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“Youth Soccer in the American Middle-Upper Class: How parents use soccer to create good girls”

Jimenez, Kathryn E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321967361

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2011, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Sociology.
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, but despite this global fascination, here in the United States it has taken several decades for the sport to gain widespread acceptance. This study looks at the thoughts and attitudes of the parents of girl soccer players; specifically at the ways that parents use soccer as a form of cultural capital as well as to reproduce approved gender roles and class values in their daughters. The research site was an elite soccer club in a Midwestern city. I conducted 25 semi-structured interviews with mothers and fathers of girls’ soccer players followed by a brief background questionnaire. One of the benefits of this study is an addition to the literature on girls in youth sports and an extension of our understanding of why private club soccer is used in the United States. The results of this study support previous literature in showing that middle-upper class parents use soccer to produce beneficial traits and develop the class “appropriate” gendered bodies of their daughters.
Steven Carlton-Ford, PhD (Committee Chair)
Annulla Linders, PhD (Committee Member)
29 p.
Sociology
cultural capital; soccer; girl's sports; gender roles; youth sports; gender

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  • Jimenez, K. E. (2011). “Youth Soccer in the American Middle-Upper Class: How parents use soccer to create good girls” [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321967361

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jimenez, Kathryn. “Youth Soccer in the American Middle-Upper Class: How parents use soccer to create good girls”. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321967361.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jimenez, Kathryn. "“Youth Soccer in the American Middle-Upper Class: How parents use soccer to create good girls”." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321967361

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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