2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 29: Sport and Integration 1

Jun 8, 2022, 1:30 PM

Description

Chair: Remco Hoekman
Room: C9A03, Building C Level 9

96. Dealing with diversity in sport: promoting social acceptance and tolerance.

Christoffer Klenk, Benjamin Rubeli, Petra Giess-Stüber

6/8/22, 1:30 PM

With society gets more heterogenous, negative attitudes towards children that are considered different resulting in discrimination and accompanying conflicts is everyday life for many children–and that applies for sport, too (Wagner et al., 2018). Thus, dealing with diversity and mutual social acceptance is crucial in sport education of children that this study aims to analyse. With these...

97. Integration of Unaccompanied Minor Refugees: Sport, Social Capital, and Identity.

Martin Nesse

6/8/22, 1:50 PM

It is a widespread political assumption that membership in local sports clubs can enhance migrants’ accumulation of social capital and promote social inclusion. In line with this assumption, Norwegian sports clubs have, since the late 1990s, been assigned a central role in promoting the integration of migrants into Norwegian society. When evaluating the integrative potential of sports clubs, a...

98. Representation Matters: Belonging and Board Diversity in Sport Federations

Tina Nobis, Katrin Albert, Ulrike Burrmann

6/8/22, 2:10 PM

Objectives: Throughout the past decades, various studies have empirically focused on social stratification patterns among volunteers in sport clubs. The social composition of boards in sport federations has received less, yet at least some attention. With reference to this state of research, our study (a) empirically analyses board diversity within the German Football Federation by (b)...

99. Implementation of sport-based integration programmes at the interface of programme planner and VSCs as programme implementers

Sarah Vögtli, Torsten Schlesinger, Henning Jarck, Peter Ehnold, Josef Fahlén, Cecilia Stenling, Bjarne Ibsen, Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Siegfried Nagel

6/8/22, 2:30 PM

With society gets more heterogenous, negative attitudes towards children that are considered different resulting in discrimination and accompanying conflicts is everyday life for many children–and that applies for sport, too (Wagner et al., 2018). Thus, dealing with diversity and mutual social acceptance is crucial in sport education of children that this study aims to analyse. With these...