Sport Sociology - Science topic

I am researching the effect of social media on social physique anxiety of young adults. What statistical test do I use when analysing data from the social physique anxiety scale? (Leary, 2013)

I am looking for some good literature on 'sports for development and peace' (SDP) or 'sport sociology'. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

I would like to establish a literature review on football as a matter of popular culture. When we talk about popular culture we see fashion, literature, music, cinema, sport, just to mention a few. I will be very happy to collect a maximum of books talking about football in popular culture. Thanks.

Australia’s Winning Edge: 2012-2022 is a high performance strategy compiled by the Australian Sports Commission, which is described as Australia’s “game plan for moving from world class to world best”. It details four key aims for elite sport in Australia across the period, with the majority relating to positions on major sporting events medal tallies:

      I.         Top Five at the Olympics and Paralympics

     II.         Top Fifteen at the Winter Olympics and Paralympics

   III.         Number one at the Commonwealth Games

   IV.         20+ World Champions annually

With the number of athletes participating on foreign teams ever-increasing, I am interested to learn more about the specific problems they face i.e., in sport, interpersonal communications, (inter)cultural etc.   

Principles Fair Play, are signs of alternatives selfishness athletes in sports, moral characteristics Fair Play are those forms of the sport that make the sport not the means of production and consumption of maximum physical capacity, and part cultural values and cultivation in the first place athlete as a harmonious personality.

Specificallly I am concerned that if there is any social capital indicator used in sports? Or if there is any indicator used in other areas that can be used in sports.

My husband is working on Olympic education programs, and he needs this questionnaire.

Thanks ....... 

A core concept in sociology, political science, organizational behaviour and business, social capital is relatively new in the context of sport governance. In exploring the boundaries of both sport and social capital in theory and practice, one can see sport as a form of positive (bridging) social capital that promotes social cohesion, trust, social ties, etc. Could it also be perceived as a social space that promotes dark or exclusonary social capital since sport politics do not always deliver the social benefits they proclaim due to commercialization, doping, gender discrimination or institutionalized gender personification, the leaky pipeline and the glass ceiling in SGBs and in competitive sports.

I need to make a survey in sport clubs like fitness, yoga, tennis, squash and swimming pools about participants' perception of their club's location. I'll make the research in a big (almost 1 mln) city.

Later on I would like to combine results with an agent based model (ABM) - get characteristics of participants and put in my ABM.

The best scenario would be to have a representative random sample, but it is impossible to get a full list of participants (sampling frame). There are only lists for fitness clubs and none for the others. Some of them come only occasionally.

Do you think it would be reasonable to randomly, proportionally choose sport clubs, regarding their type, later on randomly select hours of activities performed and make a survey with everyone who came at certain hour.

Would it give representative opinion for all participants? And could I then count a sampling error and confidence interval? How could I improve representativeness here?

I am also wondering how big my sample should be? Is 1000 questionaries enough? In fact I don't know how many participants are in those clubs. The only thing I could use here are quite new results of national survey - I can get characteristics of sport participants.

I would be grateful for any help.

Best regards,

Lukasz Kowalski