Sociology: sport and leisure

This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport.

2006 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearThe literature on sport history is now well established, taking in a wide range of themes and covering every activity from aerobics to zorbing.

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to leisure and recreation, and physical activity and its relationship to quality of life.

Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness.

This inspirational book charts the history of the anti-racism movement in English football and beyond, shining a light on both the divisive and unifying power of the beautiful game.

Ulf hat zwei Probleme: seinen komischen Vornamen und seine Zwillingsschwester Kathi.

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.

This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be confronted; and, third, that contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest.

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 explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the 'ethical turn' in skateboarding today.

Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars.

Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgement of harm and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces.

The idea of a 'leisure society' was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely.

This is a core text for all those on Sport Management and Sports Studies courses.

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

This book examines the phenomenon of 'digital guru media' (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness.

Sport is a geographic phenomenon.

This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on 'special interest tourism' and 'niche tourism' as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo-tribes.

Was ist Spiritualität?

Soccer's best teams had superstar players, incredible goals, and epic victories.

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the 'football gatherings' that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes.

Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide, which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community.

This book explores the organisation and structure of sport in and beyond Europe.

Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities.

As the EU continues its integration process, the concepts of culture and transnational European belonging remain ambivalent, whether in the realm of socio-historical representation or mass politics.

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts.

This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting-Mannheim, Germany.

In sport, hazing and initiation rites and rituals are commonly justified by team leaders and proponents as upholding traditions, proving one's commitment to a team, and as a way of strengthening team bonds.

The benefits of being outdoors in a leisure context are widely acknowledged across a range of disciplinary perspectives (including tourism, therapeutics, education and recreation).

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

This textbook provides students with an essential introduction to the theoretical underpinnings and practicalities of managing the marketing of events.

Heritage is a prized cultural commodity in the marketing of tourism destinations.

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The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance.

Written by a former Olympic consultant, this book examines youth sports in America today, from institutions that dominate organized youth sports to high-profile controversies ranging from burnout and out-of-control parents to the health risks of youth football.

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

Soviet and Western sociologists come together in this book to present results of recent sociological surveys and to analyse important social issues against the background of the revelations of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Gems traces the experience of the Italian immigrant and illustrates the ways in which sports helped Italian-Americans adapt to a new culture, assert pride in an ethnic identity, and even achieve social advancement.

Originally published in 1978, this book was written in response to the growing need for resource material for Home Economics courses in which the sociological content was becoming increasingly important.

Markets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries.

Diese Arbeit widmet sich dem Thema der szenespezifischen Moden.

A really useful textbook to help undergraduate students construct arguments in their writing, and raise their writing abilities to a higher level.

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.

In the 1970s the subject of leisure was attracting interest among both social scientists and people concerned with developing recreation policies.

This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure, and social justice.

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.

Unraveling the stereotype that men's friendships are unemotional and shallow, this book provides the first detailed account of the bromance that exists among young men.