Titlebook: Emerging Sports as Social Movements; Disc Golf and the Ri Joshua Woods Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exc

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Introduction,defend my role as both a sociologist and an insider with deep personal ties to the sport. Finally, I introduce the book’s main research question: How do small sports become big ones? To briefly summarize my answer to this question, I outline each chapter’s key argument and empirical foundation.

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A Social Movement,ports as social movements. With this chapter, I attempt to fill this gap in the literature. In the late twentieth century, new types of collective action emerged, such as anti-nuclear energy protests, gay rights, alternative medicine, New Age, and ecology movements, which attracted the attention of

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A Modern Achievement Sport,competitively. They follow the PDGA’s official rules, keep score, and often play for tags, equipment, or money. To improve performance, they practice specialized skills, research new throwing techniques, watch professional events on YouTube, and invest in high-quality equipment. Supporting key aspec

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A Lifestyle, keeping score. Among other reasons, they participate because they enjoy the outdoors, the health benefits of playing or the social aspects of the game. Their participation is guided more by local customs than official rules. Like rock climbers, mountain bikers, hikers, and skateboarders, they exper

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Group Integration and Disruption in Disc Golf Social Media,orld was uploaded to groups on Facebook. This chapter and Chap. . examine the relationship between social media and the rise of disc golf and other emerging sports. Based on a qualitative analysis of 123 randomly selected disc golf Facebook groups, this chapter describes how social networking servic

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Social Media and the Growth of Disc Golf,is chapter argues that digital interactions have had a net positive effect on the disc golf movement. Using the fifty United States as units of analysis, I show that social media use is positively correlated with the volume of face-to-face disc golf activity. States with more disc golf courses, PDGA

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,Movement Commercialization and Disc Golf’s Closed Economy,at lacks these properties. Alone, however, these resources are not likely to transform a non-normative sport into a mainstream one. Building on resource mobilization theory (RMT), this chapter introduces additional resources, including legitimacy, human resources, and material resources, that are re

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The Framing of Disc Golf in News Media,ure, a pronounced identity, strong leadership, and long-term investors—depends on outside organizations and institutional players to convert these resources into increased legitimacy and new participants. Non-normative movements like disc golf face the added challenge of breaking through the public’

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