ISBN:
9781137341600
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Sports - Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A critical and insightful text that explores the meaning and purpose of sports in society through an interdisciplinary lens, bringing together sports studies, sociology, philosophy and more, and drawing on a wide range of international examples, in order to provoke readers to question assumptions about the value of sports and physical culture.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Aims of the book -- Overview of the book -- PART I POSITIONS -- 1 Who Invented Sports? -- Definitions: sports, history and sports in history -- The origins of modern sport -- Conclusion -- 2 The Development of Sport: Politics, Power and Myths -- Definitions: Whig history and myths -- The gentleman amateur -- The rise of the modern Olympics -- National myths, elitism and modern sports -- Conclusion -- 3 Sport, Freedom, Fairness -- Definitions: freedom, fairness and sport -- The meaning and purpose of modern sports -- Conclusion -- 4 Character and Community Building -- Definitions: doing sports, character and community -- Sport and character building, sport and personality -- Community, socialization and sports -- Conclusion -- 5 Embodiment and Gratification -- Definitions: embodiment and gratification -- Sports and the embodiment of disciplines -- Sports, physical culture and gratification -- Conclusion -- 6 Sport and Wellbeing -- Definitions: debates about wellbeing -- Sport, policies for physical activity and health, and wellbeing -- Conclusion -- PART II PROBLEMS -- 7 The Obesity Epidemic -- Definitions: fat, weight, mass, overweight, obese -- Obesity: what the papers say the doctors, scientists and sports scientists say, and what the research actually says -- Obesity as a policy issue: the social construction of obesity -- Conclusion -- 8 Performance Enhancement -- Definitions: the world of drugs and drugs in sports -- Drugs, performance and sports science -- Conclusion -- 9 Compulsory Physical Education (PE) -- Definitions: education and physical education -- Physical education, physical activity and physical culture -- Conclusion -- 10 The Limits of Sports Science -- Born athletes and definitions of epistemology and ontology.
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