Mechanisms of social capital creation and consumption in a youth baseball league |
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Authors: | Sean F Brown |
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Institution: | 1. Independent Researcher, Los Lunas, NM, USAsean.f.brown@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | AbstractIn this paper, I explore social capital creation within a youth baseball league in the American Southwest. Within, I first propose a parent typology that centres on the level of parental social and pragmatic involvement with their child’s team. Second, I examine that the specific facets of league structure facilitate relationship building among parents and volunteers within the league, including team creation, practices and games, all-star participation, volunteering, and player relationships, all of which play both a facilitating and constraining role in the types of relationships parents were prone to forming, and the social capital benefits that were likely to accrue within. |
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