Making Sense of Sports
eBook - ePub

Making Sense of Sports

  1. 586 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making Sense of Sports

About this book

Updated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the biggest and strongest yet.

Ellis Cashmore's unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of sports remains the only introduction to combine anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, psychology and sociology with cultural and media studies to produce a distinct unbroken vision of the origins, development and current state of sports. New chapters on exercise culture and the moral climate of sports support a thoroughly overhauled text that includes fresh material on Islam, sports commerce and corruption.

Now packed with teaching supplements, including access to a dedicated online resource headquarters with video podcasts of twenty-one chapter outlines from the author (http://tinyurl.com/373oyvr), online quizzes, and an additional twenty-first chapter on depression and mental health in sports and exercise, the new edition contains a cornucopia of thought boxes, as well as guides to further reading, capsule explanations and model essays. In short, Making Sense of Sports is an all-purpose introduction to the study of sports.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. ABBREVIATIONS
  4. CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  5. CHAPTER 2 Back to Nature
  6. CHAPTER 3 Built for Action
  7. CHAPTER 4 A Very Different Animal
  8. BURNING QUESTION #1 HOW OLD ARE SPORTS?
  9. CHAPTER 5 The Hunt for Reasons
  10. CHAPTER 6 In the Mind
  11. CHAPTER 7 The Pursuit of Perfection
  12. BURNING QUESTION #2 WHY DON’T MORE GAY ATHLETES COME OUT?
  13. CHAPTER 8 Control of the Body
  14. CHAPTER 9 Sports Emasculated
  15. CHAPTER 10 Behind on Points
  16. BURNING QUESTION #3 IS CHEATING FAIR?
  17. CHAPTER 11 Champs and Cheats
  18. CHAPTER 12 Not for the Fainthearted
  19. CHAPTER 13 Representing the Challenge
  20. BURNING QUESTION #4 WHY DO WE LIKE TO BET ON SPORTS?
  21. CHAPTER 14 A Match Made in Heaven
  22. CHAPTER 15 Planet Murdoch
  23. CHAPTER 16 The That Conquered the World
  24. BURNING QUESTION #5 IS BEING LEFT-HANDED AN ADVANTAGE IN SPORTS?
  25. CHAPTER 17 Buying into Celebrity Culture
  26. CHAPTER 18 Morals and Medals
  27. CHAPTER 19 Same Rules, Different Game
  28. CHAPTER 20 Things to Come
  29. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  30. NAME INDEX
  31. SUBJECT INDEX
  32. TITLE INDEX