Handbook of Sports Studies
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Handbook of Sports Studies

  1. 570 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Sports Studies

About this book

Now available in paperback, this vital handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and Jay Coakley, author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status.

Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies.

With an international and inter-disciplinary team of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Preface
  5. General Introduction
  6. Part One: Major Perspectives in the Sociology of Sport
  7. 1 - Functionalism, Sport and Society
  8. 2 - Marxist Theories
  9. 3 - Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Sport
  10. 4 - Feminist Theories for Sport
  11. 5 - Interpretive Approcahes to the Sociology of Sport
  12. 6 - Figurational Sociology and its Application to Sport
  13. 7 - Posting Up: French Post-Structuralism and the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Sporting Culture
  14. Part Two: Cross-Disciplinary Differences and Connections
  15. 8 - The Anthropology of Sport
  16. 9 - Economics and Sport
  17. 10 - Human Geography and the Study of Sport
  18. 11 - Social History and Sport
  19. 12 - The Philosopy of Sport: A Historical and Conceptual Overview and a Conjecture Regarding its Future
  20. 13 - Politics and Sport
  21. 14 - Psychology and the Study of Sport
  22. part-3
  23. Part Three: Key Topics
  24. ch15
  25. 15 - The Development of Modern Sports
  26. 16 - Political Economy and Sport
  27. 17 - Education and Sports
  28. 18 - Sport and the Media
  29. 19 - Theorizing Sport, Social Class and Status
  30. 20 - Gender and Sport
  31. 21 - Sport, Racism and Ethnicity
  32. 22 - Sport and Nationalism
  33. 23 - Sport and Globalization
  34. 24 - Social Control and Sport
  35. 25 - Sport and Violence
  36. 26 - Sport and Health: A Sociological Perspective
  37. 27 - Sport and Disability
  38. 28 - Body Studies in the Sociology of Sport: A Review of the Field
  39. 29 - Doping in Sport as Deviant Behavior and its Social Control
  40. 30 - Sport and Emotions
  41. 31 - Management, Organizations and Thoery in the Governance of Sport
  42. 32 - xEmergingx Arriving Sport: Alternatives to Formal Sports
  43. Part Four: Sport and Society Research around the Globe
  44. 33 - Africa
  45. 34 - Australia and New Zealand
  46. 35 - Eastern Europe
  47. 36 - France
  48. 37 - Germany
  49. 38 - India
  50. 39 - Japan
  51. 40 - Korea (and South East Asia)
  52. 41 - Latin America
  53. 42 - Nordic Countries
  54. 43 - Portugal
  55. 44 - Spain
  56. Index