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A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket

Daniel Read, Ivan Thomas, Aaron C.T. Smith, and James Skinner

were using painkillers. The influence of family is important as attitudes toward the body and physical activity will have been influenced by socialization during childhood learned from family members ( Longchamp et al., 2023 ; Shilling, 2004 ). The motivations outlined by Overbye ( 2021 ) should be

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Being Involved in Sports or Giving Up: The Effects of Context on Teenage Girls’ Practice in French Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods

Carine Guérandel

stereotyped from the point of view of the gendered division of labor: they are assigned to roles assisting men or relatives in the domestic sphere and those of early childhood care. This local finding of a power relationship to the disadvantage of women is consistent with the results of national surveys on

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Paternal Closeness in Adolescence: The Association of Sports and Gender

Tom R. Leppard and Mikaela J. Dufur

. Sport as a Pathway for Promoting Father–Child Relationships Sociology of sport scholars capture multiple ways in which sports exert positive effects on childhood and adolescent outcomes, including better health outcomes ( Moore & Werch, 2005 ), higher educational achievement ( Feldman & Matjasko, 2005

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Embodied Cultural Capital, Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, and Sports Performance in Girls Soccer

Pat Rubio Goldsmith and Richard Abel

in the arts and sports and dispositions, including body language that displays attitudes toward arts and sports. Embodied cultural capital also includes habitus. Habitus, which develops through childhood socialization in the family, is a set of dispositions and rules for acting that reproduce social

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The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports

James Tompsett and Chris Knoester

is among the largest and most prominent organizations to have stressed the importance of sustained training in developing elite skill in youth athletes, historically recommending long periods of deliberate practice over the course of childhood. However, there is now a substantial body of literature

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Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams

Rachel Allison and Stacey Pope

been in place since childhood. She knew there was a women’s national team but “couldn’t have picked players.” Diane’s fandom of women’s football began when Manchester United added a women’s team and she first watched a televised match. As she recounted, United scored with two or three minutes to go if

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“Futures—Past,” A Reflection of 40 Years of the Sociology of Sport Journal: An Introduction

Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Chen Chen, Tomika Ferguson, Courtney Szto, Anthony Jean Weems, and Natalie Welch

special issue has made Courtney return to her original childhood dream, which was always (and in many ways continues to be) the dream of being a professional athlete. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, during the late 1980s when girls’ hockey was not yet “a thing,” much of her life revolved around chasing a

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Anti-Black Misandry as an Emotional Reflection With Black American Male College Athletes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study

Donald D. McAulay Jr.

male bodies in sports (i.e., revenue-generating sports) provides the illusion of social acceptance. The aforementioned depiction represents how encounters with societally sanctioned authorities can be consequential from childhood through adulthood for many Black American males ( Brown et al., 2007

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A New Typology of Out-of-School Youth Sports in 21st Century America: The Contrasting Organizational Logics of “Sport-Focused” and “Sport-for-Development” Programming Under Neoliberal Conditions

Douglas Hartmann, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Edgar Jesus Campos, Amy August, Alex Manning, and Sarah Catherine Billups

glissandos in recent theoretical developments . Sociological Theory, 6 ( 2 ), 153 – 168 . 10.2307/202113 Lareau , A. ( 2011 ). Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life . University of California Press . Levermore , R. , & Beacom , A. ( 2009 ). Sport and development: Mapping the field

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Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions

Jayne Caudwell

themselves as being ‘other’ to female or feminine, particularly when describing their childhood experiences . . . . The majority defined themselves as ‘tomboys’ (p. 104). The authors argue that by identifying as tomboys, which is viewed as a form of masculinity, the players are supporting “the ‘naturalness