Social Capital and Sport Organisations

<p>Drawing on primary research within voluntary sports clubs in the UK and secondary analysis of the wider international literature on social capital this text focuses on the micro-processes of social capital development and how they play out in specific social settings. In so doing it adds to existing research by developing a rich contextualised process-based view of social capital in action.</p><p>Critically reviewing theoretical and empirical literature on social capital the book highlights the key current debates. The empirical core of the book draws on ethnographic observation over 18 months at voluntary sports clubs in the UK including in-depth interviews with sports club members and organisers. The text explicitly seeks to set this empirical work in its wider context by considering the findings in relation to other international studies of social capital in both sports clubs and other types of organisation. The book draws on international research from a whole range of countries: UK USA Australia Canada Norway Denmark Netherlands Japan Vanuatu Czech Republic Germany and many others. The book establishes a transferable process-based understanding of how social capital develops – both within sports clubs and beyond.</p><p>This is an illuminating reading for policymakers practitioners and researchers with an interest in the sociology of sport sport development sport management sport policy social theory social policy or social networks.</p>