Research Catalog

Title

Sport in contemporary society : an anthology / edited by D. Stanley Eitzen.

Publication

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eitzen, D. Stanley.

Description

xiv, 349 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Sports buffs know all about famous players and coaches and can recite statistics in endless detail. But do fans know how sport is linked to other institutions of society? Do they understand the role of sport in socializing youngsters in both positive and negative ways? What about the ways in which sport perpetuates race and gender-role stereotypes in society? How do owners, coaches, and other sport authorities exercise power to maintain control over athletes?

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Sports -- an offer we can't refuse / Dave Zirin -- American sport in the New Millennium / D. Stanley Eitzen -- The great recession and sport / D. Stanley Eitzen -- Play group versus organized competitive team: a comparison / Jay J. Coakley -- Anyone up for stickball? In a PlayStation world, maybe not / Timothy Williams and Cassi Feldman -- Boyhood, organized sports, and the construction of masculinities / Michael A. Messner -- The televised sports manhood formula / Michael A. Messner, Michele Dunbar, and Darnell Hunt -- Gender in televised sports / Michael A. Messner and Sheryl Cooky -- American flags as big as fields / John Branch -- 'Redskins' is no honor, it's an insult / Bill Plaschke -- The de-athleticization of women: the naming and gender marking of collegiate sport teams / D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn -- Female gymnasts and ice skaters: the dark side / Joan Ryan -- Bench the parents / Buzz Bissinger -- Harm to children in youth sports / Mark Hyman -- Missed opportunities: Boston's student-athletes face a sports program in distress / Bob Hohler -- Ethical dilemmas in American sport: the dark side of competition / D. Stanley Eitzen -- Crime and athletes: new racial stereotypes / Richard E. Lapchick -- Creating the Frankenstein athlete: the drug culture in sports / Fran Zimniuch -- Finding the golden genes / Patrick Barry -- Outraged over the steroids outrage / Robert Lipsyte -- College sports 101: a primer on money, athletics, and higher education in the 21st century / The knight Commission on intercollegiate athletics -- Admissions exemptions benefit athletes / Alan Scher Zagier -- Is sports in your mission statement? / Charles T. Clotfelter -- The big-time college sports plantation and the slaves who drive it / D. Stanley Eitzen -- Does football cost too much? Sally Jenkins -- When domes attack / Dave Zirin -- Corporatetitans competing of Olympic gold: how ad wars hav hijacked the games / Geoff Dembicki -- Sporting dreams die on the 'rez' / Kevin Simpson -- Say it ain't so, big leagues: the downside for Latin American players / Dave Zirin -- The 2010 racial and gender report card: national football league / Richard Lapchick with Jamile M. Kitnurse and Austin Moss II -- Racism, ethnic discrimination, and exclusion of migrants and minorities in sport: a comparative overview of the situation in the European Union / European Union agency for fundamental rights -- Are we there yet? Thirty-seven years later, title IX hasn't fixed it all / R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter -- Her life depends on it II: sport, physical activity, and the health and well-being of American girls and women / Women's sports foundation -- The meaning of success: the athletic experience and the development of male identity / Michael a. Messner -- Changing the game: homophobia, sexism, and lesbians in sport / Pat Griffin -- Gay athletes' dilemma / Anthony Cotton -- On the team: equal opportunity for transgender student athletes / Pat Griffin and Helen J. Carroll -- Growing the game: the globalization of major league baseball / Alan M. Klein -- Nike's crimes / David Macaray -- New media and global sports / George H. Sage.

ISBN

• 9781612050324
• 1612050328

LCCN

• 2011018697
• 99944902099

OCLC

• ocn714715265
• 714715265
• SCSB-1609562

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library