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Child's Play - Sport in Kids' Worlds (Paperback)
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Child's Play - Sport in Kids' Worlds (Paperback)
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics
and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health,
whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or
prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic.
Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue,
considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but
its psychological and social ramifications as well. The eleven
original scholarly essays in this collection provide a probing look
into how sports - in community athletic leagues, in schools, and
even on television - play a major role in how young people view
themselves, shape their identities, and imagine their place in
society. Rather than focusing exclusively on self-proclaimed jocks,
the book considers how the culture of sports affects a wide variety
of children and young people, including those who opt out of
athletics. Not only does Child's Play examine disparities across
lines of race, class, and gender, it also offers detailed
examinations of how various minority populations, from transgender
youth to Muslim immigrant girls, have participated in youth sports.
Taken together, these essays offer a wide range of approaches to
understanding the sociology of youth sports, including data-driven
analyses that examine national trends, as well as ethnographic
research that gives a voice to individual kids. Child's Play thus
presents a comprehensive and compelling analysis of how, for better
and for worse, the culture of sports is integral to the development
of young people - and with them, the future of our society.
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