Social class and the emergent organised sporting habits of primary-aged children
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Soziale Klasse und die vorkommenden regelmäßigen Teilnahmen am organisierten Sport von Kindern im Grundschulalter |
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Autor: | Wheeler, Sharon; Green, Ken; Thurston, Miranda |
Erschienen in: | European physical education review |
Veröffentlicht: | 25 (2019), 1, S. 89-108, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource Elektronische Ressource (online) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1356-336X, 1741-2749 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1356336X17706092 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201903002502 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
This paper reports on the patterns of participation in organised sports of youngsters coming towards the end of primary school, with a view to identifying emergent sporting habits in relation to social class gradients. The data for the study were generated via 90 semi-structured interviews with parents and children from 62 families. The data revealed differences in organised activity participation (both at and beyond school) between an ‘under-class’ and combined middle-class groups of children, as well as within-class gradients among the middle-class sub-groups. There were, for example, substantial differences between the under-class group and the combined middle-class group in terms of both the average number of bouts of organised sports participation and the repertoire or variety of sports engaged with. In effect, the mid- and upper-middle-class children were already sporting and cultural omnivores by the final years of primary schooling. We conclude that while the primary school organised sporting ‘offer’ may be neither a sufficient nor even a necessary contribution to the emerging sporting habits of mid- and upper-middle-class children, for under-class children it is likely to be necessary even though it may still prove, in the longer run, insufficient.