Sport and Social Exclusion

by Collins; Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415259590
• ISBN10: 0415259592
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-02-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents the first comprehensive review of factors leading to exclusion from participation in sport in the UK. Structured around key excluded groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, the disabled and rural communities, the book offers an important assessment of sports policy in contemporary Britain, as well as a unique case study of policies to combat social exclusion under New Labour.

Table of Contents

List of figures	x
List of tables	xi
Foreword	xiii
Professor Allan Patmore
Preface	xvi
Glossary	xviii
Introduction	1	(4)
From absolute poverty to social exclusion	5	(19)
From absolute and relative poverty to social exclusion	5	(6)
Measuring poverty and social exclusion	11	(4)
The geography of exclusion	15	(2)
Sport and social class	17	(2)
Exclusion, sport and citizenship	19	(5)
Constraints on and benefits of playing sport	24	(10)
Constraints on playing sport	24	(3)
Benefits claimed for playing sport	27	(7)
Poverty: The core of exclusion	34	(26)
Introduction: Why we know so little about the economic gradient in sport and leisure	34	(1)
The context of anti-poverty policies and leisure	35	(3)
Sport and poverty, and prices	38	(5)
Local authority anti-poverty strategies and leisure cards	43	(7)
Case study 1: Leisure cards in Leicester and Oxford	50	(8)
Conclusion	58	(2)
Exclusion, education and young people's sport	60	(37)
Introduction: Children and poverty	60	(2)
The early years: Home, play and primary schooling	62	(4)
Developing sports interests: Secondary schools and clubs	66	(6)
Dropping out or sustaining interest? Sports clubs and out-of-school schemes	72	(8)
Developing commitments: Sports performance and excellence	80	(3)
Case study 2: Sport for secondary schoolchildren - Go for Gold and Champion Coaching in Nottinghamshire	83	(11)
Conclusions	94	(3)
Gender, sport and social exclusion	97	(16)
Tess kay
Introduction: Sport and the gendered experience of social exclusion	97	(1)
Women's experience of poverty and social exclusion	98	(3)
Women, sport and social exclusion	101	(4)
Sport, gender and social exclusion: Issues and inititatives	105	(5)
Feminising sports provision	110	(2)
Conclusion	112	(1)
Exclusion and older people in sport	113	(10)
Introduction: Age and social exclusion	113	(2)
Ageing, leisure and sport	115	(6)
Conclusions	121	(2)
Social exclusion and sport in a multicultural society	123	(18)
Introduction: From race to ethnicity	123	(4)
Multicultural participation in sport	127	(5)
Sport, ethnicity and exclusion	132	(3)
Interventions	135	(3)
Conclusions	138	(3)
Sport and disability	141	(18)
Introduction: Attitudes, policies and structures	141	(5)
Sport and disability, mental illness and learning difficulties	146	(5)
Case study 3: Disability and sport and leisure in Leicester	151	(6)
Conclusions	157	(2)
Sport and youth delinquency	159	(35)
Introduction: Youth and crime - the facts	159	(6)
Causes and triggers of youth delinquency, and forms of intervention	165	(4)
The growing interest in sport as an intervention in youth delinquency	169	(2)
Case study 4: Intervening to make a difference? Street Sport, Stoke, as a primary intervention and Hampshire Sports Counselling as a tertiary one	171	(21)
Conclusions	192	(2)
Rural and urban perspectives on exclusion and sport	194	(23)
Rural England: Idyll or exclusion?	194	(10)
Sport and exclusion in urban England	204	(13)
Policy implementation: Stronger citizenship and communal social capital through sport?	217	(21)
Implementing inclusion policies and programmes	217	(13)
The Third Way and communal social capital in sports clubs	230	(7)
Conclusions	237	(1)
Conclusions	238	(16)
Summary of findings	238	(6)
Equity, non-participation and exclusion	244	(4)
Evaluation and future lines of research	248	(2)
Endnote	250	(4)
References	254	(39)
Author Index	293	(8)
Subject Index	301