Paradoxes of Youth and Sport FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
Author Biography: 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 Associate 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.
SYNOPSIS
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
At the same time that issues of race, gender, violence, and structural inequality permeate the world of sport, sport is offered up as an ameliorative tool for related problems. Originally developed for a 1997 National Conference on Youth, Sport, Violence, and the Media, 15 articles by academics from the fields of psychology, sociology, health, education, kinesiology, legal studies, and communications present theory- and data-based descriptions of social issues in sport, alongside recommendations for intervention strategies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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