Overview
- Examines the developmental experiences of university-based cricketers transitioning into (and away from) professional sport
- Uses a collegiate-sport context to analyse youth transition
- Focuses on an interactionist and post-modern perspective of identity-formation
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Front Matter
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This book provides a detailed ethnographic account of the lives and experiences of a group of male, university-based academy cricketers transitioning into (and away from) professional sport. Set in one of the six university centres of cricket excellence established by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2000 as a pathway into professional cricket, the study examines the nature of the university cricket experience in relation to a process of occupational identity-exploration and development. Through a series of empirical insights, the author illustrates the tension between aspiration and reality players encountered in deciding whether cricket, as an occupation and future identity-commitment, was right for them. In so doing, the book reveals the questions of identity generated by players’ interactions with their cricketing environment relating to their lives as student-cricketers and as young people.
University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, sport coaching, sport policy and leisure studies.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood
Book Subtitle: "Days in the Dirt"
Authors: Harry C. R. Bowles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76282-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76281-4Published: 19 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09451-5Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76282-1Published: 10 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Developmental Psychology