Formations and Transformations in Physical Capital of Professional Baseball Players

• Main Authors: Chuang, Pei-Chi, 莊珮琪
• Other Authors: Hsu, Yi-Hsiung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88344133026142356967

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 運動與休閒管理研究所 === 98 === This research was based on the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu, and aimed to analyze the connection of Formations and Transformations in Physical Capital of Professional Baseball Players. Through documentary analysis and semi-structured interview, this research focused on specific respondents who currently play professional baseball, and tried to explain how their social position and socialization process influenced their recourses, attitudes and strategies. To conclude this study, professional baseball players were dominated in the social world, and it is related with the historical, national and educational policies in Taiwan. Through practices, they developed a certain physical capitals which are adapted to the needs of the social fields that they inhabit. Although, the social world was not a friendly environment to these professional baseball players, it would be more likely to create their values in this multicultural and consumer society. Moreover, by articulating the symbolic capitals, social capitals, economic capitals, and cultural capitals, it would be able to achieve a high social mobility in their social world.