Beiträge / Contributions. Adolescents’ Preferences for Participation - Alternative Versus Conventional Sports. A Norwegian Case / Sportpräferenzen von Jugendlichen - alternativer und konventioneller Sport im Vergleich. Eine norwegische Studie

Abstract

Abstract Comparing preferences for sport participation between alternative and conventional sports, this article exhibits some differences across sport contexts, as well as across gender and class. However, the main finding is the major similarities of preferences and dominating social groups (boys that is) across the contexts. This indicates that a similar habitus is in play in the alternative context as in the conventional one, and that "real alternatives" are merely to occur inside established frames of sport provision.