Sociological perspectives on sport : the games outside the games /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Series: | Contemporary sociological perspectives series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; SECTION 1: SPORT AND SOCIOLOGY: MEANINGS AND DIMENSIONS; SECTION 2: BIASES AND BARRIERS IN SPORT: CLASS, RACE, GENDER, AND DISABILITY; 1 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste; 2 The Boys Who Beat the Street; 3 The Sports Taboo: Why Blacks Are Like Boys and Whites Are Like Girls; 4 The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement; 5 Sport and the Italian American Quest for Whiteness
- 6 Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender7 Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization"; 8 The Sanctity of Sunday Football: Why Men Love Sports; 9 Being 'Good at Sport': Talent, Ability and Young Women's Sporting Participation; 10 An Iron Man: The Body and Some Contradictions of Hegemonic Masculinity; 11 Transformed Identity: From Disabled Person to Global Paralympian; SECTION 3: THE SOCIAL BONDS GENERATED BY SPORTS: FANDOM, COMMUNITY, AND MEDIA; 12 Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite
- 13 Something about Baseball: Gentrification, "Race Sponsorship," and Competing Class Cultures in Neighborhood Boys' Baseball14 Rooting the Home Team: Why the Packers Won't Leave-and Why the Browns Did; 15 Football, Television, and the Supreme Court: How a Decision 20 Years Ago Brought Commercialization to the World of College Sports; 16 Money, Myth and the Big Match: The Political Economy of the Sports Media; 17 Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flâneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football; 18 The Football-Fan Community as a Determinant Stakeholder in Value Co-creation
- SECTION 4: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE POLITICS OF SPORTS: DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION19 Cuban Baseball: Ideology, Politics, and Market Forces; 20 Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy; 21 Sport, Masculinity, and Black Cultural Resistance; 22 Gay Games or Gay Olympics? Implications for Lesbian Inclusion; 23 Argentina's Left-Wingers; 24 Hoosier Whiteness and the Indiana Pacers: Racialized Strategic Change and the Politics of Organizational Sensemaking; 25 Where Are the Jocks for Justice?; SECTION 5: BREAKING THE NORMATIVE RULES: THE PROBLEMS OF DEVIANCE IN SPORTS
- 26 Creating the Frankenstein Athlete: The Drug Culture in Sports27 Discourses of Deception: Cheating in Professional Running; 28 Male Athletes, Injuries, and Violence; 29 The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode: Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?; 30 Unnecessary Roughness?: School Sports, Peer Networks, and Male Adolescent Violence; 31 The Dark Side of Social Capital: An Ethnography of Sport Governance; 32 Women Athletes as Falsely Accused Deviants: Managing the Lesbian Stigma; SECTION 6: GLOBALIZATION AND SPORTS; 33 Theorizing Sport in the Global Process