Sport And Physical Culture In Canadian Society

Author : Jay Scherer,Jane Crossman,Brian Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0134682904

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Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society by Jay Scherer,Jane Crossman,Brian Wilson Pdf

Social Dimensions of Canadian Sport and Physical Activity by Jane Crossman and Jay Scherer is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the relationship between sociological issues and sport, with a specific focus on the Canadian sports industry. KEY TOPICS: Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society;Thinking Sociologically: Sport, Physical Culture, and Critical Theory;Sport and Physical Culture in Historical Perspective;Sport and Social Stratification;Physical Culture, Sport, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada;Sex, Gender, and Sexuality;Youth Sport and Physical Culture;Deviance, Sport, and Physical Culture;Violence and Sport;Sport and Health;Sport, Media, and Ideology;Sport, Politics, and Policy;The Business of Sport;Globalization, Sport, and International Development;Sport and the Environment;Sport and the Future MARKET: Appropriate for Sociology of Sport courses.

Author : Jay Scherer,Brian Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Sports
ISBN : OCLC:1322243037

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Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society by Jay Scherer,Brian Wilson Pdf

Author : Jean Harvey,Hart Cantelon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780776601151

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Not Just a Game by Jean Harvey,Hart Cantelon Pdf

Organized sport as we know it is not an expression of social consensus or of continuing progess toward a better world, nor is it a homogenous, cohesive entity. This book invites us to consider the hidden face of Canadian sport.

Author : Janice Forsyth,Audrey R. Giles
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774824231

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Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada by Janice Forsyth,Audrey R. Giles Pdf

Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada uses sport as a lens through which to examine issues such as individual and community health, gender and race relations, culture and colonialism, and self-determination and agency. In this groundbreaking volume, leading scholars offer a multidisciplinary perspective on how unequal power relations influence the ability of Aboriginal people in Canada to implement their own visions for sport. The diverse analyses illuminate how Aboriginal people employ sport as a venue through which to assert their cultural identities and find a positive space for themselves and upcoming generations in contemporary Canadian society.

Author : Carly Adams
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492599203

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Sport and Recreation in Canadian History by Carly Adams Pdf

Serving as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future. While this text focuses on sport and recreation practices on these lands now claimed by Canada, it is set within a larger historical context of interconnecting social and cultural practices to speak to the sustained tensions, complexities, and contradictions prevalent in Canadian society. The editor, Dr. Carly Adams, and her 17 contributing experts from across Canada bring the latest research in all areas of Canadian sport history to life and present a thorough look at the nation’s past events. The text challenges the dominant narratives and encourages students to think critically about Canadian sport history. It examines how gender, ethnicity, race, religion, ability, class, and other systems of oppression and privilege have shaped sport and recreation practices, with Canadian sporting culture reproducing many of the same oppressive systems that exist on the larger scale. Sport and Recreation in Canadian History separates itself from its competitors by providing an abundance of pedagogical aids. Sidebars highlighting prominent people provide glimpses of figures who made a significant impact on Canadian sport history. Transformative Moment sidebars focus on significant events as they relate to specific themes, such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, or ability. A comprehensive timeline showcases where important events fell in relation to one another, while the text acknowledges the problem of presenting history in a linear way and provides a more nuanced discussion of time. Descriptions of primary source documents—such as newspaper articles, photographs, and historical documents—are accompanied by explanations of how sport historians work with these documents. Sport and Recreation in Canadian History asks readers to think differently about the history of Canadian sport, and it examines how past people, moments, and events continue to shape 21st-century sport.

Author : George Karlis
Publisher : Thompson Educational Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Leisure
ISBN : 1550771671

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Leisure and Recreation in Canadian Society by George Karlis Pdf

Author : Lucie Thibault,Jean Harvey
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780776620954

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Sport Policy in Canada by Lucie Thibault,Jean Harvey Pdf

"Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society, University of Ottawa."

Author : Bruce Kidd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781487516857

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The Struggle for Canadian Sport by Bruce Kidd Pdf

Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression. In The Struggle for Canadian Sport Bruce Kidd illuminates the complex and fractious process that produced the familiar contours of Canadian sport today -- the hegemony of continental cartels like the NHL, the enormous ideological power of the media, the shadowed participation of women in sports, and the strong nationalism of the amateur Olympic sports bodies. Kidd focuses on four major Canadian organizations of the interwar period: the Amateur Athletic Union, the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation, the Workers' Sport Association, and the National Hockey League. Each of these organizations became focal points of debate and political activity, and they often struggled with each other - each had a radically different agenda: The AAU sought `the making of men' and the strengthening of English-Canadian nationalism; the WAAF promoted the health and well-being of sportswomen; the WSA was a vehicle for socialism; and the NHL was concerned with lucrative spectacles. These national organizations stimulated and steered many of the resources available for sport and contributed significantly to the expansion of opportunities. They enjoyed far more power than other Canadian cultural organizations of the period, and they attempted to manipulate both the direction and philosophy of Canadian athletics. Through their control of the rules and prestigious events and their countless interventions in the mass media, they shaped the dominant practices and coined the very language with which Canadians discussed what sports should mean. The success and outcome of each group, as well as their confrontations with one another were crucial in shaping modern Canadian sports. The Struggle for Canadian Sport adds to our understanding of the material and social conditions under which people created and elaborated sports and the contested ideological terrain on which sports were played and interpreted. Winner of the North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) 1997 book award

Author : Janelle Joseph,Simon Darnell,Yuka Nakamura
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551304144

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Race and Sport in Canada by Janelle Joseph,Simon Darnell,Yuka Nakamura Pdf

Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities is the first anthology to explore intersections of race with the constructions of gender, sexuality, class, and ability within the context of Canadian sport settings. Written by a collection of emerging and established scholars, this book is broadly organized around three interrelated areas: historical approaches to the study of race and sport in Canada; Canadian immigration and the study of race and sport; and the study of race and sport beyond Canada's borders. Within these themes, a variety of relevant topics are discussed, including black football players in twentieth-century Canada, the structural barriers to sports participation faced by immigrants arriving to Atlantic Canada, and NCAA scholarships and Canadian athletes. Race and Sport in Canada will be of interest to the general reader as well as to instructors and students in the fields of sport studies, sociology, critical race studies, cultural studies, and education.

Author : Jane Crossman,Jay Scherer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0133444465

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Social Dimensions of Canadian Sport by Jane Crossman,Jay Scherer Pdf

Social Dimensions of Canadian Sport and Physical Activity by Jane Crossman and Jay Scherer is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the relationship between sociological issues and sport, with a specific focus on the Canadian sports industry. Each chapter in this contributed text is written by experts in their field, using both Canadian and international perspectives to address contemporary sociological issues. The authors hope that this text will provide students with a sound basis for understanding the social dimensions of sport and physical activity from a uniquely Canadian perspective.

Author : Kevin Young,Philip White
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X030115864

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Sport and Gender in Canada by Kevin Young,Philip White Pdf

This thoroughly revised collection examines a wide range of gender related issues, all of which contribute to a larger body of knowledge about how gender operates as a key factor in the way sport is played, organized, and funded in Canada.

Author : Robert Pitter,David L. Andrews,Joshua I. Newman
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781450468657

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Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity by Robert Pitter,David L. Andrews,Joshua I. Newman Pdf

This work explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. It applies social theory to a broad range of physical activities such as sports, fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others. "This book is an introduction to the social and cultural issues that society tackles when its members are physically active. It emphasizes the promotion of healthy individuals and a healthy body in the many movement settings where the body is active. This book takes a contemporary approach to physical culture to include not just sport but also fitness, dance, aerobics, weight training and more. The authors take a community approach to understanding the factors involved in crafting a healthy society. The aut

Author : Patricia Vertinsky,Jennifer Hargreaves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134227051

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Physical Culture, Power, and the Body by Patricia Vertinsky,Jennifer Hargreaves Pdf

During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.

Author : Joshua I. Newman,Holly Thorpe,David Andrews
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813591810

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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body by Joshua I. Newman,Holly Thorpe,David Andrews Pdf

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.

Author : Alex Channon,Katherine Dashper,Thomas Fletcher,Robert J. Lake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351856799

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Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture by Alex Channon,Katherine Dashper,Thomas Fletcher,Robert J. Lake Pdf

Scholars working in the academic field of sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms, along with many related activities, have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only men’s athletic achievements. While the growth of women’s sport throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has extinguished the notion of female frailty, revealing that women can embody athletic qualities previously thought exclusive to men, the continuation of sex segregation in many settings has left something of a discursive ‘back door’ through which ideals of male athletic superiority can escape unscathed, retaining their influence over wider cultural belief systems. However, sex-integrated sport potentially offers a radical departure from such beliefs, as it challenges us to reject assumptions of male superiority, entertaining very different visions of sex difference and gender relations to those typically constructed through traditional models of physical culture. This comprehensive collection offers a diverse range of international case studies that reaffirm the contemporary relevance of sex integration debates, and also articulate the possibility of sport acting as a legitimate space for political struggle, resistance and change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.