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Backboards and Blackboards : College Athletes and Role Engulfment / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler, Patricia A., 1952- author.
- Adler, Peter, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Basketball.
- College athletes.
- Social psychology.
- Social role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1991]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-87873-7
- OCLC:
- 1100429500
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