Sport and Society History, Power and Culture
| Author/creator | Scambler, Graham Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Open University Press [Imprint] Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Education Blacklick : McGraw-Hill Companies, The [Distributor] |
| Description | 224 p. ill 09.000 x 05.900 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It starts by tracing the key ‘moments’ in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport, giving detailed accounts of the athletic competition in the ancient games at Olympia; the genesis of modern track-and-field athletics in nineteenth-century England; and the reconstruction by de Coubertin and unfolding of the Olympic movement through the twentieth century.<p>The second section analyses features of sport in detail:</p><ul><li>The links between exercise, sport and health, including a look at growing rates of obesity and of the role of drug use in society and sport</li><li>The hyper-commodification of football in the 1990s</li><li>Representations of sport in the media</li><li>Sports iconography, with sociological portraits of Muhammad Ali and David Beckham</li><li>The re-emergence of violence in sport</li></ul>The third section critically analyses the various theoretical approaches adopted by sociologists, and presents a distinctive new theoretical framework for understanding the changing role of sport in society in the era of global disorganized capitalism.<p>This is key reading for students and researchers in sociology of sport and leisure, sport science and health.</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780335210701 |
| ISBN | 0335210708 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780335210701 |
| Stock number | 0335210708 00992953 |
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