Social sports stratification in flanders 1969-1999: Intergenerational Reproduction of Social Inequalities?

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 219-245

  Scheerder, Jeroen ^a   Vanreusel, Bart ^a   Taks, Marijke ^a,b   Renson, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

social change; social class; sports participation; stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998065462     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690202037002006     Document Type: Article

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