ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide a discussion of the results according to the themes of family, social class, social mobility and education/career development. In doing so, it will address the central research question within this thesis: ‘What are the motives of student-athletes for undertaking a soccer scholarship’? This chapter will also address how scholarship athletes reflected on the role that their socialising agents played in shaping their experiences and career orientation. Blumer (1969) suggests that such objects may be classified into physical, social and abstract objects. Within the context of this approach, the veracity of the American Dream to students can then be unpacked and categorised.
