Sociology: sport and leisure

Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making.

Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender.

This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society.

This book outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years, and provides food for thought concerning what lies further ahead.

In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before.

This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods.

This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and "e;chore"e; activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.

This book takes the concept of "e;dark tourism"e;-journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity-in an innovative yet essential direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature, film and television, the Internet, and gaming.

This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sport and outdoor recreation disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in sports domains.

This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest.

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This book explores the lived experiences of boxers in a French banlieue, largely populated by people from working-class and immigrant backgrounds.

 This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity.

This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games.

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to leisure and recreation, and physical activity and its relationship to quality of life.

This book provides fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive.

This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa.

The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond.

This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the multidisciplinary field of research developed within Brazilian social sciences to study football as a major cultural and social phenomenon in the country.

This edited collection critically explores new and emerging models of female athleticism in an era characterised as postfeminist.

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time.

This edited volume considers the U.

This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting-Mannheim, Germany.

This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date.

This book brings together examples and cases from across the world to discuss how sport has and can further contribute to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda.

This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches.

The chapters in the Women's Football in Latin America two volumes will look at the social and historical means of the embodied representation of gender differences that has been deeply embedded in the history of Latin American women and football.

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznan, Poland.

This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports' "e;toy department"e; reputation as a field whose standards are often criticized as lacking in rigor and depth compared to other forms of journalism.

This book presents journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of a'footy' to the highest levels of Australian football and rugby league, conceptualized as a processof learning.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film.

This book is the first to explore and compare football governance, fandom culture and supporter engagement in Europe.

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course.

This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South.

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory.

This book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century.

This volume examines the rise of an emerging sport as a grassroots effort (or "e;new social movement"e;), arguing that the growth of non-normative sports movements occurs through two social processes: one driven primarily by product development, commercialization, and consumption, and another that relies upon public resources and grassroots efforts.

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye.

This book engages with the ongoing question of why many girls stop doing sport and physical activity in their teenage years.

This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and controversies that have arisen as a result.

This book provides a detailed ethnographic account of the lives and experiences of a group of male, university-based academy cricketers transitioning into (and away from) professional sport.

This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance.

This book explores the ways in which young women negotiate gendered and classed identities in nightlife venues.

This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing.

This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket.

In diesem Band befassen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren mit der Thematik „Körper in der Postmoderne“ aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher fachwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen.