Sociology: sport and leisure

When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "e;a spectacular leap,"e; African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years.

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans.

The Sociology of Sport has grown since its inception in the late 1950s and has become robust, and diverse.

This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation.

At their basic level, sporting events are about numbers: wins and losses, percentages and points, shots and saves, clocks and countdowns.

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras.

Given China's investment in sport, success in international competitions and recent hosting of high-profile events, there is no doubt the country is a rising power in the realm of global sports.

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras.

After Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks expressed her opposition to the Iraq War and President Bush in a country music concert, she was told to "e;shut up and sing.

'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football.

As a teenager, Kylian Mbappe was one of the best footballers on the planet.

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives.

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O'Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism.

This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This volume draws upon social science and historical approaches to provide insights into the world of women's football and female fans.

This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions.

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This book deals broadly with tourism planning and development from the perspective of Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination which is fast becoming one of the most popular vacation spots in the European Union.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'.

This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents.

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women's sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed.

Der Band bereitet die systematisch und empirisch fundierten Ergebnisse der Sportjournalistik didaktisch auf: Wie die Arbeit der Sportjournalisten konkret aussieht, welche Rahmenbedingungen diese Arbeit prägen und wie Akteure und Rezipienten sportjournalistische Medientexte herstellen, distribuieren und rezipieren.

This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahce and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria.

 Sport has enjoyed steadily increasing prominence and economic importance since the Millennium.

This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness.

This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which 'adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them.

How does the simple act of running make us human?

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.

 This book provides a historical study of the beginnings of the UEFA, demonstrating how the formation of the organisation was linked to the decentralisation experienced by FIFA, the world governing body of football.

This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies.

This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses.

This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on 'special interest tourism' and 'niche tourism' as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo-tribes.

Ideas are ubiquitous.

Over the past two decades there has been a rapid transformation of masculinities in the West, largely facilitated by a decline in cultural homophobia.

This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective action in football fandom across Europe and the UK.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.

Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency.

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the 'football gatherings' that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century.

This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West.

This book explores how different constituencies influenced the development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and highlights the central role played by swimming professors.

Cultural Overtourism is a comparatively new term, and refers to historical sites, museums and places that are extremely crowded by tourists; hence, a type of tourism that has negative effects on both the cultural sites and the people who live there.

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.

The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association 's Communication and Sport Division.