Sociology: sport and leisure

The US Women's National Soccer Team (USWNT) is among the best soccer teams in the world.

Sexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but which has only recently emerged as a public issue.

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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.

How does a sheet of plastic become a soccer ball?

Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports.

Sport and Violence takes a critical look at the culture of 'sports rage' and aggression in the sporting industry, covering ethical, historical and sociological causes and impacts.

How is sport marketing being transformed by new media and technology, by globalization and by the opening of new markets and sources of revenue?

It has long been accepted that the social and cultural meanings of the car far exceed the practical need for mobility.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of London's bid to host the games was its commitment to legacy where it was argued that 'the legacy would lead to the regeneration of an entire community for the direct benefit of everyone who lives there'.

This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.

San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years.

Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches attempts to make sense of the increasingly complex ways in which we define ourselves and others.

It is commonly imagined that in recent years the rampant growth of consumer credit has lured American consumers into a crippling state of indebtedness, a state that has upended old cultural values of Puritan thrift and stimulated a frenzy of consumption.

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies.

Overuse of the internet is often characterized as problematic, disruptive, or addictive, with stories frequently claiming that online use interferes with relationships, or that 'excessive' time in front of computer screens is unhealthy.

This book assesses the transformation of football fan culture from a gender perspective.

This book explores how people encounter the pasts of their homes, offering insights into the affective, emotional and embodied geographies of domestic heritage.

From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the latest battle in 2023, The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs.

Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life.

This book combines pieces of work on Europe and Latin America, the two continents where football arouses the most ardent passions among its spectators.

Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity?

The first full-length study of cycling activism through the lens of social movement theory, this book demonstrates that, despite tremendous differences, bike activism can be understood as a continuous and connected activity spanning a century and a half and across continents.

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies.

We are entering a new era of leisure.

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

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St.

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.

Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people.

​In diesem Buch rückt das „gute Leben“ im hohen Alter in den Fokus: So ist in den westlichen Industrienationen ein stetiger Anstieg der allgemeinen Lebenserwartung zu verzeichnen.

How do migrant youth negotiate their role in society through sport and leisure practices?

Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams.

This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise.

This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States.

This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport's emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city's leading team sport.

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

American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000.

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

New Zealand's wine came to the world's attention in the late 1980's with its production of some of the best quality sauvignon blancs.

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

This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities.

Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world.

Coaching is an increasingly important area of sports science courses, and this text provides accessible and up-to-date coverage of this key topic.

This book analyses the relationship between the Olympic Games, with its ethos of openness and collectivism, and the security concerns and surveillance technologies that are becoming increasingly prevalent in the organisation of public events.

In cities around the world, in parks and roadways, people are taking part in sporting charity challenges.