%0 Journal Article %T Sports Branches that Parent Having Different Professions and Educational Backgrounds Prefer Their Children to Take Up %A £¿smail TOPKAYA %A £¿akir SERBES %J Journal of Theory and Practice in Education %D 2005 %I ?anakkale Onsekiz Mart University %X In 2003-2004 teaching year the parents of 180 students in 6 primary schools in the city center of Ayd n were asked to report the sport branches they prefer their children to take up. Parents¡¯ professions and educational backgrounds were taken as independent variables and chi-square analysis was done to determine whether the independent variables had an effect on the parents¡¯ choice of sports branches for their children. As a result, it is found out that social characteristics such as having different professions and educational backgrounds cause a significant difference in parents¡¯ preferences of sports branches (p<.05). %K Social stratum %K branches of sport %K preference %K parent %U http://eku.comu.edu.tr/makaleler/4.pdf