UID:
almafu_9959234303702883
Format:
1 online resource (289 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-87013-2
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1-872365-94-9
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1-134-87014-0
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0-203-02529-6
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1-280-33201-8
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0-203-15956-X
Content:
1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender.Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Sport Matters; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: sport as a field of sociological enquiry; 1. On problems of the emotions in sport and leisure; 2. Sport in the Western civilizing process; 3. Sport in space and time: trajectories of state formation and the early development of modern sport; 4. The development of soccer as a world game; 5. The dynamics of sports consumption; 6. Soccer hooliganism as a world social problem; 7. Sports crowd violence in North America; 8. Sport in the process of racial stratification: the case of the USA
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9. Sport, gender and civilization Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-09378-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-06413-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203025291
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