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Publication Date: 2009-Jun
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Complicating the "Soccer Mom:" The Cultural Politics of Forming Class-Based Identity, Distinction, and Necessity
Swanson, Lisa
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, v80 n2 p345-354 Jun 2009
Using Pierre Bourdieu's theories of social class differentiation and class reproduction, this paper provides an analysis of class-based identity politics in contemporary suburban America. Through a critical ethnography of the emergent, American, upper-middle-class "soccer mom" phenomenon, this study contributes to a growing body of research that interrogates class-based, cultural practices of status differentiation. As part of a larger, longitudinal ethnographic study, this paper specifically focuses on the ways in which women, who are driven by upper-middle-class habitus, contest and construct their identity as mothers of young, soccer-playing children. (Contains 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Social Class, Team Sports, Ethnography, Mothers, Longitudinal Studies, Identification, Suburbs, Social Theories, Habit Formation, Behavior, Mother Attitudes, Middle Class
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