Sociology: sport and leisure

Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.

*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic.

In today's neoliberal times, thinking about fitness and health is dominated by the media's narratives of "e;fit bodies,"e; which are presented and circulated in society as "e;valued bodies.

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field Are ticket scalpers good for teams?

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports.

Young Arabs are too often reduced to the figures of the potential terrorist, the migrant or the exotic icon of the revolution.

A clear, simple introduction to soccer skills for players aged 7-10.

With the increasing popularity of K-pop and K-drama, South Korean culture has stepped into the spotlight with interest from the public and academia.

Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following.

This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of place event marketing in the Asia Pacific region.

Prepárate para atajar una de las preguntas más difíciles del fútbol: ¿quién es el portero de fútbol más grande de todos los tiempos?

Following the success of Simon Hughes Red Machine and Men in White Suits, books which depicted Liverpool FC s domination during the 1980s and its subsequent fall in the 1990s, Ring of Fire focuses on the 2000s and the primary characters who propelled Liverpool to the forefront of European football once again.

This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important new theoretical and empirical research.

Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an important role.

This innovative study examines the Olympic programme from a critical feminist perspective, to shed new light on the issues of gender and inclusion at the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Movement.

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel?

For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme 'time-crunch economy' that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives.

Photographs create visual narratives of experiences, places, peoples and objects that collectively and individually comprise the tourist gaze.

The cultural context in which children grow up has a powerful influence on the way they play.

First published in 1987.

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.

A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650.

A charming and inspiring book of 365 things to do in London.

This book explores the transformation of cultural and national identity of global sports fans in South Korea, which has undergone extensive cultural and economic globalization since the 1990s.

The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage.

The story of Canada's other game from its invention by a Canadian to its current struggle for popularity.

Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures.

In this tenth and celebratory volume in the Research in the Sociology of Sport series, ten recognized and influential sport scholars from around the world reflect on their respective academic journeys.

This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation.

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between sport and religion, or more broadly, sport and spirituality.

This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies and anthropology.

Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth, and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport.

This accessible book introduces students to the theories, concepts and skills required to promote an event successfully.

Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program.

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor.

This Palgrave Pivot forms the final part of Andreff's trilogy reviewing the economic aspects of criminal behaviour in sports.

Any study of sport is incomplete without consideration of its social function and structures, its economic impacts both locally and globally, and its political dimension - particularly when used by nations for competitive gain.

Fantasy sport has become big business.

Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England.

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 examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation.

Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated.

Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as films and television.

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Megan Rapinoe, the world recordbreaking soccer player and activist.

This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences.

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

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

We've come a long way since the classic book The Organization Man first introduced the "e;ideal"e; 2-person career--a full-time male breadwinner and a stay-at-home wife.

This book critically explores the history of gender verification in international sport, to show how culture, politics, and science come together to produce "e;femaleness"e; and, consequently, the female body as we know it.

Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups?