Research Catalog

Title

Sport in contemporary society : an anthology / [compiled by] D. Stanley Eitzen.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eitzen, D. Stanley.

Description

xv, 426 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Sports > Social aspects > United States
• Sports > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt.1. Sport as a microcosm of society. Take me out to the crowd / Bill Stokes -- The structure of sport and society / D. Stanley Eitzen -- We don't like football, do we? / Mariah Burton Nelson -- Sport in society : an inspiration or an opiate? / Jay J. Coakley -- pt.2. Sport and socialization : organized sports. Play group versus organized competitive team : a comparison / Jay J. Coakley -- High school football and academics / H. G. Bissinger -- Sports and ideological contradictions / D. Stanley Eitzen -- Fraternal bonding in the locker room / Timothy Jon Curry -- pt.3. Sport and socialization : the mass media. Separating the men from the girls : the gendered language of televised sports / Michael A. Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, and Kerry Jensen -- Televised sport and the (anti)sociological imagination / Dan C. Hilliard --
• (cont.) pt.4. Sport and socialization : symbols. Old times not forgotten : a battle over symbols / Douglas Lederman -- Crimes against humanity / Ward Churchill -- The de-athleticization of women : the naming and gender marking of collegiate sport teams / D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn -- Pt.5. Problems of excess : sport and violence. Sport as a control for aggression / Richard Grey Sipes -- A typology of sports violence / Michael D. Smith -- Football and violence / Rick Telander -- pt.6. Sport and deviance. The dark side of competition / D. Stanley Eitzen -- Gambling on sport : policy issues / James H. Frey -- Performance-enhancing drugs in sport / John R. Fuller and Marc J. La Fountain -- Out of bounds : the truth about athletes and rape / Jill Neimark -- pt.7. Problems of excess : big-time college sport. Myths about college sports / Murray Sperber --
• (cont.) From idealism to pragmatic detachment : the academic performance of college athletes / Peter Adler and Patricia A. Adler-- Racism in college sports : prospects for the year 2000 / D. Stanley Eitzen -- pt.8. Problems of excess : sport and money. Public policy in the public interest : pro franchises and sports facilities that are really "yours" / George H. Sage -- Baseball's antitrust immunity should be repealed / Howard Metzenbaum -- The baseball strike : a view from the left / Michael Zielinski -- pt.9. Structured inequality : sport and race/ethnicity. Sporting dreams die on the "Rez" / Kevin Simpson -- Sport and immigrant, minority, and Anglo relations in Garden City (Kansas) High School / Mark A. Grey -- 1994 racial report card / Richard E. Lapchick and Jeffrey R. Benedict --
• (cont.) pt.10. Structured inequality : sport and gender. Psychosocial impacts of athletic participation on American women : facts and fables / Don Sabo -- Explaining male dominance and sex segregation in coaching / Annelies Knoppers -- The spoils of victory : who gets big money from the sponsors, and why / Susanna Levin -- The meaning of success : the athletic experience and the development of male identity / Michael A. Messner -- pt.11. Structured inequality : sport and sexuality. Changing the game : homophobia, sexism, and lesbians in sport / Pat Griffin -- Sport and masculinity : the estrangement of gay men / Brian Pronger -- Fun and games : the gay games 1994 / John Gallagher.

ISBN

0312119852 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94074757^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library