ISBN:
9780203872697
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 586 p)
,
ill
Edition:
5. ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Making Sense of Sports
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Cashmore, Ellis, 1949 - Making sense of sports
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Popular culture Social aspects
;
Sports Social aspects
;
Sportsoziologie
;
Sportsoziologie
Abstract:
Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of sports that combines anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology with cultural and media studies. This book includes chapters on exercise culture and the moral climate of sports support
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Back to Nature; CHAPTER 3 Built for Action; CHAPTER 4 A Very Different Animal; BURNING QUESTION #1 HOW OLD ARE SPORTS?; CHAPTER 5 The Hunt for Reasons; CHAPTER 6 In the Mind; CHAPTER 7 The Pursuit of Perfection; BURNING QUESTION #2 WHY DON'T MORE GAY ATHLETES COME OUT?; CHAPTER 8 Control of the Body; CHAPTER 9 Sports Emasculated; CHAPTER 10 Behind on Points; BURNING QUESTION #3 IS CHEATING FAIR?; CHAPTER 11 Champs and Cheats; CHAPTER 12 Not for the Fainthearted
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 13 Representing the ChallengeBURNING QUESTION #4 WHY DO WE LIKE TO BET ON SPORTS?; CHAPTER 14 A Match Made in Heaven; CHAPTER 15 Planet Murdoch; CHAPTER 16 The That Conquered the World; BURNING QUESTION #5 IS BEING LEFT-HANDED AN ADVANTAGE IN SPORTS?; CHAPTER 17 Buying into Celebrity Culture; CHAPTER 18 Morals and Medals; CHAPTER 19 Same Rules, Different Game; CHAPTER 20 Things to Come; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; TITLE INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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