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Backboards & Blackboards : College Athletes and Role Engulfment /

Describes and analyses the relationships of the players, coaches, supporters, news media, and other key personnel and depicts the problems, pressures and rewards of being a student athlete. Based on ten years of observations and interviews of teams from five universities in three different cities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Adler, Patricia A. (Autor), Adler, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1991]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue-Studying College Athletes
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Role Expectations
  • 3. The Athletic Role
  • 4. The Social Role
  • 5. The Academic Role
  • 6. The Gloried Self
  • 7. Resolving Role Conflict
  • 8. Terminating the Role
  • 9. The Engulfed Self
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index