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Sport has been attributed to helping form stronger societal bonds and boosting self-esteem for the younger generation. Image: Nielsen US Promoting Racial Equality in Sports Study, July 2020, N = 1,000. Sports can also play an important role in addressing and raising awareness of key societal issues. This has been a year of reckoning for social ...
Specifically, Carron and colleagues examined whether the cohesion-performance relationship differed with respect to type of cohesion (task vs. social cohesion), type of sport (interdependent vs. individual sports), gender (male vs. female), skill level and age, and the direction of the relationship using any lagged longitudinal datasets that were available (cohesion leading to performance vs ...
In this paper, we explore how social cohesion is defined in the context of a SFD initiative, the complexities of defining social cohesion, and how this shapes management practices. Adopting an ethnographic approach over two years, we collected data via research observations, reflexive journal entries, organisational documents, and semi-structured interviews.
- Katherine Raw, Emma Sherry, Katie Rowe
- 2021
The review followed six steps, namely: (1) identifying the research questions; (2) identifying relevant studies; (3) study selection; (4) charting the data; (5) collating, summarizing and reporting the results. A sixth step, consultation with fellow academics and sport for social cohesion practitioners, was also implemented to add rigour and ...
Oct 23, 2023 · Sport, physical activity and social cohesion are increasingly linked within the academic literature. Indeed, studies recognise both the importance of social cohesion for promoting physical activity and the potential of sport to support social cohesion. Up until now, however, the ways in which social cohesion has been defined and measured in the context of sport and physical activity have not ...
Feb 1, 2015 · One of the key dimensions of building community capacity is the concept of social cohesion or social capital (Wendel et al., 2009). It is, according to Goodman et al. (1998), the foundation of a sense of community. Putnam's (2000) perspective of social capital has dominated research and public policy related to sport.
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Jun 22, 2017 · The purpose of this article is to reflect on the challenges associated with co-producing a participatory community sport initiative with 28 young people, the aim of which was to work towards greater social cohesion in an ethnically segregated borough in north-west England.
