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Sociological aspects of modern sports / Helmut Digel.

Title
Sociological aspects of modern sports / Helmut Digel.
Author
Digel, Helmut.
Publication
Garsington : Meyer & Meyer Sport, c2013.

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Description
326 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Includes articles on social change and sports development including the problem of doping and the responsibility of science, talent identification and promotion, the Olympic uideal and reality, the athletes' village, the development of world athletics, and what makes athletics valuable.
Series Statement
Sport, culture & society ; v. 10
Uniform Title
Sport, culture & society ; v. 10.
Subject
  • Jeux olympiques
  • Sports > Sociological aspects
  • Sports > Social aspects
  • Sports > Management
  • Sports and globalization
  • Sports administration
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch.1. Social change and sports development. Perspectives of sport in a global world ; Sports and the media-development trends and problems with a lucrative relationship ; Guidelines for a reflexive modernization of the development cooperation in sport ; Sport and sexuality ; Toward a visionary sport policy -- Ch. II. High -performance sport-problems and limits. The problem of doping and the responsibility of science ; Do we need an anti-performance sport ; Talent identification and promotion ; A comparison of competitive sport systems ; Faster, higher, further-the future of elite sports ; The fundamentals to protect honest athletes -- Ch. III. On the Olympics. Olympic challenges ; Olympic idea and reality ; Spectators in Olympic sport ; The risk of the youth Olympic Games ; Why athletes villages will still be required in the future ; Atlanta and the lessons learned ; The Ping-Pong game of the hypocrites ; Olympic games and regional development -- Ch. IV. On athletics. On the development of world athletics ; Does athletics need innovations? ; Toward effective organizational structures in sports federations-from amateurism to professionalism ; Challenges to athletics ; What makes athletics valuable ; International athletics on the threshold of the 21st century.
ISBN
  • 1841263575 (m)
  • 9781841263571
OCLC
  • 855484263
  • SCSB-11955357
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library