Embodied Cultural Capital, Social Class, Race and Ethnicity, and Sports Performance in Girls Soccer
Pat Rubio Goldsmith,
Richard Abel
Abstract:Compared with working-class parents, middle-class parents increasingly promote sports performance for their children as part of a larger strategy of ensuring that their children are upwardly mobile and likely to attend and graduate from college. However, we need to learn more about the distribution of youth sports performance in specific sports and whether it relates to social class. In this study, we test for a relationship between social class and performance in girls soccer by examining the success of high … Show more
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