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The position of Australian community sporting organisations in the third sector: membership profiles, characteristics and attitudes

Brown, Kevin 2006, The position of Australian community sporting organisations in the third sector: membership profiles, characteristics and attitudes, Third sector review, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 17-39.

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Title The position of Australian community sporting organisations in the third sector: membership profiles, characteristics and attitudes
Author(s) Brown, Kevin
Journal name Third sector review
Volume number 12
Issue number 2
Start page 17
End page 39
Publisher Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Association
Place of publication Lindfield, N.S.W.
Publication date 2006
ISSN 1323-9163
Keyword(s) community sporting organisations
Australia
third-sector groupings
social capital
Summary Australian community sporting organisations have been relatively underresearched within the wider study of voluntary associations, yet their membership base is large and constitutes a sizable proportion of the population. This paper analyses data from the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) 2003 (Gibson et al. 2004), initially to describe characteristics ofmembers ofcommunity sporting organisations in Australia (n=948). It goes on to compare attitudinal dimensions between members of sporting and other major third-sector organisations. On the basis of these comparisons three groupings of associations are suggested: social change, individual/social progress and individual/social maintenance. Sporting organisations form part of the latter category, and the paper briefly discusses the likely nature of social capital production associated with each.
Language eng
Field of Research 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
ERA Research output type C Journal article
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004019

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of History, Heritage and Society
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