Sport and Social Capital

Contents: 1. Sport and social capital: An introduction / Matthew Nicholson and Russell Hoye Pt. I: Concepts and contexts 2. Avoiding the numbers game: social theory, policy and sports role in the art of relationship building / Tim Crabbe 3. Sport-in-development: development for and through sport? / Fred Coalter 4. Locating social capital in sport policy / Russell Hoye and Matthew Nicholson 5. Narrowing the gap through sport, education and social capital? / Grant Jarvie Pt. II: Clubs and community sport organisations 6. Community sport networks / Alison Doherty and Katie Misener 7. Voluntary sport clubs: the potential for the development of social capital / Chris Auld 8. Community sport/recreation members and social capital measures in Sweden and Australia / Kevin Brown 9. Volunteering in community sport organisations: implications for social capital / Graham Cuskelly Pt. III: Sport and social capital in action 10: Sport’s ambiguous relationship with social capital: the contribution of national governing bodies of sport /Jonathan Long 11. Public policies, social capital and voluntary sport by Ørnulf Seippel 12. Race equality and sport networks: Social capital links / Kevin Hylton 13. Stepping into community? The impact of youth sport volunteering on young people’s social capital / Steven Bradbury and Tess Kay 14. Soccer and social capital in Australia: social networks in transition / Daniel Lock, Tracy Taylor and Simon Darcy 15. Sport facilities as social capital / Mark S. Rosentraub and Akram Ijla