Author : Tim Crabbe,Tony Blackshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134440894
New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance' by Tim Crabbe,Tony Blackshaw Pdf
The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.