Sport and Social ExclusionThis book presents the first comprehensive review of factors leading to exclusion from participation in sport in the UK. Structured around key excluded groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, the disabled and rural communities, the book offers an important assessment of sports policy in contemporary Britain, as well as a unique case study of policies to combat social exclusion under New Labour. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Tables | 9 |
Constraints on and benefits of playing sport | 24 |
and economic benefits | 30 |
The core of exclusion | 34 |
totals | 53 |
Exclusion education and young peoples sport | 60 |
participants in Nottinghamshire | 91 |
Sport and disability | 141 |
Sport and youth delinquency | 159 |
Rural and urban perspectives on exclusion and sport | 194 |
Stronger citizenship and communal | 217 |
The Third Way and communal social capital in sports clubs | 230 |
Conclusions | 237 |
by social class | 247 |
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Gender sport and social exclusion | 97 |
Issues and inititatives | 105 |
Conclusion | 112 |
Social exclusion and sport in a multicultural society | 123 |
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