Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Sport and Multiculturalism in the Global Context -- The Nature of Sport -- Multiculturalism around the World -- Young People's Participation in Sport across the Globe -- Issues of Sports Participation in Culturally Diverse Nations -- Investigating Young People's Sports Participation in Multicultural Adelaide -- Theorizing Cultural Identity and Sports Participation -- Establishing the Theoretical Perspective -- The Humanistic Sociological Approach -- The Humanistic Co-efficient -- Personal Identification with Cultural Groups -- The Interplay of Group and Personal Cultural Systems -- Ideological and Core Values in identifying Self and Others -- Cultural Meanings of Playing Sport -- Inclusion and Exclusion in Sporting Activities -- Social Values and their Cultural Meanings in Sport -- Factors Constraining Sports Participation -- The Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sport -- Conceptual Framework -- Personal Documents as Research Data -- The Method of Personal Documents -- Advantages and Limitations of Personal Data -- The Researcher's Role in Analysing Personal Documents -- Humanistic Analysis of Personal Documents -- Personal Statement Guidelines for Participating Young People -- The Research Participants -- Respondents' Sense of Cultural Identity -- Categorizing Cultural Identity in a Plural Society -- Identity Categories among those Playing Sport -- Monocultural Sense of Identity -- Mainstream Australian -- Aboriginal -- European -- Asian -- American -- Reasons for Not Feeling Australian -- Bicultural Sense of Identity -- European + Australian -- Australian + European -- Asian + Australian -- Australian + Asian -- Polycultural Sense of Identity -- Australian + European -- Australian + Asian -- Other Forms of Identity -- Overview -- Identity Categories among Those Not Playing Sports.

Monocultural Sense of Identity -- Australian -- Asian -- European -- Bicultural Sense of Identity -- Australian + European -- European + Australian -- European + Asian -- Polycultural Sense of Identity -- Other Forms of Identity -- Overview -- Inclusion of the Culturally Diverse? -- Reasons for Playing or Not Playing Sport -- Reasons for Playing as Cultural Meanings -- Sport as Enjoyment -- Sport for Fitness and Health -- Sport as Social Activity -- Sport as Personal Development -- Sport as Competition and Achievement -- Overview of Reasons as Cultural Meanings -- Constraining Factors as Reasons for Not Playing Sport -- Non-Predisposing Factors -- Non-Enabling Factors -- Non-Reinforcing and Non-Inclusive Factors -- Overview of Constraining Factors -- No Manifest Exclusion of the Culturally Diverse? -- Participation of the Culturally Diverse in Particular Sports -- Particular Sports Played -- Soccer and Australian Rules Football -- Soccer -- Australian Rules Football -- Tennis, Netball, Basketball and Volleyball -- Tennis -- Netball -- Basketball -- Volleyball -- Athletics, Swimming, Cricket and Indoor Soccer -- Athletics -- Swimming -- Cricket -- Indoor Soccer -- Sports with Less than Five Participants -- Inclusion and Exclusion of the Culturally Diverse? -- Cultural Identity in Inclusive and Exclusive Experiences of Sport -- Culturally Diverse Identities and Sports Participation -- Inclusion or Exclusion? -- Partial Inclusion, Partial Exclusion in Particular Sports -- Individual Choice and the Social Functions of Sport in a Diverse Society -- Conclusion: Implication for Inclusive Experience of Sport in Multicultural Context -- Appendix -- Personal Statement Document -- Concrete Data Questionnaire -- Cultural Data Questionnaire -- Section A - For those playing sports -- Section B - For those not playing sports -- Section C - For everyone.

References -- Index.