Distinction through sport consumption: Spectators of Soccer, basketball, ski-jumping

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Mehus, Ingar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cultural capital, Social class, Sport consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 29044443727     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690205060159     Document Type: Review

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