Sport, Culture and Society: An IntroductionPsychology Press, 2006 - 414 pages This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an international perspective, Sport, Culture and Society provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport, and includes:
The book offers a full range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, and guides to further reading. Sport, Culture and Society represents both an important course resource for students of sport and also sets a new agenda for the social scientific study of sport. |
Contents
The broader context | 15 |
Sport theory and the problem of values | 17 |
Sport history and social change | 43 |
Sport politics and culture | 65 |
Sport globalisation and other communities | 87 |
Sport and globalisation | 91 |
Internationalism reconciliation and sport in the making of nations | 109 |
Sport media and television | 131 |
Sport and the environment | 237 |
Sport and religion | 253 |
Sport lifestyles and alternative cultures | 267 |
Sport identities and recognition | 283 |
Sport social division and change | 295 |
Sport and social divisions | 299 |
Sport community and social capital | 325 |
Sport and social change | 341 |
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