Hoop Dreams on Wheels. Contemporary Sociological Perspectives.

by Ronald J. Berger

"Hoop Dreams on Wheels" is written in an accessible story-telling style, as it will be read by a general audience as well as by students in college courses on disability, sport, the body, and social problems. The main component of the book, the life histories of the players, will be especially appealing to students, who will find these accounts useful as a way to develop their sociological imagination, that is, an understanding of the interrelationship between biography and history in society and the ways in which personal troubles are related to public issues.By linking personal stories to collective narratives, the life histories reveal the world of ordinary people's 'problematic living experience, ' to quote Norman Denzin, and show how society 'speaks itself' through the lives of individuals. Additionally, the book is of interest to scholars in the sociology of disability, sociology of sport, sociology of the body, life-story researchers, and professionals in the fields of therapeutic recreation and rehabilitative counseling

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First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater