Grassroots football volunteering in a de-industrialised locale as a source of social capital

Abstract

De-industrialisation and its impact on local populations, while a long-standing theme of sociological research, is notoriously difficulty to make concrete and bring into focus as its reality seems more of an ‘absence’ than a presence; refers to a social condition heavily characterised by the on-going impact of a set of social conditions that have gone; a former set of defining conditions that have not been replaced; is akin to describing a reality in people’s lives that is ‘missed.’ The question of the presence of the past in the present is explored through interviews with locals in Dalkeith.