brasil, utilizando como base documentos e entrevistas. A dissertação procura demonstrar que o rugby, inicialmente praticado quase que só por jogadores estrangeiros, termina por ser apropriado pelos brasileiros criando uma identidade própria e servindo

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Grundlingh, Susanna Maria. "Playing with a purpose : an ethnographic study of a sport-for-development programme in Mbekweni." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17985.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There has been a concerted effort by government departments and sport-for-development non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to use sport as a vehicle for sustainable social development in previously disadvantaged areas in South Africa. South Africa, considered to be a developing country and also a country where sporting achievement and excellence is venerated, brings to the fore an intriguing intersection between sport and development. The exponential growth of the sport-for-development field in the past two decades, both on an

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Ricci, Christiano Streb. "O futsal no ambiente escolar extracurricular: as perspectivas e objetivos de ensino de Instrutores/Treinadores atuantes em escolas particulares da cidade de Ribeirão Preto / SP." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59140/tde-19042018-094029/.

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Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar o sentido atribuído à prática esportiva escolar, descrito por Instrutores/Treinadores (I/T) de futsal no ambiente extracurricular de escolas particulares da cidade de Ribeirão Preto/SP. Estima-se que no Brasil cerca de 20 milhões de pessoas praticam o futsal de forma não oficial e cerca de 300 mil atletas jogam com algum tipo de vínculo federativo em instituição oficial. A opção pelos I/T foi devido à relevância destes que se encontram em lugar central em um processo de formação esportiva. A metodologia da pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, utilizou-se da

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Munro, Kay. "Nothing left to chance? : development of elite sport policy in Scotland, 1999-2003." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2035/.

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This thesis examines the state-supported system for elite-level sport in Scotland and considers whether or not that system is effective in terms of delivery to athletes and coaches and assesses the extent to which it was fair and equitable in terms of outcomes. The study is set within a feminist cultural studies framework that is enriched by qualitative study and based on the distinctively Scottish cultural and historical experience of the nature of sport. The thesis comprises of two major studies and the findings are based on original material collected from three main research methodologies:

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Vest, Emily Kate. "The war of positions : football in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10250.

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Research on the role sport might or can play in a post-conflict environment has tended to focus upon sport’s ability to deliver wider development objectives through that known as Sport-for-Development and Peace (SDP) interventions. Such programmes are somewhat notorious for over-looking the wider influence of the pre-established domestic sporting milieus. An ethnographic study of the role sport – and in this case specifically football - plays in what is known as a ‘returnee’ village within the Bosnian Serb Entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina is herein presented in an attempt to understand the complex

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Sartore, Melanie L. "An exploration of the lesbian label among health and kinesiology department academicians." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1546.

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Carter, Eric Michael. "Failing at success: a Durkheimian analysis of anomie and deviant behavior among national football league players." Diss., Kansas State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/223.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work<br>Robert K. Schaeffer<br>This exploratory research project has utilized a mixed-method (Seiber 1973; Creswell 1994, 2005; Jick 1979; Dexter 1970) approach to examine why some NFL players participate in deviant, and sometimes law breaking, behavior and others do not. Using Dexter’s (1970) qualitative technique of elite and specialized interviewing along with Schatzman’s and Strauss’s (1973) naturalistic field method, access was gained into an exclusive group of current and former NFL players. The qualitative findi

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Marques, Renato Francisco Rodrigues. "O esporte paraolímpico no Brasil : abordagem da sociologia do esporte de Pierre Bourdieu." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/274735.

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Orientador: Gustavo Luis Gutierrez<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T03:47:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marques_RenatoFranciscoRodrigues_D.pdf: 2101555 bytes, checksum: c7cc63506bee5c90178361db2cf8823d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: O presente trabalho teve por objetivo geral investigar e delimitar, com base em análise sociológica proposta na obra de Pierre Bourdieu, questões ligadas às formas de interação social presentes no sub-campo do esporte paraolímpico brasileiro. Os objetivos

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Gordon, Kiernan O. "The Experiential Aspects of Sport Stadiums: An Examination of Emotion and Memory." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366236922.

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Mc, Nutt Matthew. "Understanding underrepresentation of female high-performance coaches in Swedish Sport." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen Idrottsvetenskap (IDV), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18531.

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Historically, women like other marginalized and discriminated groups, have been compared to the manly model of sport as ‘others’ and often it is their feminine characteristics that are focused upon. In the coaching profession, women have yet to break through and be seen as equals to their male counterparts. Even as the number of women taking part in sports is increasing and equity between men’s and women’s sports is growing, there still remains areas within sport where women continue to struggle to gain more influence and power. High-performance coaching is an area where growth has been slow f

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Cooprider, Joshua Mathew. "A comparative study on the importance of winning within university sport in England and the United States." Thesis, Coventry University, 2008. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/429/.

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This thesis draws from a bi-national comparative study on the importance of ‘winning’ within university sport in England and the United States, in two institutions, University College Worcester (UCW) and the British University Sport Association (BUSA) in England and Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. The thesis focuses on perceptions and attitudes related to the ‘amateur’ – ‘commercial’ ethos of winning, specifically of administrative personnel, coaches and athletes within these systems. In order to provide a contex

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Baxter, Lucy. "Manufacturing consent or playing the game : an analysis of gender power relations in two sport related organisations." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2001. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1088/.

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The goal of this study is to examine the dynamics under-pinning the reproduction or transformation of gender power relations within two sport organisations. Across society we have images of women making ground and experiencing far greater prospects than ever before. Yet, on the other hand, this is bound up with continuous examples of little progress in work. For instance, while there are more opportunities for women across work than at any other point in the 20th Century, they continue to be segregated from men in a large number of jobs. Similar gendered patterns of progress are reflected in s

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Hodges, Ariel C. "Where Do I Play Next? A Sociological Study of Student-Athletes, Their Retirement Transition and Their Social and Emotional Support Systems." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524585381500747.

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Awde, Cory. "A community built on the pond: Social cohesion, sport tourism and the World Pond Hockey Championships." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27619.

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Neoliberalism and globalization have contributed to an environment of economic uncertainty in rural Canada, raising concern for the social well-being of its residents. Despite immense challenges, many rural communities possess positive elements of social cohesion that can be used by the community in the pursuit of their communal objectives. This thesis uses social cohesion as a theoretical framework to examine this rural social environment, its relationship with sport tourism and sport's ability to foster social cohesion. Using Plaster Rock, New Brunswick and the World Pond Hockey Championship

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Purdue, David. "Conflict and consensus within the paralympic field : a sociological investigation of an elite disability sport competition." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8367.

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This research provides a sociological investigation of an elite disability sport competition known as the Paralympic Games. A quadrennial multi-sport competition for individuals with specific impairments, the Paralympic Games, is explored in this thesis through the method of semi-structured interviews. Individuals interviewed included current and former Paralympians, active and retired disability sport administrators as well as social researchers of disability and disability sport. A number of themes surface in this research which identifies and begins to explore the relationships between the

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Sammelin, Johan. "Spornosexualitet : Män, maskulinitet och den manliga kroppen." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35298.

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During the last decade of the twentieth century both ’manhood’ and gender studies seems to have undergone changes. With the field of masculinity and the critical studies of men, added as ’subsections’ of broader gender studies, new knowledge has been produced to better grasp the production of gender and power relations of patriarchy. During the same decade as the ’metrosexual’ first appeared of the urban stage, acts of homophobia and attitudes towards ’manhood’ seems to have changed. The ’macho’ ideal from the eighties apparently gave way for a more inclusive and gentle masculinity and this ’s

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Horsfield, Lindsey Claire. "Homeless football : an exploration of theory and practice." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13744.

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Those individuals in our midst without a firm and fixed place to call home in society have elicited variously: fear, disgust, disdain, punishment, pity, nostalgia, and curiosity. The transience of their lives positions them ‘outside the city walls’ both literally and symbolically. These widely negative perceptions see those who experience Homelessness to be burdened both physically and emotionally. This vastly complicated issue is one, seemingly, without a solution. So what can sport, specifically football, offer to that which has hitherto failed to erase this issue? Homelessness and sport man

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Watts, Alison J. "Embodied Conflict: Women Athletes Negotiating the Body and Identity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/111289.

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Sociology<br>Ph.D.<br>Breaking out of the traditional expectations of femininity, women participating in sports, particularly physically aggressive sports, challenge the dominant framework of a sex/gender binary. The reading of essential difference between the bodies of men and women has been central to the history of women's involvement in sports. Historically, women's bodies have been considered incommensurable with and even in danger of damage from participation within the male world of sport. In the current climate of sport, women athletes embody a peculiar dilemma as their participation i

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Adams, Keith Gordon. "Finding the Balance between Academic and Sport Motivation| A Study of NCAA Division I Student-Athletes." Thesis, Grand Canyon University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13421604.

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<p> The purpose of this quantitative, correlational research was to assess the relationship between academic motivation and sport motivation among NCAA Division I student athletes enrolled at colleges and universities in the southern and western regions of the United States. The theoretical foundation was based on the Self-Determination Theory. The Self-Determination Theory includes three specific types of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation. The study was comprised of three research questions, which were designed to determine the relationship between academic and sport intrinsic

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Ed-Dahbi, Malika. "La structuration et le développement du sport au Yémen Contexte et contraintes." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00567221.

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De « l'Arabie Heureuse » à la République du Yémen, le Yémen contemporain réunifié de 1990 connaît des difficultés de développement et de croissance, et reste un des pays les plus pauvres du monde marqué par d'importantes inégalités. Parmi les secteurs prioritaires de développement, le sport et son modèle occidental peut-il connaître un développement au Yémen ? Depuis son introduction vers 1900, par l'occupation Britannique au Yémen du Sud, le sport connaît une histoire coloniale jusqu'à sa réunification avec le Yémen du Nord. Le Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, le mouvement sportif (féd

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