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.

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

The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.

The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.

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

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.

In The Sport Marriage, Steven M.

The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions.

A profound reminder that football is far more than a sport; its a canvas for building a fairer and more compassionate world Kelly Davies, former Wales international football playerTremendous .

Don't feel left out in the roar of the crowd.

What makes the ultimate Sunday League footballer?

The World Cup's kicked off!

Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.

Take a breath.

This book offers a distinctive introduction to understanding the position of sport in consumer society.

A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.

A fresh exploration of the representation of poverty and class in American literature and film, through the juxtaposition of films, writings and the unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller and Michel Foucault.

Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains 21 wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena.

Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities.

Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe

Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

Sport studies has become one of the largest and fastest growing international industries.

Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection.

Leisure activities account for much of our time - and money.

This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches.

Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure.

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

This collection showcases the language of "e;doing"e; sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies.

The Olympic Games are the world's most complex and challenging sport mega-event to organize.

The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of this heinous form of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors.

Abortion is a woman's health concern and a complex moral dilemma everywhere.

The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses.

Social Issues in Sport introduces students to a sociological study of sport and is the first book to draw mainly from British sources for its material.

The power to act is two-sided in that it refers to the parent's ability to initiate (having children or responding to their actions) and to the ability to suffer consequences (irreversibility and unpredictability).

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

Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes.

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics.

This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world.

This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.

Sport Psychology is an essential introduction to the field's key issues, suitable for psychology, sport science and sport studies students at all levels.

Are sports influenced by their social context?

From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre.

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 book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past.

This book tackles issues of globalization in the English Premier League and unpicks what this means to fan groups around the world, drawing upon a range of sociological theories to tell the story of the local and global repertoires of action emanating from the popular protests at Liverpool and Manchester United football clubs.

With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport.

This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture.

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture.

Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular.

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.