Sociology: sport and leisure

Using a topics-based approach organized around provocative questions about the interaction of sports, culture and society, Sports in Society presents an accessible introduction to research and theory in the sociology of sport.

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important.

A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative.

Sports, and the fans that follow them, are everywhere.

Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field.

Join Lioness captain Leah Williamson as she shows girls that they can be a leader at any age, and that huge things can happen when they believe in themselves!

This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan.

This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education.

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx.

This handbook illustrates the utility of global sport as a lens through which to disentangle the interconnected political, economic, cultural, and social patterns that shape our lives.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment.

Key Themes in Youth Sport is a concise, easy to read guide to core concepts in the study of young people's relationship with sport, exercise and leisure.

This handbook provides a critical assessment of contemporary issues that define the contours of the Paralympic Movement generally and the Paralympic Games more specifically.

"e;A brilliant read - the ultimate guide to England's history-making Lionesses.

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African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa.

"e;A brilliant read - the ultimate guide to England's history-making Lionesses.

Schulanfang mit Hindernissen Endlich ist Yao so richtig in der neuen Fußballschule angekommen: Er hat Freunde gefunden, das Training macht ihm Spaß, und der Internatalltag lässt ihn sein Heimweh vergessen.

Endlich ein Mädchen-Team an der Fußball Academy!

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class.

The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies.

Dining out used to be considered exceptional.

Dining out used to be considered exceptional.

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class.

The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies.

This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field.

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams.

Texas is a diverse state.

If your child is a sport-loving little person, he/she would find this book of ball games highly appealing!

It didn't always look as though Raheem Sterling would make it as a world-class player.

Robert Lewandowski is one of the best strikers of his generation - but his journey to the top wasn't always easy.

This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport and physical culture by presenting "e;student friendly"e; engaging chapters that clearly articulate the significance and practice of qualitative and/or critical methods in plain and convincing language.

Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity.

The phrase ';martial arts studies' is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest.

Sport occupies a key position in the cultural profile of a nation.

Public awareness of and sensitivity to questions of pain, risk and injury in sport is more acute than ever before.

At a timewhen the public discussion of mental illness in society is reaching a highpoint, athletes and other sports insiders remain curiously silent about theirprivate battles with a range of mental illnesses.

Now a lethal striker for his boyhood club - and an international superstar - Marcus Rashford is living his dream.

Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them?

In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years.

This book employs a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) framework to examine cycling mobility, marking a new turn in ecolinguistic discourse analysis.

Sport has never been a man's world.

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events.

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti.

This book interrogates the process of court reporting on rape and other sexual crime cases involving Australian footballers.

Winner of the Leisure Studies Association's Outstanding Book Prize This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they negotiate contemporary expectations of fatherhood and fulfill their own expectations of what it means to be a 'good' father.

This book explores the understanding, description, and measurement of the physical, sensory, social, and emotional features of motorcycle and bicycle journey experiences in tourism.