The sport studies reader / edited and introduced by Alan Tomlinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomlinson, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sociological aspects--Textbooks.

Sports.

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xx, 470 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Sport, as an increasingly prominent dimension of society, has been studied by scholars in the social sciences and humanities for many years, and their studies have provided some answers to these intriguing questions.

The Sport Studies Reader draws upon a selection of seminal and topical contributions in these fields. It provides a comprehensive resource for students and teachers, leading the reader through theory and research in Sport Studies, taking in classic as well as contemporary essays from international authors in the field.

The Sport Studies Reader is divided into nine themed sections, each introduced by Alan Tomlinson and contextualised within the overall development of Sport Studies for the reader. Each section contains: Introduction and discussion of the theme, Suggestions to aid critical and interpretive thinking, Recommended further reading.

Bringing together the work of some of the most influential authors in the field, The Sport Studies Reader represents an essential foundation for approaching the study of sport and its role in society.

Contents:

Alan Tomlinson The Reader and Sport Studies: A General Introduction 1

Section 1 Conceptualizing and theorizing sport 5

1 / Johan Huizinga The Play-Element in Contemporary Civilization 9

2 / Jean-Marie Brohm Theses Towards a Political Sociology of Sport 13

3 / Bero Rigauer Top-Level Sports and 'Achievement' 20

4 / Allen Guttmann Rules of the Game 24

5 / Norbert Elias, Eric Dunning The Quest for Excitement in Leisure 30

6 / Richard Gruneau Problems of Agency and Freedom in Play, Games, and Sport 36

7 / John Hargreaves The Autonomy of Sport 42

8 / Jennifer Hargreaves Theories of Sports: The Neglect of Gender 47

Section 2 Histories 53

9 / Robert W. Malcolmson Social Change 58

10 / Richard Holt Survival and Adaptation 66

11 / J.A. Mangan Athleticism 71

12 / Gillian Avery The Best Type of Girl 78

13 / Peter Bailey Rational Recreation and the New Athleticism 84

14 / Hugh Cunningham Class and Leisure in Mid-Victorian England 91

15 / Tony Mason Amateurs and Professionals 96

16 / Andrew Davies Men: Poverty, Unemployment and the Family 103

Section 3 Politics 109

17 / C.L.R. James The Proof of the Pudding 113

18 / Richard D. Mandell Sportsmanship and Nazi Olympism 118

19 / John Hoberman Sportive Nationalism 124

20 / John Sugden, Alan Bairner' Ma, There's A Helicopter on the Pitch!' SPort, Leisure, and the State in Northern Ireland 130

21 / John Wilson Leisure and Nationalism 136

22 / Maurice Roche Sport and Community: Rhetoric and Reality in the Development of British Sport Policy 142

23 / Margaret Talbot The Politics of Sport and Physical Education 150

24 / Barrie Houlihan The Politics of Sports Policy in Britain: The Example of Drug Abuse 157

Section 4 Media 165

25 / Tony Mason The Traditional Sporting Press in Britain 170

26 / John Hargreaves Constructing Media Sport 174

27 / Steven Barnett Potting the Gold: The Sponsorship Game 179

28 / Garry Whannel Narrative: The Case of Coe and Ovett 185

29 / Neil Blain, Raymond Boyle, Hugh O'Donnell Sport, Delivery Systems and National Culture 192

30 / Richard Holt, Tony Mason Sensationalism and the Popular Press 197

31 / Jennifer Smith Maguire Body Lessons: Fitness Publishing and the Cultural Production of the Fitness Consumer 202

32 / Toby Miller, Geoffrey Lawrence, Jim McKay, David Rowe Global Sport Media 211

Section 5 Class, community and cultural reproduction 219

33 / Thorstein Veblen Modern Survivals of Prowess 223

34 / David C. Itzkowitz Myth and Ideal 228

35 / John Hargreaves Class Divisions 232

36 / Pierre Bourdieu Sport and Social Class 237

37 / Ronald Frankenberg Football and Politics in a North Wales Community (Pentrediwaith) 242

38 / Brian Jackson On the Bowling Green 251

39 / Paul Corrigan What Do Kids Get Out of Football? 256

40 / Loic Wacquant Bodily Capital Among Professional Boxers 261

Section 6 Race and ethnic identities 267

41 / C.L.R. James The Light and the Dark 271

42 / Frank Manning Black Clubs in Bermuda 275

43 / Ernest Cashmore Black Sportsmen 278

44 / Jonathan Long, Ben Carrington, Karl Spracklen 'Asians Cannot Wear Turbans in the Scrum': Explorations of Racist Discourse Within Professional Rugby League 283

45 / Scott Fleming Sport and South Asian Youth: The Perils of 'False Universalism' and Stereotyping 289

46 / Ben Carrington Sport, Masculinity, and Black Cultural Resistance 298

47 / Scott Fleming, Alan Tomlinson Racism and Xenophobia in English Football 304

48 / Pnina Werbner Fun Spaces: On Identity and Social Empowerment Among British Pakistanis 309

Section 7 Gender and sexualities 317

49 / Eric Dunning Sport, Gender and Civilization 322

50 / Audrey Middleton Marking Boundaries: Men's Space and Women's Space in a Yorkshire Village 329

51 / Shirley Prendergast Stoolball-The Pursuit of Vertigo? 334

52 / Sheila Scraton 'Boys Muscle in Where Angels Fear to Tread': Girls' Sub-Cultures and Physical Activities 339

53 / M. Ann Hall Feminist Activism in Sport: A Comparative Study of Women's Sport Advocacy Organizations 343

54 / Rosemary Deem Women and Sport 351

55 / Jayne Caudwell Sex and Politics: Sites of Resistance in Women's Football 356

56 / Jennifer Hargreaves Men and Women and the Gay Games 360

Section 8 Subcultures 365

57 / Peter Donnelly Toward a Definition of Sport Subcultures 369

58 / John Sugden The Exploitation of Disadvantage: The Occupational Sue-Culture of the Boxer 375

59 / Peter Marsh, Elisabeth Rosser, Rom Harre Life on the Terraces 381

60 / Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, John Williams Ordered Segmentation and Football Hooligan Violence 387

61 / Belinda Wheaton, Alan Tomlinson The Changing Gender Order in Sport? The Case of Windsurfing Subcultures 392

62 / Gill Clarke Outlaws in Sport and Education? Exploring the Sporting and Education Experiences of Lesbian Physical Education Teachers 400

63 / Becky Beal Disqualifying the Official: An Exploration of Social Resistance Through the Subculture of Skateboarding 406

64 / Alan M. Klein Pumping Irony: Crisis and Contradiction in Bodybuilding 412

Section 9 Consumption and spectacle 417

65 / Pierre Bourdieu The Universes of Stylistic Possibles 421

66 / Guy Debord The Commodity As Spectacle 426

67 / Jean Baudrillard The Drama of Leisure or the Impossibility of Wasting One's Time 429

68 / Herbert I. Schiller The Transnationalization of Corporate Expression 432

69 / Christopher Lasch The Degradation of Sport 435

70 / Leo Lowenthal The Triumph of Mass Idols 441

71 / Paul Hoch, Bob Kellarman Owning and Selling the Spectacle 448

72 / Richard Gruneau, David Whitson Hockey and the New Politics of Accumulation 452.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

041926020X

0419260307

OCLC:

70668759