Sociology: sport and leisure

This book explores gaming culture, focusing on competent players and excessive use.

In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices.

Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race.

While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport.

This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance.

With contributors drawn from a broad range of disciplines, The Modern Period Room brings together a carefully selected collection of essays to consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstructions from a variety of different viewpoints.

This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING'A fascinating book about the psychology of elite sport Mind Games explores compelling territory.

This book analyses the negotiation of place, belonging and uncertainty enacted by a group of 60 men and women seeking asylum who gathered weekly in a community space in Bristol, UK, to share songs, memories, laughter, and precariousness with other established and new city-dwellers.

The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism; from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television, the cinema and the computer.

This book presents critical insights and contemporary perspectives for exploring current trends, concerns and prospects of events tourism.

The World Cup is an international competition that pits the best soccer teams from around the world against each other to determine the world champion.

Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope.

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline.

Sponsorship of sports, arts or events can be a powerful form of marketing communication for businesses and organizations.

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Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.

This edited volume draws upon work from a wide range of established and emerging international scholars to provide an interdisciplinary analysis of sport's complex relationship with masculinity.

This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women's football, challenging conventional discourses that centre male, masculine, and heterosexual identities and offering a new narrative that re-positions women's voices.

Alle sprechen von Transformation der Gesellschaften und Nachhaltigkeit – doch wie werden diese Themen empirisch in den Wissenschaften umgesetzt und auf welcher empirischen Basis stehen die theoretischen Erkenntnisse?

In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries.

AAA videogames often offer expansive experiences to the millions who engage with the medium, but they are vulnerable to disruption from neoliberal structures.

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

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism presents a collection of readings that represent an essential and authoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies.

In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball.

A nation's choice of leisure activities can tell you much about its national character, and Britain has seen a revolution in leisure since the war.

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the nation' has remained.

The general theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Lawis armed groups and the challenges arising from the participation of such groups incontemporary armed conflicts.

Right out of college, Abby Wambach shot to fame in the United States soccer scene.

This book is an accessible, practical, and systematic guide to stadium naming rights sponsorship within sport, designed to help practitioners and students gain a better understanding of how naming rights work and the benefits that sport and corporate organisations may get from this kind of arrangement.

Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants.

We live in a culture in which sports play an important role.

The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions.

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.

Schulsportforschung und Jugendsportforschung stehen noch häufig unverbunden nebeneinander.

The short lived Tulip Era breathed a new life into Ottoman social life and novel elements of art, architecture and new spaces of leisure and entertainment that both men and women could participate and enjoy emerged during the early 18th century.

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism is a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the fast-moving and multifaceted world of sports journalism.

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.

First published in 1971.

La Ion is happiest when he's on the soccer field with friends.

The degradation of modern sport--its commercialization, trivialization, widespread cheating, cult of athletic stars and celebrities, and manipulation by the media--has led to calls for its transformation.

This book details the psychological theory and research surrounding various aspects of coaching, with a specific focus on American football coaches' work with young people.

Ours is the age of celebrity.