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Author: Larry Fogel
Date: 2022-11-11T12:58:19.505000+00:00

Dear Editor,

We thank the British Journal of Sociology of Education and the reviewer for reading our articles. We have carefully read each of the comments and reference them throughout the article and its various parts. These comments helped us think again about our inventors and the analysis we proposed.

Below is our detailed reference to each of the comments.

+ In light of the reviewer's comment, we have narrowed down the extensive detail that we offered in relation to the research contributions of our articles to various research fields. We now describe, in the new version of our papers, our contribution to the study of the role perceptions of soccer coaches in elite informal spaces and the relation of role perceptions to the reproduction of class privileges. See page...

+ We completely agree with the reviewer's comment about the arbitrary construction of sports as class (or the connection of sports to violence) and the change of this construction over different times and spaces. The most prominent example of course, as a reviewer described, and as we have now emphasized more in our articles, is football. At the same time, this description also applies to other sports such as rugby. In light of this reviewer's comment, we have now addressed this explicitly in our article. See page..

+In light of the reviewer's comment, we have now emphasized in our articles that we conducted a thematic analysis of the interviews. As well as we have added references regarding the various readings we proposed for our findings and the method of extracting the themes.

+Following the reviewer's suggestion, we added a table describing the characteristics of the study interviewees. See page...

The table includes reference to gender, age, experience, profession..

+Following the reviewer's suggestion, we emphasized more in the findings chapter the support for our claims in the discussion chapter about the effects of the coaches' perceptions of the transmission of class position

See pages.... in this context.

We also agree in this context that with the reviewer that the classified reproductive effects of the coaches' perceptions are also related to the exclusion of boys from a low economic status and the structural relations between youth from a low socio-economic status and youth from a high socio-economic status (based mainly on geographic and social segregation). We offered a detailed reference to this on page... The reviewer suggested seeing it as symbolic violence in Bourdieu's terms. We agree to that. We added an explicit reference to this in our articles now see page..

At the same time, it is important for us to emphasize that we did not offer a detailed theoretical description of the complex concept of symbolic violence à la Bourdieu. A theoretical dwell on this concept may divert the article in other theoretical directions. We have no doubt that it is possible to offer a call to our inventors through the concept of symbolic violence. We proposed to do this in future research. See page..

The reviewer wondered about the gender characteristics of our research in light of the fact that the coaches and the boys, the soccer players, are men. It is important for us to note that the vast majority of professional soccer teams in Israel are made up of boys only, which is why we chose to include boys in our research. The number of girls who play competitive soccer in Israel is 550, compared to 24,657 boys and girls (Adva Center and Sports Director 2019).

The reviewer wondered about the importance of boys' gender to elite privilege and class reproduction. We have no doubt that this issue is fascinating and worthy of research. At the same time, in light of the fact that our speaker is not concerned with gender and elite identity, we preferred not to address this issue at length. We proposed to address this issue in future research. See page...in this context.

It is also important for us to note in this regard that in order not to confuse the reader, and in order to focus our articles on the perceptions of the role of soccer coaches in elite informal educational spaces, we omitted our reference to the description of the intimate male relationship between the coaches and the boys-soccer players. We omitted this reference in light of the doubts suggested by the reviewer.

+In light of our reference in the findings to the parents' expectations of the coaches, a reviewer suggested referring to the broad set of social relations in which the coaches work. We of course agree with this comment. In light of this, we addressed this comment in the discussion section as suggested by the reviewer

+In light of the reviewer's suggestion, we have added a new section: "Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research". See page...

We hope that you will find this version of our articles worthy of publication.

Extras

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Along with all the descriptions that have been proposed so far, it is important to emphasize the arbitrary social construction of the connection about spammy sports and classes, as well as the arbitrary construction of the connection between types of sports and specific characteristics (mainly violence and undervalued use of the material body). Football in Great Britain, as various researchers have already described, began as a sport for men of high socio-economic status. Throughout the 7th century, in light of changes in cultural and economic conditions (such as immigration), football began to be more associated with the working class (). The connection between socio-economic status and rugby (as well as the construction of the physical-physical characteristics attributed to rugby) has also been described, for example, as different in Great Britain and other European countries compared to the USA () (for a similar