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Abstract
Although coaches are of extreme importance for how the many visions associated with sports are fulfilled, we know little about who coaches are and how they practise coaching. This paper responds to this challenge by answering two sets of questions empirically. First: Who are the coaches? Which athletes have which coaches? Second: How do coaches coach? How do we explain differences in coaching practices? Theoretically, the paper is based on a framework where the roles a coach might inhibit are inferred from the many visions and expectations surrounding modern sports. The results show, first, a heavily and doubly gendered distribution of coaches. Second, they indicate that relatively instructive and social coaching practices are common, but that they vary considerably by gender, age and competitive level. The paper is based on a random sample of members in Norwegian Sport Clubs.
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Ørnulf Seippel
Ørnulf Seippel is a Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Seippel has published on sport as part of voluntary sector, sport and social integration and sport and socical capital in books and journals (Voluntas, International Review for the Sociology of Sports, Sport in Society, Journal of Civil Society, Acta Sociologica, European Sociological Review) (contact: [email protected]).
