Paradoxes of Youth and Sport

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.

About the author

Margaret Gatz is Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, and the editor of Emerging Issues in Mental Health and Aging. Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, and the author of Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements and Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity. Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach is Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Southern California, and coeditor, with Melvin L. DeFleur, of Theories of Mass Communication.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sandra J Ball-Rokeach (Editor), Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach (Editor), Ball-Rokeach Sandra J. (Editor), Margaret Gatz (Editor), Gatz Margaret (Editor), Michael A Messner (Editor), Michael A. Messner (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2002
• EAN: 9780791453230
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5323-0
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Transpersonal a; SUNY Series in Transpersonal a; Suny Sport, Culture, and Socia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology