Sport, Culture and Society - Grant Jarvie

Sport, Culture and Society

An Introduction

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Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-30647-8 (ISBN)
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Presents an introduction to the field of Sports Studies. Taking an international perspective, this title provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport. It offers range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, and key definitions.
This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an international perspective, Sport, Culture and Society provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport, and includes:




a clear and comprehensive structure
unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport
coverage of core topics and emerging areas
extensive original research and new case study material.


The book offers a full range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, and guides to further reading. Sport, Culture and Society represents both an important course resource for students of sport and also sets a new agenda for the social scientific study of sport.

Stirling University, UK

Introduction  Part 1: The Broader Context  1. Sport, Theory and the Problem of Values  2. Sport, History and Social Change  3. Sport, Politics and Culture  Part 2: Sport, Globalization and Other Communities  4. Sport and Globalization  5. Internationalism, Reconciliation and Sport in the Making of Nations  6. Sport, Media and Television  7. Sport, Law and Governance – is Sport above the Law?  8. Other Sporting Communities  Part 3: Sport, Identities and Alternative Lifestyles  9. Sport, Violence and Crime  10. Sport, Body and Society  11. Sport and the Environment  12. Sport and Religion  13. Sport, Lifestyles and Alternative Cultures  14. Sport, Identities and Recognition  Part 4: Sport, Social Division and Change  15. Sport and Social Divisions  16. Sport, Community and Social Capital  17. Sport and Social Change  18. Sport, Human Rights and Poverty.  Conclusion


 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.1.2006
Zusatzinfo 5 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 22 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 816 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-415-30647-7 / 0415306477
ISBN-13 978-0-415-30647-8 / 9780415306478
Zustand Neuware
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