Backboards & Blackboards : : College Athletes and Role Engulfment / / Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler.

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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1991]
©1991
Year of Publication:1991
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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