Project Title: Jeune athlete mondain: Global Opportunities for Aspiring Local Youth Engaged in Sports
ID# i040094
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“Examples of research involving human subjects include:
- interviews,
- telephone or mail surveys,
- behavioral or educational testing,
- observation of individual or group behavior” (MSU, 2012)
My research will include (therefore allowing me “Expedited” IRB status):
- “Collection of data from voice, video, digital, or image recordings made for research purposes.
- Research on individual or group characteristics or behavior or research employing survey, interview, oral history, focus group, program evaluation, or quality assurance methodologies”
Occupational aspiration, which can differ between social classes, is an ongoing American social problem that needs constant study (Antonovsky & Lerner, 1959; Empey, 1956; Kao & Tienda, 1998, Sewell, Haller, & Straus, 1957). There are a variety of ways to analyze these differences, from a global perspective down to an individual level. To gain a better understanding of the occupational aspirations of American youth, I will examine aspiration differences at the local and global levels in sports. I will use prior literature to lay a foundation for further research.
I will use qualitative methods including interview, voice and image recording, and ethnographic observation. By combining previous research (the generalized occupational aspirations of youth) with proposed research (to discover the precise impressions of individual goals within a local statewide sample), I will be able to determine relationships of aspirations originating from self and other. The findings will be directly relevant to American class struggle, existing in sports, and generally applicable to further the study of occupational work life in America.
The hypothesis presented in the current research proposal is that the athletes will convey descriptions of aspirations that are similar to those descriptions professed by (i) those of closest proximity to them, like their family and peer group; and (ii) the mass media. One result of the current research proposal is a grounded theory that is appropriate for the study of a variety of social problems especially related to the “stuck class” (Florida, 2002). This grounded theory is called peripheralism.
