Social integration in sports clubs: individual and organisational factors in a European context

Elmose-Østerlund, Karsten; Seippel, Ørnulf; Goig, Ramón Llopis; Roest, Jan Willem van der; Zwahlen, Jenny Adler; Nagel, Siegfried

doi:10.1080/16138171.2019.1652382

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“…With increasing duration and intensity of membership, members accumulate clubrelated consumer capital. Connections between interaction and membership duration, volunteering, frequency of activity or participation in competitive sport have been repeatedly demonstrated (Adler Zwahlen et al, 2019;Elmose-Østerlund et al, 2019;Nagel et al, 2020a;Østerlund and Seippel, 2013).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Empirical studies confirm the connection between VSC membership and the development of social networks and contacts for members in general (Becker and Häring, 2012;Elmose-Østerlund et al, 2019;Hoye et al, 2015) and for PMB (Janssens and Verweel, 2014;Kleindienst-Cachay et al, 2012;Makarova and Herzog, 2014). However, universal expectations concerning the social integration achieved by VSCs have been questioned.…”

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confidence: 96%

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Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis

Buser

Zwahlen²,

Schlesinger

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Sport clubs are considered an ideal setting for the social integration of people with a migration background. However, they can also be a place of social closure practices, where assimilative ideas and ethnic boundaries are present. Besides the individual characteristics of the members, adequate club organizational structures are relevant for preventing social closure and facilitating social integration. Thus, the role of organizational structures for social integration might differ between natives and people with a migration background. Based on data from 42 Swiss sport clubs and 780 sport club members, with and without a migration background, we analyzed individual (migration background and membership biography) and structural factors (situational, club goals, and club culture) using multilevel models and tested cross-level interactions between structural variables and migration background. The results reveal that membership biography (e.g. membership duration and volunteering) and migration background are relevant for social integration. The estimated cross-level effects reveal that, unlike for natives and second-generation people with a migration background, structural conditions are especially relevant for first-generation people with a migration background. For example, social integration increases with a higher proportion of people with a migration background in the club or a less assimilative club culture.

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Section: Individual Characteristics Of the Membersmentioning

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confidence: 96%

Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis

Buser

Zwahlen²,

Schlesinger

et al. 2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…A very influential concept of integration in Germany, which is also applied in (international) sport sociological research (Elmose-Østerlund et al, 2019;Kleindienst-Cachay et al, 2012), originated from the sociologist Esser (2009). In this model, four dimensions are used to describe integration in more detail: culturalisation, placement, interaction and identification.…”

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Students from refugee backgrounds in physical education: A survey of teachers’ perceptions

Bartsch

Wagner

Rulofs

2021

European Physical Education Review

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Sport and physical education are considered important platforms for introducing people from refugee backgrounds to their new environment. However, studies dealing with the specific role of physical education in this context are scarce, although it is often the first and sometimes only setting in which people from refugee backgrounds come into contact with sport in the host country. To this end, this study attempts to shed light on how teachers—considered key actors in the resettlement process—perceive students from refugee backgrounds and their integration in physical education. In this study, teachers’ perceptions are defined as individually constructed truths influenced by biographical circumstances (migration experiences), socio-demographic characteristics (gender) and the environment (school type). We used integration theories to operationalise teachers’ perceptions, from which we derived a three-dimensional structure: cultural, structural-positional and communicative-interactive dimensions. Drawing on this theoretical foundation, quantitative data from a questionnaire administered to 491 physical education teachers in Germany were analysed using exploratory factor analysis, t-tests and variance analysis. The factor analysis resulted in a three-factor solution. The mean value comparison of the factors on the descriptive level revealed that the communicative-interactive dimension had slightly higher values than the other two dimensions. Furthermore, there were significant differences in perceptions in terms of gender and school type. Based on our findings, we suggest that teachers should be made aware that their views on students are never neutral and are shaped by various factors, especially gender and school type.

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“…Furthermore, volunteering is also believed to have positive externalities both for the volunteers involved and for the wider society. On a group level, volunteers may experience high levels of social integration in their clubs because most sports clubs offer obliging sports communities (Elmose-Østerlund et al, 2019; Østerlund and Seippel, 2013; Seippel, 2005). On a societal level, volunteering is believed to promote social cohesion and social trust in the broader community (Janssens and Verweel, 2014; Putnam, 2000).…”

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Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs: A multilevel analysis in 10 European countries

Nagel

Seippel

Breuer³

et al. 2019

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Regular voluntary engagement is a basic resource for sports clubs that may also promote social cohesion and active citizenship. The satisfaction of volunteers is an imperative factor in this engagement, and the purpose of this article is to explore individual and organizational determinants of volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs. Theoretically, our study builds on the actor-theory concepts where volunteer satisfaction depends on subjective evaluations of expectations and experiences in a sports club (‘logic of situation’), so that positive evaluations lead to higher satisfaction and, hopefully, retention of volunteers. This research uses a sample of 8131 volunteers from 642 sports clubs in 10 European countries, and is the first analysis to combine determinants at the level of the club and the volunteer (multilevel). Results show that the most important determinants of satisfaction are the conditions of volunteering (recognition, support, leadership and material incentives) and the workload of volunteers. Surprisingly, club characteristics, size or having paid staff are not significant determinants of volunteer satisfaction. The results of this analysis can assist more effective volunteer management in sports clubs that are facing challenges of individualization and professionalization.

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Social integration in sports clubs: individual and organisational factors in a European context

Cited by 23 publications

References 39 publications

Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis

Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis

Students from refugee backgrounds in physical education: A survey of teachers’ perceptions

Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs: A multilevel analysis in 10 European countries

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