ISBN:
9780415718394
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (655 p)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Print version Sociological Perspectives on Sport : The Games Outside the Games
DDC:
306.4/83
Abstract:
〈P〉〈EM〉Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games〈/EM〉 seeks not only to inform students about the sports world but also to offer them analytical skills and the application of theoretical perspectives that deepen their awareness and understanding of social processes linking sports to the larger social world. With six original framing essays linking sport to a variety of topics, including race, class, gender, media, politics, deviance, and globalization, and 37 reprinted articles, this text/reader sets a new standard for excellence in teaching sports and society.〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; SECTION 1: SPORT AND SOCIOLOGY: MEANINGS AND DIMENSIONS; SECTION 2: BIASES AND BARRIERS IN SPORT: CLASS, RACE, GENDER, AND DISABILITY; 1 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste; 2 The Boys Who Beat the Street; 3 The Sports Taboo: Why Blacks Are Like Boys and Whites Are Like Girls; 4 The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement; 5 Sport and the Italian American Quest for Whiteness
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6 Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender7 Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization"; 8 The Sanctity of Sunday Football: Why Men Love Sports; 9 Being 'Good at Sport': Talent, Ability and Young Women's Sporting Participation; 10 An Iron Man: The Body and Some Contradictions of Hegemonic Masculinity; 11 Transformed Identity: From Disabled Person to Global Paralympian; SECTION 3: THE SOCIAL BONDS GENERATED BY SPORTS: FANDOM, COMMUNITY, AND MEDIA; 12 Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite
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13 Something about Baseball: Gentrification, "Race Sponsorship," and Competing Class Cultures in Neighborhood Boys' Baseball14 Rooting the Home Team: Why the Packers Won't Leave-and Why the Browns Did; 15 Football, Television, and the Supreme Court: How a Decision 20 Years Ago Brought Commercialization to the World of College Sports; 16 Money, Myth and the Big Match: The Political Economy of the Sports Media; 17 Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flâneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football; 18 The Football-Fan Community as a Determinant Stakeholder in Value Co-creation
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SECTION 4: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE POLITICS OF SPORTS: DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION19 Cuban Baseball: Ideology, Politics, and Market Forces; 20 Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy; 21 Sport, Masculinity, and Black Cultural Resistance; 22 Gay Games or Gay Olympics? Implications for Lesbian Inclusion; 23 Argentina's Left-Wingers; 24 Hoosier Whiteness and the Indiana Pacers: Racialized Strategic Change and the Politics of Organizational Sensemaking; 25 Where Are the Jocks for Justice?; SECTION 5: BREAKING THE NORMATIVE RULES: THE PROBLEMS OF DEVIANCE IN SPORTS
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26 Creating the Frankenstein Athlete: The Drug Culture in Sports27 Discourses of Deception: Cheating in Professional Running; 28 Male Athletes, Injuries, and Violence; 29 The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode: Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?; 30 Unnecessary Roughness?: School Sports, Peer Networks, and Male Adolescent Violence; 31 The Dark Side of Social Capital: An Ethnography of Sport Governance; 32 Women Athletes as Falsely Accused Deviants: Managing the Lesbian Stigma; SECTION 6: GLOBALIZATION AND SPORTS; 33 Theorizing Sport in the Global Process
Description / Table of Contents:
34 The Denationalization of Sport: De-ethnicization of the Nation and Identity De-territorialization
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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