Buying in: Big-Time Women’’s College Basketball and the Future of College Sports

Buying In juxtaposes women’s college sports with the historical transformations that set the stage for contemporary big-time college sports. Miller draws on positive psychology to create a framework he calls ＂positive anthropology.＂ He uses this lens to highlight athlete exploitation, pay-for-play, and other issues that affect college sports teams.

Aaron L. Miller is a lecturer at the Departments of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and at St. Mary’s College of California, where he teaches courses in sociology, history, anthropology, and philosophy to undergraduate and graduate students. Miller is a board member of CSUEB’s Center for Sport and Social Justice (CSSJ), a member of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, as well as an organizational, leadership, and cultural consultant who has worked for several colleges, professional, and national sports organizations.