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dc.contributor.authorTheoret, Matthew John Ross
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-30 19:30:59 (GMT)
dc.date.available2009-04-30 19:30:59 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2009-04-30T19:30:59Z
dc.date.submitted2009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/4368
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how a group of 17 male youth athletes, and their families, experience competitive hockey. Many of the youths seem to forge fantasy relationships with hockey celebrities, heroes, and stars -- e.g. Sidney Crosby -- emulating them with regard to the "best" attitudes, equipment, and styles of play to have or use. Their parents invest considerable amounts of money and time into their sons' participation in hockey, not because they necessarily share their sons' dreams of athletic stardom, but because they hope that it will help instill community-defined "positive" values into their sons--tools needed to become "successful" youths and, eventually, adults.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectanthropologyen
dc.subjectcelebrityen
dc.subjectcrosbyen
dc.subjectethnographyen
dc.subjectfamilyen
dc.subjectfanen
dc.subjectfantasy relationshipen
dc.subjectheroen
dc.subjecthockeyen
dc.subjectidolizationen
dc.subjectimaginary relationshipen
dc.subjectmagicalen
dc.subjectnational hockey leagueen
dc.subjectNHLen
dc.subjectparticipant observationen
dc.subjectsidney crosbyen
dc.subjectsocial anthropologyen
dc.subjectsocializationen
dc.subjectsporten
dc.subjectstaren
dc.subjectthe sidney effecten
dc.subjectyouthen
dc.subjectyouth sporten
dc.titleThe Sidney Effect: Competitive Youth Hockey and Fantasy Relationshipsen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalseen
dc.subject.programPublic Issues Anthropologyen
uws-etd.degree.departmentAnthropologyen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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