ISBN:
9781412921350
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (609 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sport and Society : A Student Introduction
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Fully updated and revised, the 〈b〉Second Edition 〈/b〉of Barrie Houlihan's ground-breaking 〈b〉Sport and Society 〈/b〉provides students and lecturers with a one-stop text that is comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, accessible, international, and engaging. This 〈b〉Second Edition 〈/b〉contains five brand new chapters covering key contemporary issues: young athletes and human rights, sport and the city, sport and violence, sport and health, and sport and Islam
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Contributors; Introduction; Part One - Perspectives on Sport; 1 Sport and Social Theory; 2 Politics, Power, Policy and Sport; 3 History and Sport; Part Two - Structuring Opportunities in Sport; 4 Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure; 5 The Human Rights of Young Athletes; 6 Women, Sport and Gender Inequity; 7 Sport and Health; 8 From Violence in Sport to Sports-Related Violence; 9 Sport and Disability; 10 The Politics of 'Race' and Sports Policy in the United Kingdom; 11 Physical Education and School Sport
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Physical Culture and the PolarisedAmerican MetropolisPart Three - The Impact of Commercialisation; 13 The Business of Sport; 14 Sport and the Media; 15 Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations; 16 Doping and Sport; 17 The Relationship Between Sport and Tourism; 18 The Olympic Games; 19 Sport and Recreation and the Environment; Part Four - International Comparison and Context; 20 Sport in North America; 21 Sport in Australia; 22 Sport, the Role of the European Union and the Decline of the Nation State?; 23 An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim World
Description / Table of Contents:
24 Sport and GlobalisationIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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