Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries

by Ramón Spaaij

Book Overview

Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in which sport facilitates or inhibits upward social mobility.

Drawing on four case studies, the book provides a rich sociological analysis of people's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415874882
• ISBN13: 9780415874885
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"