ISBN:
9781137403759
,
1137403756
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 96 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Series Statement:
Palgrave pivot
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Yar, Majid Crime, deviance and doping
DDC:
306.4830922
Keywords:
Sports Social aspects
;
Athletes Biography
;
Sportler
;
Doping
;
Biografie
Abstract:
Preface 1. Introduction - Sports Celebrities, Doping and Narratives of Deviance 2. Framing Narratives of Doping and Disgrace 3. Beginnings 4. Initiation 5. Commitment 6. Exposure 7. Resolution
Abstract:
Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption, Today's sports stars are hailed as heroes and marketed as celebrities, but can also suffer disgrace in the face of scandals about doping. Such a fall from grace turns heroes and role-models into villains, and sees them labelled them as 'cheats', 'liars', dopers' and even 'criminals'. How do fallen stars respond to such stigma? Majid Yar suggests that these sports stars use autobiographical story-telling as a form of public performance, in an attempt to explain their transgressions and challenge the deviant labels that they have acquired. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, and centred upon Erving Goffman's account of self-presentation and identity, this fascinating study illuminates how five fallen stars, Lance Armstrong, Dwain Chambers, Tyler Hamilton, Marion Jones and Mark Millar, use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption
Abstract:
"A highly readable account of the spectacular falls-from-grace of some of the most acclaimed sporting heroes of our time. Weaving sports stars' own accounts with classic sociological theory, Majid Yar offers fascinating insight into the stages that athletes caught doping go through: from stigma and spoiled identities, through neutralisation of their offences, to redemption and transcendence. Scholars of identity, drugs offences and crime in sport will all admire this book and students will be inspired by it for their own research projects. This is how to apply criminological theory!" - Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781137403742, 2014
DOI:
10.1057/9781137403759
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