Sociology: sport and leisure

Sponsorship of sports, arts or events can be a powerful form of marketing communication for businesses and organizations.

Sponsorship of sports, arts or events can be a powerful form of marketing communication for businesses and organizations.

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country.

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country.

The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who dream of following - literally and figuratively - in their footsteps.

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place.

The research project is a major component of most higher education sport courses.

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

This is a comprehensive introduction for HE students to the provision, organisation, and governance of sport in the UK.

This is a highly accessible text that provides detailed coverage of the key concepts, ideas, principles and techniques of sport marketing.

This is a highly accessible text that provides detailed coverage of the key concepts, ideas, principles and techniques of sport marketing.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.

In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball.

In Fighting for Recognition, R.

The evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics-traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age, taking on new meanings at each juncture.

Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs.

The descriptions and examples of unethical behaviors in sport in this book will challenge readers to rethink how they view sport and question whether participating in sport builds character-especially at the youth and amateur levels.

In a game where players are expected to call their own penalties and scoring the least points leads to victory, decorum takes precedence over showmanship and philosophical questions become par for the course.

Over the past forty years, football has surpassed baseball as America's favorite game.

A sociologist and oral historian explores the interwoven histories of sports and civil rights activism in this extensively researched volume.

Now more than ever, questions of citizenship, migration, and political action dominate public debate.

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans.

That Americans take to sports with a spiritual fervor is no secret.

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

Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.

Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.

Gael Force provides a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well as profiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players.

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siecle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carriere, Salvador Dali, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Edvard Munch, Picasso, Yves Tanguy, Gino Severini and John Cage.

The De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies consolidates the cumulative contributions in theory and research on humor from 57 international scholars representing 21 different countries in the widest possible diversity of disciplines.

Nine-year-old Venus Macquire is ready to trade smiling for the camera for nailing a soccer ball into the net.

Think you know all there is to know about Pele?

What goal caused the most legendary celebration in soccer history?

When veggie-nibbling Grazers and meat-munching Biters take to the soccer field, it's a showdown of prehistoric proportions.

At the age of 21, Kylian Mbappehas already established himself as a legend.

An icon of English football, Harry Kane has been tearing up the Premier League for years.

The summer stretches ahead of you and you want to make the most of it but don't know where to begin.

A seasonal snapshot of things to do in England at any time of the year, come rain or shine (or more likely just rain!

From the makers of the UK's best football magazine!

From the makers of the UK's best football magazine!

Get ready to peek behind the scenes in this hilarious and not-so-secret diary from legendary Lioness Ella Toone.

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination.

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination.

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Pele, Brazil's all-time King of Football.

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Megan Rapinoe, the world recordbreaking soccer player and activist.

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Pele, Brazil's all-time King of Football.