Social class and the emergent organised sporting habits of primary-aged children.

Autor/inn/en	Wheeler, Sharon; Green, Ken; Thurston, Miranda
Titel	Social class and the emergent organised sporting habits of primary-aged children. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Soziale Klasse und die vorkommenden regelmäßigen Teilnahmen am organisierten Sport von Kindern im Grundschulalter.
Quelle	In: European physical education review, 25 (2019) 1, S. 89-108Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-336X; 1741-2749
DOI	10.1177/1356336X17706092
Schlagwörter	Gewohnheit; Soziale Herkunft; Bildungspolitik; Schulpolitik; Kind; Schule; Grundschule; Schulkind; Bewegung (Motorische); Bewegungsaktivität; Sportphysiologie; Sportpädagogik; Sportunterricht; Physiologie; Grundschulalter; Gruppe (Soz)
Abstract	This paper reports on the patterns of participation in organised sports of youngsters coming towards the end of primary school, with a view to identifying emergent sporting habits in relation to social class gradients. The data for the study were generated via 90 semi-structured interviews with parents and children from 62 families. The data revealed differences in organised activity participation (both at and beyond school) between an 'under-class' and combined middle-class groups of children, as well as within-class gradients among the middle-class sub-groups. There were, for example, substantial differences between the under-class group and the combined middle-class group in terms of both the average number of bouts of organised sports participation and the repertoire or variety of sports engaged with. In effect, the mid- and upper-middle-class children were already sporting and cultural omnivores by the final years of primary schooling. We conclude that while the primary school organised sporting 'offer' may be neither a sufficient nor even a necessary contribution to the emerging sporting habits of mid- and upper-middle-class children, for under-class children it is likely to be necessary even though it may still prove, in the longer run, insufficient. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2019/4