2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 23: Youth Sport 1

8 Jun 2022, 11:00

Description

Chair: Tzu-Hsuan Chen
Room: VBN3, Building HZM Basement

76. The Forgotten Child – Abusive Behaviour Towards Young Referees in Swedish Sport Clubs

Inger Eliasson

08/06/2022, 11:00

Child protection has risen rapidly at the Swedish sport policy agenda. However, despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN, 1989) making progress, one group of children seem to have been forgotten by the safeguarding initiatives in sport as well as by sport researchers, namely young referees. The overall aim of this research project was to gain in-dept knowledge of...

77. Parents Navigating a Cost-Intensive Youth Sport: A Case Study of Cross-Country Skiing in Norway

Lars Espedalen, Kari Stefansen, Åse Strandbu

08/06/2022, 11:20

Expenses rise in youth sports, and the socio-economic gap in youth sport participation widens. However, few empirical studies illuminate why the costs of sports participation rise. We aim to fill this research gap by studying how parents navigate and contribute to cost-driving processes in youth sports – a topic that has yet to be systematically studied. The concept of involved parenting...

78. The Sportification of Subculture: The Changing Symbolic Meaning of Breakdancing

Arve Hjelseth, Mads Henrik Skauge Antonsen

08/06/2022, 11:40

Breakdance has gained increasing popularity throughout the Western world in recent decades. As subcultural movements involving physical culture and bodily practices among contemporary youth reach a certain threshold of prevalence, it is no surprise that the IOC strive for the inclusion of such acitivities at the Olympic agenda. Breakdance makes it Olympic debut at the Paris Games in 2024....

79. The institutionalisation of Parkour in Denmark. A national case of how institutional isomorphism works and affect lifestyle sport

Signe Højbjerre Larsen

08/06/2022, 12:00

Many lifestyle sports are undergoing a process of institutionalisation and sportification. A growing body of research in the institutionalisation of lifestyle sport is developing. This is especially the case for parkour where researchers have begun analyzing how parkour has been developed in different national contexts. By drawing on institutional theory and various empirical data collected...