Paradoxes of Youth and Sport

by Margaret Jean Gatz (Editor), Michael A. Messner (Series Editor), Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach (Series Editor)

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 practitionersconcerning 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.

294 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

Reviews

[CEHD at the U of M]

Mary Jo Kane, contributor.

[Mackenzie Orlosky]

Read for class (Adolescents and Sports: SOC316, Fall 2018)