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Handbook of sports studies

Title
Handbook of sports studies / edited by Jay Coakley and Eric Dunning.
Publication
Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE Publications, 2002, 2000.
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Additional Authors
  • Coakley, Jay J.
  • Dunning, Eric.
Description
xxxviii, 570 pages : illustrations, 2 maps; 25 cm
Subject
  • Sports sciences > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Sports > Sociological aspects > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Sports > Study and teaching > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Sports > Research
  • Sports > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Sciences du sport > Guides, manuels, etc
  • Sports > Aspect sociologique > Guides, manuels, etc
  • Sports > Étude et enseignement > Congrès
  • Sport
Note
  • First published in hardback, 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Major perspectives in the sociology of sport. Functionalism, sport and society / John W. Loy and Douglas Booth -- Marxist theories / Bero Rigauer -- Cultural studies and the sociology of sport / Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald -- Feminist theories for sport / Susan Birrell -- Interpretive approaches to the sociology of sport / Peter Donnelly -- Figurational sociology and its application to sport / Patrick Murphy, Ken Sheard and Ivan Waddington -- Posting up : French post-structuralism and the critical analysis of contemporary sporting culture / David L. Andrews. Cross-disciplinary differences and connections. The anthropology of sport / Kendall Blanchard -- Economics and sport / Marc Lavoie -- Human geography and the study of sport / John Bale -- Social history and sport / Nancy L. Struna -- The philosophy of sport : a historical and conceptual overview and a conjecture regarding its future / William J. Morgan -- Politics and sport / Barrie Houlihan -- Psychology and the study of sport / Diane L. Gill.
  • Key topics. The development of modern sports / Allen Guttmann -- Political economy and sport / George Sage -- Education and sport / C. Roger Rees and Andrew W. Miracle -- Sport and the media / Garry Whannel -- Theorizing sport, social class and status / John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson -- Gender and sport / Nancy Theberge -- Sport, racism and ethnicity / Grant Jarvie -- Sport and nationalism / Lincoln Allison -- Sport and globalization / Joseph Maguire -- Social control and sport / D. Stanley Eitzen -- Sport and violence / Kevin Young -- Sport and health : a sociological perspective / Ivan Waddington -- Sport and disability / Howard L. Nixon II -- Body studies in the sociology of sport / Cheryl L. Cole -- Doping in sport as deviant behavior and its social control / Günther Lüschen -- Sport and emotions / Mary Duquin -- Management, organizations and theory in the governance of sport / Ian Henry and Eleni Theodoraki -- Emerging [word struck through] arriving sport : alternatives to formal sports / Robert E. Rinehart.
  • Sport and society research around the globe. Africa / Denver J. Hendricks -- Australia and New Zealand / Chris Collins -- Eastern Europe / Gyöngi S. Földesi -- France / Jacques DeFrance -- Germany / Klaus Heinemann -- India / Ian McDonald -- Japan / Koichi Kiku -- Korea (and South East Asia) / Burn-Jang Lim -- Latin America / Joseph L. Arbena -- Nordic countries / Kari Fasting and Mari-Kristin Sisjord -- Portugal / Salomé Marivoet and Claudia Pineheiro -- Spain / Núria Puig.
ISBN
  • 080397552X
  • 9780803975521
  • 0761949496 (pbk.)
  • 9780761949497 (pbk.)
LCCN
2002104181
OCLC
  • ocn171221491
  • SCSB-5388642
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries