Sport and Social Capital

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ISBN: 9780750685863 | 0750685867
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/2008

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Sport and Social Capital is the first book to examine this increasingly high-profile area in depth. It explores the ways in which sport contributes to the creation, development, maintenance and, in some cases, diminution of social capital.

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List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Sport and social capital: An introduction	p. 1
Concepts and Contexts
Avoiding the numbers game: Social theory, policy and sport's role in the art of relationship building	p. 21
Sport-in-development: Development for and through sport?	p. 39
Locating social capital in sport policy	p. 69
Narrowing the gap through sport, education and social capital?	p. 93
Clubs and Community Sport Organizations
Community sport networks	p. 113
Voluntary sport clubs: The potential for the development of social capital	p. 143
Community sport/recreation members and social capital measures in Sweden and Australia	p. 165
Volunteering in community sport organizations: Implications for social capital	p. 187
Sport and Social Capital in Action
Sport's ambiguous relationship with social capital: The contribution of national governing bodies of sport	p. 207
Public policies, social capital and voluntary sport	p. 233
Race equality and sport networks: Social capital links	p. 257
Stepping into community? The impact of youth sport volunteering on young people's social capital	p. 285
Soccer and social capital in Australia: Social networks in transition	p. 317
Sport facilities as social capital	p. 339
Subject and Author Index	p. 359
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