| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 96 === Most parents in Taiwan usually decide to stop sport training for better academic achievement when their children as elementary school athletes have the chance to join junior high school athletic teams. Why did some parents support their daughters’ sport life? How did the point of view and the decision-making process form? By the interviews with parents and coaches as well as the observations of the researcher, this study is to investigate the under meaning of the decision-making process based on the theories of socialization into sport and cultural capital proposed by Bourdieu. The results showed that the parents still had negative points of view on the environment and the future development of the athletes in Taiwan. Therefore, sports became one of the ways to advance to a higher school. In addition, if the players’ parents had the experience of being athletes in school teams, they were advantageous to children’s sport socialization in the role of torchbearer and reinforcement. The attitudes of the parents toward junior high school female basketball teams were classified into the positively liberal type and the authoritarian type; meanwhile, the parents showed empathy and presented two decision-making types, “ Love What you Choose” and “ Choose What You Love.” As to the crisis of body image change and gender identity, parents would guide their daughters to avoid the conflict between the athletic role and the social role. As for the future development, the parents still insisted that academic achievement is important, and at least their children should get the bachelor degree. However, many factors, such as height and sport injury, would affect the parents’ expectations of being female basketball players. To sum up, the future of athletes should be related to not only skills and body factors but also academic achievement in order to enrich personal cultural capital and create a multiple career planning.
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