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March 2008

LSA Publication No. 100

Sport, Leisure, Culture and Social Capital:
Discourse and practice

ISBN 978 1 905369 11 9

eds. Mike Collins, Kirsten Holmes
and Alix Slater

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LSA No. 100 Contents

Editors' Introduction
Mike Collins, Kirsten Holmes and Alix Slater v

About the Contributors ix

Ambiguities in the Relationship Between Sport and Social Capital
Jonathan Long 1

"You say potahto, I say potayto": Bourdieu, Egregious Economic Metaphors and the Meaning and Use of Social (and Cultural) Capital in Leisure Research
Karl Spracklen 17

Social or Sporting Capital? Sports Development Programmes and their Contribution to the Social Capital of Communities
Barbara Bell 31

Youth Sport Volunteering: Developing Social Capital?
Steven Bradbury and Tess Kay 51

Acquiring Social Capital through Shared Deafness: Examining the Leisure Activities of Deaf Club Members
Martin Atherton 67

Social Capital and the Holiday Experience: An Exploratory Study of Norwegian Mid-life Single Women's Perceptions
of Solo Holidays and Holidays with Friends
Bente Heimtun 79

Social Capital and Voluntary Membership Associations: Heritage Supporter Groups in the United Kingdom
Kirsten Holmes and Alix Slater 101

Culture Matters? The Role of Art and Culture in the Development of Social Capital
Jenny Flinn and Gayle McPherson 119

Arts-led Regeneration and Community Cohesion: A Study of Folkestone, Kent
James Kennell 139

Leisure Studies and the Social Capital Discourse
Mike Collins 155

 

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