Sport, Culture and Society

Author:

By Grant Jarvie

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Hardback (Paperback)

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In print, usually dispatched within 3-4 days.

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£85.00

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Social Science, Politics, Sociology, Student Textbook

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Further Details

• Published: 31st Jan 2006
• ISBN: 0415306469
• Pages: 432
• Photos: 30
• Size: 246mm x 174mm

From the Publisher:

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.

Clearly structured in four parts, it includes:
. unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport
. includes core topics and emerging areas
. draws on extensive original research and new case study material

This resource offers a full range of textbook features to help guide students and lecturers including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, further reading.

Sport, Culture and Society represents a fundamental text for students of sport and sets a new agenda for the field as a whole.

Contents:
Part I The Broader Context
1. Sport, Theory and the Problem of Values 2. Sport, History and Social Change 3. Sport, Politics and Culture

Part II Sport, Globalisation and Other Communities
4. Sport and Globalisation 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 III 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 IV 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

From the Critics:

“Quite simply, this is a terrific book. Professor Jarvie has produced an outstanding text”

Joseph Maguire, University of Loughborough