ISBN:
9780415591409
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (297 p)
Series Statement:
CRESC
Series Statement:
Cresc Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Sport : A socio-cultural analysis
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and symptom of socio-cultural change.Fully integrating historical, sociological, political and cultural analysis, the book covers every key topic in the st
Description / Table of Contents:
UNDERSTANDING SPORTA socio-cultural analysis; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter1 Industrial society, social change and sports culture; Introduction; Social change and the cultural implications of change; The characteristics of pre-industrial and modern sports; Athleticism and its contribution to the growth of modern sports; 'Teaching the poor how to play': rational recreation and the struggle over sport; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 2Case studies in the growth of modern sports; Introduction
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Modern sport: the nature of contemporary sports culture and the social influences upon itConclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 3Debates, interpretations, theories; Introduction: the history and sociology of sport in creative tension?; Interpretations illustrated; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 4Social stratification and social division in sport; Introduction; Social class; Gender and sport participation; Race, ethnic identity and sport; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading
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Chapter5 The social construction of identity and cultural reproductionIntroduction; What is socialisation?; Gender socialisation; Sport and character building; Socialisation, identities and sport: an overview of research traditions; Socialisation through sport: an overview of the functionalist approach; Interactionist approaches to socialisation; The social construction of identity through sport; Sport, globalisation and habitus; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 6Sport and representation; Introduction; Media sport analysis; Narratives, stars and spectacle
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Ideology, discourse and the body: competitive individualismGender; Class; Race; National identities; Stars in postmodern culture; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 7Sporting bodies: disciplining and defining normality; Introduction; What is a body?; Mapping the field: sex, gender, feminisms; Different ways of theorising bodies; The Olympics and gender verification; What's normal? Technoscience and the promise of cyborgs; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 8Sport, the state and politics; Introduction; What makes sport political?
Description / Table of Contents:
Power, politics and the state: a conceptual clarificationThe politics of sport and sports policy; British sport policy: rhetoric and reality; Dimensions of state involvement/intervention in sport; Conclusion; Essay questions; Exercises; Further reading; Chapter 9Governance and sport; Introduction; Who makes the rules?; The governance of the Games; Paralympics: new sets of rules for the Games; Making the rules: key players; Re-making the rules; Breaking the rules; Crises of confidence at the Olympic Games; Room for improvement; Governing sport in the twenty-first century
Description / Table of Contents:
Changing the rules of the game
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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