Sport Culture And Society

Author : Grant Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134401635

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Sport, Culture and Society by Grant Jarvie Pdf

This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an international perspective, Sport, Culture and Society provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport, and includes: a clear and comprehensive structure unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport coverage of core topics and emerging areas extensive original research and new case study material. The book offers a full range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, and guides to further reading. Sport, Culture and Society represents both an important course resource for students of sport and also sets a new agenda for the social scientific study of sport.

Author : Grant Jarvie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415306477

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Sport, Culture and Society by Grant Jarvie Pdf

This exciting new undergraduate textbook introduces the reader to the broad and complex relationship between sport, culture and society, and critically examines the key assumptions that we hold with regard to the nature of sport.

Author : Karin A. E. Volkwein-Caplan
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Exercise
ISBN : 9781841261478

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Culture, Sport, and Physical Activity by Karin A. E. Volkwein-Caplan Pdf

Dealing with different aspects of movement, sports and physical activity, this text examines the effects such activities has on our culture and the benefits of participation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916100330

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Sport, culture, and society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joe Baker,Parissa Safai,Jessica Fraser-Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781134620012

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Health and Elite Sport by Joe Baker,Parissa Safai,Jessica Fraser-Thomas Pdf

Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes. Drawing on theory and empirical data from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, developmental psychology, epidemiology, and physical education, the book explores the benefits and detriments of participation in elite sport for both individuals (athletes, coaches, spectators) and communities. Written by a team of leading international sport researchers, the book examines key issues including: Talent identification and young athletes Abuse in sport Positive youth development through sport Athlete health in periods of transition Health, sport and the family Health in professional sport The Olympics, Paralympics and public health Long term effects of participation in elite sport Highlighting the connections and contradictions between high performance sport and health, the book also discusses the clear and important implications for our socio-cultural, political and developmental understanding of sport. Health and Elite Sport is fascinating and important reading for all students and researchers with an interest in youth sport, sports development, sport policy, sports coaching, exercise and health, physical education, the sociology of sport, or the sociology of health.

Author : Dominic Malcolm,Parissa Safai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136286773

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The Social Organization of Sports Medicine by Dominic Malcolm,Parissa Safai Pdf

The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between sports and medicine and within sports medicine. The book charts changing perceptions of sport within medical discourse, attempts by sports medicine providers to forge professional identities in response to these processes, the day-to-day experiences of deliverers of sports medicine and the reactions of recipients of that healthcare. The contents are organized in four sections, examining the competing and changing ways in which sports medicine is conceived, the ways in which it is organized, the ways in which it is practiced, and points of contestation between traditional and alternative and emerging forms of (sports) medicine. This collection of essays consolidates recent advances in this area of study and establishes a basis for the future development of the field.

Author : Graham Scambler
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335227785

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EBOOK: Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture by Graham Scambler Pdf

This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It starts by tracing the key ‘moments’ in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport, giving detailed accounts of the athletic competition in the ancient games at Olympia; the genesis of modern track-and-field athletics in nineteenth-century England; and the reconstruction by de Coubertin and unfolding of the Olympic movement through the twentieth century. The second section analyses features of sport in detail: The links between exercise, sport and health, including a look at growing rates of obesity and of the role of drug use in society and sport The hyper-commodification of football in the 1990s Representations of sport in the media Sports iconography, with sociological portraits of Muhammad Ali and David Beckham The re-emergence of violence in sport The third section critically analyses the various theoretical approaches adopted by sociologists, and presents a distinctive new theoretical framework for understanding the changing role of sport in society in the era of global disorganized capitalism. This is key reading for students and researchers in sociology of sport and leisure, sport science and health.

Author : Sandra Spickard Prettyman,Brian Lampman
Publisher : R & L Education
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004899045

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Learning Culture Through Sports by Sandra Spickard Prettyman,Brian Lampman Pdf

This book provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical venue by which to examine contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport. In this text, authors take up the challenges faced by sport in our world, especially as it relates to the lives of young people, providing multiple perspectives on the issues, problems, and possibilities of sport in contemporary American society.

Author : Alexis Tadié,J.A. Mangan,Supriya Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781134920310

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Sport, Literature, Society by Alexis Tadié,J.A. Mangan,Supriya Chaudhuri Pdf

Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and sport has been little explored. Sport, Literature, Society looks at a wide variety of case studies ranging from Japan to England, from India to Australia and covers sports as diverse as cycling, football, wrestling and boxing. It concentrates on historical perspectives. The contributors are all academics of international reputation and include historians of sport and literary scholars. Literature may shape our perceptions and reactions to sport as much as sport may inform our reading. As mimetic practice, as aesthetic object, as imaginative release, sport is analogous to literature and the other arts; at the same time, it can become the subject of literary, visual or musical elaborations. Literature often conceptualises the place and role of sport in culture and society. Indeed, sport inhabits literature in ways that have not been adequately studied. Sport studies have investigated the relationships between sport and society, education, gender, nation, and class. To look again at these relationships through the prism of literature enables us to change our focus and to assess the centrality of sport in culture. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Susan Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415806954

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Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society by Susan Grant Pdf

From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women and peasants, with the aim of transforming them into ideal citizens. By using physical culture and sport to assess social, cultural and political developments within the Soviet Union, this book provides a new addition to the historiography of the 1920s and 1930s as well as to general sports history studies.

Author : Grant Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134020553

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Sport, Culture and Society by Grant Jarvie Pdf

It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the place of sport. Sport is part of our social and cultural fabric, possessing a social and commercial power that makes it a potent force in the world, for good and for bad. Sport has helped to start wars and promote international reconciliation, while every government around the world commits public resources to sport because of its perceived benefits. From the bleachers to the boardroom, sport matters. Now available in a fully revised and updated new edition, this exciting, comprehensive and accessible textbook introduces the study of sport, culture and society. International in scope, the book explores the key social theories that shape our understanding of sport as a social phenomenon and critically examines many of the assumptions that underpin that understanding. Placing sport at the very heart of the analysis, and including vibrant sporting examples throughout, the book introduces the student to every core topic and emerging area in the study of sport and society, including: the history and politics of sport sport and globalization sport and the media sport, violence and crime sport, the body and health sport and the environment alternative sports and lifestyles sporting mega-events sport and development. Each chapter includes a wealth of useful features to assist the student, including chapter summaries, highlighted definitions of key terms, practical projects, revision questions, boxed case-studies and biographies, and guides to further reading, with additional teaching and learning resources available on a companion website. Sport, Culture and Society is the most broad-ranging and thoughtful introduction to the socio-cultural analysis of sport currently available and sets a new agenda for the discipline. It is essential reading for all students with an interest in sport. Visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/jarvie.

Author : Kim Toffoletti,Peter Mewett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415883818

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Sport and Its Female Fans by Kim Toffoletti,Peter Mewett Pdf

Why do women follow sports? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field.

Author : Katherine Dashper,Thomas Fletcher,Nicola Mccullough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134053278

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Sports Events, Society and Culture by Katherine Dashper,Thomas Fletcher,Nicola Mccullough Pdf

This innovative and timely volume moves beyond existing operational and pragmatic approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political and mediatised phenomena. As the study of this area is developing there is now a need for critical and theoretically informed debate regarding conceptualisation, significance and roles. This edited collection explores the core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the associated issues of conflict, resistance and power. Chapters promote a critical (re)evaluation of emerging empirical research from a diverse range of sports events and locations from the international to local level. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken with contributions from areas including sports studies, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, communications, politics, tourism and gender studies. Written by leading academics in the area, this thorough exploration of the contested relationship between sports events, society and culture will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in Events, Sport, Tourism and Sociology.

Author : James Gillett,Michelle Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135019150

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Sport, Animals, and Society by James Gillett,Michelle Gilbert Pdf

This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in space, time and place, and the human-animal relationship. The chapters highlight persistent dichotomies in the use of and collaboration with animals for sport, and present strategies for moving forward in the study of interspecies relations.

Author : Joseph A. Maguire,Masayoshi Nakayama
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0714653586

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Japan, Sport and Society by Joseph A. Maguire,Masayoshi Nakayama Pdf

Examines the tension between traditional models of Japanese sport, developed over centuries of relative isolation, and the forces of modernization and Japanese determination to become a global power.