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Title Statement Child's play : sport in kids' worlds
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Physical Description viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Summary, etc "Child's Play collects state-of-the-art research on sport in children's worlds, studies that illuminate scholarly questions in the burgeoning sociological and interdisciplinary fields of children and youth, bodies and health, and intersectional analyses of social inequality. At the heart of Child's Play is a critical scholarly engagement with the question of how, when, and under what conditions sport is good for kids. The chapters in the first half of the book illuminate with broad brush-strokes what we know about kids and youth sports, and they ask probing questions about the role of sport in schools, health policy, race and gender relations, and social mobility. Together, these chapters critically assess the ways in which organizations, corporations and the state target kids with sport-related policies and marketing schemes. The second half of the book consists of interview-based, participant-observation and ethnographic studies by scholars who have entered into children's worlds to explore how youth make meanings, shape identities and relationships in sport; how sport participation connects with other things kids do in their daily lives (including school, family life, peer groups, adult mentors, health and violence, etc.). Throughout the text, Child's Play is attentive to differences and inequalities among kids: how different sport opportunities and experiences shape gender for boys, girls, Muslim immigrant girls and transgender kids, and the ways that race/ethnicity and social class differently constrain and enable kids' access to and experiences with youth sport"-- Provided by publisher.
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ISBN 9780813571461 (hardback) 0813571464 (hardback) 9780813571454 (pbk.) 0813571456 (pbk.)
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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.
Introduction: Kids and Sport Playing Fields: The Social Landscape of Youth Sports Surveying Youth Sports in America: What We Know and What It Means for Public Policy Kids of Color in the American Sporting Landscape: Limited, Concentrated, and Controlled Girls and the Racialization of Female Bodies in Sport Contexts Sport and the Childhood Obesity Epidemic The Children Are Our Future: The NFL, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Production of "Avid Fans" Fields of Play: Kids Navigating Sport Worlds Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming The Voices of Boys on Sport, Health, and Physical Activity: The Beginning of Life Through a Gendered Lens "We Have a Right to the Gym": Physical Activity Experiences of East African Immigrant Girls Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Kids and the Binary Obstacles of Sport Participation in North America Examining Boys, Bodies, and PE Locker Room Spaces: "I Don't Ever Set Foot in That Locker Room" Park "Rats" to Park "Daddies": Community Heads Creating Future Mentors Afterword: Kids, Sport Research, and Sport Policy Notes on Contributors Index