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Jay Coakley
Researcher at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Publications - 61
Citations - 5795
Jay Coakley is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Colorado Springs. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociology of sport & Athletes. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 60 publications receiving 5481 citations. Previous affiliations of Jay Coakley include University of Chichester & University of Colorado Boulder.
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Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies
TL;DR: The socology of sport has been studied extensively in the past and the present, see as discussed by the authors for a survey of some of the main areas of interest in sport in the social sciences.
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Positive Deviance among Athletes: The Implications of Overconformity to the Sport Ethic
Robert H. Hughes,Jay Coakley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors developed a working definition of positive deviance and used the definition in an analysis of behavior among athletes, arguing that much deviance among athletes involves excessive overconformity to the norms and values embodied in sport itself.
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Youth Sports: What Counts as “Positive Development?”
TL;DR: There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport's assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it as mentioned in this paper. But sport participation does not always contribute to the development of children.
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Burnout among Adolescent Athletes: A Personal Failure or Social Problem?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualized burnout as a social problem grounded in forms of social organization that constrain identity development during adolescence and prevent young athletes from having meaningful control over their lives.