Abstracts » Sports and fitness

The social integrative meaning of sport: a critical and comparative analysis of policy and practice in the Netherlands

Article Abstract:

This article examines the social integration of ethnic minorities, the elderly, the physically disabled, and homosexuals into mainstream and private sport in the Netherlands. The authors argue that the diversity of participants in the Netherlands is just beginning to reflect the diversity of the general population, however, different types of sporting activities and sports clubs still tend to attract specific groups.

Gays, Aged, Elderly, Minorities, Physically disabled persons, Social integration

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Women's soccer in the United States and the Netherlands: differences and similarities in regimes of inequalities

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The several regimes of inequality that shape women's soccer using cross-cultural comparisons are explored. The story of women's soccer in the Netherlands is one of struggle for resources and acceptance among other things while in the United States that same struggle has resulted in visibility and the establishment of a professional women's soccer league.

United States, Management dynamics, Public affairs, Health aspects, Practice, Soccer players

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Meanings given to performance in Dutch sport organizations: gender and racial/ethnic subtexts

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This article examines coaches and managers of amateur sports clubs and the meanings they give to performance. The author argues that the lack of women and minorities in leadership roles is attributed to the white, male creation of performance norms which is based upon gender and racial subtexts.

Research, Demographic aspects, Athletes, Racism, Coaches (Athletics), Athletic coaches, Sexism

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