Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Jarvie, Grant

Routledge

This much needed book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure.

Sport & Leisure Social Thought CL

Maguire, Joseph

Sports & Outdoors

This much needed book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure.

Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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: <ul>
<li>a clear and comprehensive structure</li> <li>unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport</li> <li>coverage of core topics and emerging areas </li> <li>extensive original research and new case study material.</li>
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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.

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: <ul>
<li>the history and politics of sport</li> <li>sport and globalization</li> <li>sport and the media</li> <li>sport, violence and crime</li> <li>sport, the body and health</li> <li>sport and the environment</li> <li>alternative sports and lifestyles</li> <li>sporting mega-events</li> <li>sport and development.</li>
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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.

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, second edition

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, second edition (Volume 4)

Philosophy

Sport, Culture And Society: An Introduction

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.

Business & Money

Gorely, Trish

Shaw, Dave

Corban, Rod

Industries

In recent years the interest in the patterns and policies of South African sport has grown. This book examines the increasingly complex issue of race, class and sport in the context of South African social relations. The author disputes evaluations made purely on the question of race, maintaining that it is important to examine the complex interaction between racial and class dynamics as a background for understanding the South African way of life. The book demonstrates that sport must be understood in the context of the ensemble of social relations characterizing the South African social formation.

Class, race, and sport in South Africa's political economy

Routledge& Kegan Paul

This text explores the place, meaning and content of Celtic sport: the place, passion and meaning of rugby in Wales; shinty in Scotland; and football in Brittany. It provides for an explanation of the links betweenn civic and ethnic nationalism in Irish sport, the role of the Gaelic Athletic Association in both Ireland and Scotland, and a critical evaluation of the part played by sport in political nationalism in France. The author seeks to explain why so many of the peripheral borderlands of Europe, struggling for elements of autonomy, tend to be pasionate about national and regional forms of sport.

Sport in the Making of Celtic Culture (Sport and Nation)

History

Europe

Leicester University Press

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Books by Jarvie, Grant

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Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Sport & Leisure Social Thought CL

Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, second edition

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, second edition (Volume 4)

Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction

Class, race, and sport in South Africa's political economy

Sport in the Making of Celtic Culture (Sport and Nation)