By Ronald J Berger
Hoop desires on Wheels is a life-history learn of wheelchair athletes linked to a preferable collegiate wheelchair basketball application. The ebook, which grapples with the intersection of biography and historical past in society, situates the examine in broader context with heritage at the background and sociology of incapacity and incapacity activities. It records the advance and evolution of the basketball application and tells the person lifestyles tales of the athletes, highlighting the formative interpersonal and institutional reports that prompted their agentive activities and that helped them be successful in wheelchair activities. It additionally examines divisions in the incapacity neighborhood that display either empowering and disempowering elements of aggressive wheelchair athletics, and it explores a number of the complexities and dilemmas of incapacity identification in modern society. The e-book is meant to be learn through a common viewers in addition to by way of scholars in collage classes on incapacity, activities, social difficulties, deviance, clinical sociology and anthropology, and introductory sociology. It will also be of curiosity to students within the sociology of incapacity, sociology of activities, and scientific humanities, in addition to life-history researchers and execs within the fields of actual schooling, healing sport, and rehabilitative counseling.
Read or Download Hoop Dreams on Wheels:: Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete (Contemporary Sociological Perspectives) PDF
Best nonfiction_4 books
Biomechanical Systems Technology: Muscular Skeletal Systems
Due to quick advancements in laptop expertise and computational innovations, advances in a large spectrum of applied sciences, coupled with cross-disciplinary goals among expertise and its software to human physique techniques, the sector of biomechanics keeps to adapt. Many parts of vital development comprise dynamics of musculoskeletal platforms, mechanics of tough and delicate tissues, mechanics of bone home improvement, mechanics of blood and ventilation, flow-prosthesis interfaces, mechanics of impression, dynamics of man-machine interplay, and extra.
Progress in Understanding of Polymer Crystallization
Within the context of polymer crystallization there are a number of nonetheless open and sometimes controversially debated questions. the current quantity addresses matters reminiscent of novel basic perspectives and ideas which aid to strengthen our knowing of polymer crystallisationnucleation phenomenalong residing soften buildings affecting crystallizationconfinement results on crystallizationcrystallization in flowing meltsfluid mobility regulations attributable to crystallitesthe function of mesophases within the crystal formationand offers new rules in a attached and available method.
The position of coach has advanced in recent times to incorporate inner advisor, studying adviser, facilitator of studying, e-learning dressmaker and office trainer, and consequently there's now a necessity for pro running shoes that allows you to establish their contribution to organizational functionality. Now in its fourth variation, every little thing You Ever had to learn about education highlights the most phases of deciding on, designing, and supplying studying and improvement courses.
- Eagle Over the Ice: U.S.in the Antarctic by Christopher C. Joyner (1997-01-31)
- Advances in Virus Research: Volume 71
- Railway Artillery: A Report on the Characteristics, Scope of Utility, Etc., of Railway Artillery. Vollume I
- Working in the 21st Century: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity and Education: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity ... in Work and Human Resources (Hardcover))
- The Human Resources Scorecard: Measuring the Return on Investment (Improving Human Performance)
Additional info for Hoop Dreams on Wheels:: Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete (Contemporary Sociological Perspectives)
Example text
Before turning to their stories, however, it is first important to set their experience in context by providing a brief account of the history and evolution of the UWW wheelchair-basketball program, which I constructed from the interviews with several of the participants. History and Evolution of the Program The UWW wheelchair-basketball program began with the efforts of John Truesdale, who arrived at the university in 1970 after working for a couple of years in the State of Wisconsin’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR).
I think we became better and more disciplined because of that. We didn’t always like it. But I don’t think we would have been as good or as sound in our understanding of the game if he hadn’t been. . We were young kids. We needed the discipline and he gave it to us. . There’s a mental toughness that comes out of being in a situation like that and surviving. Mike told me that universities like UWW and U of I have played an increasingly important role in the evolution of wheelchair basketball in the United States, modeling themselves after college-level varsity athletics.
By linking personal stories to collective narratives, this qualitative genre strives to recreate the “experiential integrity of human existence” (Goetting 1995: 7), to reveal the world of ordinary people’s “problematic lived experience” (Denzin 1989b: 7), and to show how society “speaks itself ” through the lives of individuals (Rosenwald and Ochberg 1992: 7). In this life-history study, I contacted the participants through a snowball sampling process that began with people I previously had known through my association with the university, beginning with Amy Bleile and Melvin Juette, whom I mentioned in Chapter 1, and John Truesdale, the founding director of DSS and the basketball team’s first coach.