The Upward Mobility Potential in U.S. Intercollegiate Athletics: A Critical Examination of NCAA Division I College Baseball Players’ Hometown Demographics
American meritocratic ideology positions sports as level playing fields in which individuals, regardless of their background, can ascend with the right combination of ability and effort. Yet few studies challenge the sport-meritocracy ideology by empirically examining the socioeconomic backgrounds o...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas Libraries
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Intercollegiate Sport |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/18502 |