Sociology: sport and leisure

This book explores the key issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and reporting as applied to sports organizations, with particular attention to the Italian environment.

This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society.

This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport.

Drawing on primary research within voluntary sports clubs in the UK and secondary analysis of the wider international literature on social capital, this text focuses on the micro-processes of social capital development and how they play out in specific social settings.

Against the backdrop of the recent and renewed political and policy interest in the safety and security in European football contexts, this book examines the ways in which the regulation of insecurities in European football has been advanced by European institutions and organizations, and contested by football supporters, from the 1980s to the present day.

The racial makeup of sports in the United States serves as a classic example of racism in the 21st century.

Much of the existing literature seeks to make sense of tourism based on singular approaches such as visuality, identity, mobility, performance and globalised consumption.

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.

Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development.

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.

Examines the causes of football hooliganism as a world phenomenon, considering the links between player violence and crowd violence, and the role of the media.

The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance.

An ideal resource for teens and young adults interested in incorporating a yoga practice into their lives, this book answers readers' questions about the origins, benefits, and potential risks of yoga and offers practical advice for getting started.

This empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events.

Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field.

This book is the first comprehensive collection focusing on the hosting of sports mega-events within Asia and their impact on the politics, economics, and culture that shape, and are shaped by, the local idiosyncrasies of host cities and countries across this most culturally diverse continent.

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives.

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

The study of sport tourism is on the cusp of moving from a descriptive phase of research into an analytical phase.

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

In recent years, football has become an important field for institutional change and political steering in China.

Winner of the Leisure Studies Association's Outstanding Book Prize This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they negotiate contemporary expectations of fatherhood and fulfill their own expectations of what it means to be a 'good' father.

This book brings together essays analyzing the impact of sport and physical activity on psychophysical well-being and quality of life, through multidisciplinary and multi-country studies.

This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves.

This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings-before, during and after catastrophic events-through physical activity and sporting practices.

Match-fixing represents a greater potential threat to the integrity of sport than doping.

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.

Known for their visibility and tendency to generate controversy, first-person shooter (FPS) games are cultural icons and powder-kegs in American society.

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.

Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion.

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 Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents.

Deciding what user impacts are natural or unnatural has inspired much debate.

This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that's harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive.

This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House.

Soccer hero Carli Lloyd knows how to score goals when her team needs them the most.

Football is big business.

Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.

If anyone is qualified to talk about sport in Australia, it's David Hill.

The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture.

This international case study book provides 27 expertly curated case studies on the topic of events management, each with detailed implementation instructions for the instructor in order to maximise student participation and learning.

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life.

It is increasingly acknowledged that an analysis of emotions is necessary to fully understand the social world, and recent research on transport, travel and mobilities has begun to consider the gendered nature of public and personal life in relation to this sphere.

This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region.

In recent years, football has become an important field for institutional change and political steering in China.

This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an astonishing success.

This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport, leisure time physical activity, and health-promoting exercise.