Sociology: sport and leisure

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.

This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption.

This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness.

In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game.

This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner.

This is the latest book on leisure from one of the leading figures in the field of leisure studies.

This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.

Football Managers have to deal with a number of unique pressures, yet the challenges of the football manager are similar to those of managers in other sectors.

The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure.

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

This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept.

This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games.

The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change.

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.

A thrilling ethnography of big wave surfing in Hawaii that explores the sociology of fun.

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

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

The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States.

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Offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of food and drink in America with fascinating entries on everything from the smell of asparagus to the history of White Castle, and the origin of Bloody Marys to jambalaya, the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink provides a concise, authoritative, and exuberant look at this modern American obsession.

If you want to learn about masculinity, ask a man if he likes to dance.

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches.

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches.