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'I guess it’s kind of elitist': The formation and mobilisation of cultural, social and physical capital in youth sport volunteering
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies, 20(4), 487-502. Routledge
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Policy and research portray sport volunteering as a means by which young people can develop skills and perform active citizenship. This paper draws on qualitative research with participants in a UK sport volunteering programme to critically examine young people’s volunteering journeys and how these are shaped by their formation and mobilisation of capital. The results show how programme structures and practices, such as selection criteria, privilege young people with higher levels of cultural and physical capital, and afford these youth additional opportunities to accumulate and mobilise cultural and social capital. The paper argues for a more critical understanding of youth sport volunteering; one that recognises that sport volunteering can reserve the practice of active citizenship for privileged youth.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
business.industry
05 social sciences
050301 education
General Social Sciences
Public relations
Cultural capital
Active citizenship
Physical capital
Capital (economics)
0502 economics and business
Sociology
Life-span and Life-course Studies
business
0503 education
human activities
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Privilege (social inequality)
Qualitative research
Social capital
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13676261
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a9253aace2535d6e553e9115088e1cd