TY - BOOK ID - 78339258 TI - Child's Play AU - Cooky, Cheryl AU - Corsaro, William A AU - Drummond, Murray J N AU - Hartmann, Douglas AU - Hazelwood, Torrie F AU - Hazelwood, Torrie AU - Hussein, Fatimah AU - Kehler, Michael AU - LaVoi, Nicole M AU - McKeever, A James AU - Messner, Michael A AU - Meyer, Brandon AU - Musto, Michela AU - Nelson, Toben F AU - Oca, Jeffrey Montez de AU - Rauscher, Lauren AU - Sabo, Don AU - Scholes, Jeffrey AU - Thul, Chelsey AU - Travers, Ann AU - Veliz, Phil AU - Veliz, Philip AU - Manning, Alex AU - Thul, Chelsey M PY - 2016 SN - 0813571472 9780813571478 9780813572918 0813572916 9780813571461 0813571464 9780813571454 0813571456 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Sports for children KW - Sports for children. KW - Children KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Sports KW - Barn och idrott. KW - Psychology / developmental / adolescent. KW - Social science / children's studies. KW - Social science / ethnic studies / general. KW - Social science / gender studies. KW - Sports & recreation / general. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78339258 AB - Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well. The eleven original scholarly essays in this collection provide a probing look into how sports-in community athletic leagues, in schools, and even on television-play a major role in how young people view themselves, shape their identities, and imagine their place in society. Rather than focusing exclusively on self-proclaimed jocks, the book considers how the culture of sports affects a wide variety of children and young people, including those who opt out of athletics. Not only does Child's Play examine disparities across lines of race, class, and gender, it also offers detailed examinations of how various minority populations, from transgender youth to Muslim immigrant girls, have participated in youth sports. Taken together, these essays offer a wide range of approaches to understanding the sociology of youth sports, including data-driven analyses that examine national trends, as well as ethnographic research that gives a voice to individual kids. Child's Play thus presents a comprehensive and compelling analysis of how, for better and for worse, the culture of sports is integral to the development of young people-and with them, the future of our society. ER -