Sociology: sport and leisure

This volume, first published in 1975 with a new introduction by Ziona Strelitz, marked a pioneering contribution to family and leisure studies.

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine.

This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound.

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine.

This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound.

First published in 1989.

First published in 1989.

How is sport marketing being transformed by new media and technology, by globalization and by the opening of new markets and sources of revenue?

First published in 1989.

First published in 1989.

Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society.

How is sport marketing being transformed by new media and technology, by globalization and by the opening of new markets and sources of revenue?

Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society.

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between sport and religion, or more broadly, sport and spirituality.

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between sport and religion, or more broadly, sport and spirituality.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia.

Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies.

Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies.

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities.

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities.

First published in 1987.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

First published in 1987.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route.

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route.

What are the social, political and economic consequences of staging sport mega events such as the Olympics and the World Cup?

What are the social, political and economic consequences of staging sport mega events such as the Olympics and the World Cup?

The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year.

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

The cultural context in which children grow up has a powerful influence on the way they play.

The unification of Germany set in motion one of the most interesting and uncharted developments of our era: the transformation of a whole society.

This collection of essays highlights the controversies surrounding racism in sports and African American athletes, examining the racial discrimination that exists in one of the most public arenas in the 21st century.

This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion.

This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing.

Mega-events like the Olympics, the World Cup of soccer, the World Series of baseball, cycling's Tour de France, and the Super Bowl draw our attention to the deep cultural significance of sport and its role in fostering social bonds.

Despite some enormous differences in salary among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels.

Major League Baseball, alone among industries of its size in the United States, operates as an unregulated monopoly.

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool.

'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football.

The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance.

The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance.

The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black.