Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peterson, Tomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schenker, Katarina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Social service.; Social groups.; Family.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Social Work and Community Development.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in Eu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sweden - The Societal Setting
• 3. Social Entrepreneurship in an International Contex
• 4. A Definition of Sport and Social Entrepreneurship
• 5. The Cases
• 6. Social Entrepreneurship, Sport and Democracy Development
• 7. Ethics in Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship
• 8. A Methodological Tool for Researching Sport and Social Entrepreneurship.