Sociology: sport and leisure

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.

*Everymom Best Book for Early Reading*In this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Leo Messi,one of the worlds most skilled and celebrated soccer players.

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.

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Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans.

Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans.

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

We've come a long way since the classic book The Organization Man first introduced the "e;ideal"e; 2-person career--a full-time male breadwinner and a stay-at-home wife.

Families and Work: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century provides an innovative framework for understanding the interface between family care and employment.

It is often taken for granted that holiday resorts sell intangible commodities such as freedom, enjoyment, pleasure, and relaxation.

It is often taken for granted that holiday resorts sell intangible commodities such as freedom, enjoyment, pleasure, and relaxation.

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.

'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology, although it will also be useful for those studying political science, government, public policy, and economics.

'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

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

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai.

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai.

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage.

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage.

Sport is often thought of as simply "e;games,"e; but it can in fact be much more.

Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world?

Originally published in 1967, Time of One's Own asks the question: How do young Scots spend their free time nowadays?

Originally published in 1967, Time of One's Own asks the question: How do young Scots spend their free time nowadays?

Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research for students studying programmes related to sport and physical activity.

Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research for students studying programmes related to sport and physical activity.