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Sociology of Sport

Four Volume Set
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August 2011 | 1 664 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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With no competing works in the field, this seminal reference text focuses on what has become a large subdiscipline within the fields of sociology and sport studies.

The timely and comprehensive collection draws upon anthropology, cultural studies, education, history, human geography, media studies, political science and social policy to capture the theoretical, substantive and transnational diversity of the sociology of sport.

A mixture of classic papers and contemporary issues and debates, this major work examines the range of theoretical standpoints that have been used to explain sport; social conflicts and divisions within the field; cultural identities and social sites; and, the diverse influence of globalization processes upon sport.

Volume One: Core Theories and Perspectives on Sport

Volume Two: Social Divisions and Conflicts in Sport

Volume Three: Social Identities and Sites of Sport

Volume Four: Sport and Globalization

 
VOLUME 1: CORE THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT
The Structure and Classification of Games

R. Caillois
The Interdependence of Sport and Culture

G. Luschen
The Autonomy of Modern Sport: Dangerous and Endangered

U. Schimank
Sport as Ritual: Interpretations from Durkheim to Goffman

S. Birrell
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

C. Geertz
Identity Reinforcement in Sport: Revisiting the Symbolic Interactionist Legacy

O. Weiss
From Ritual to Record

A. Guttmann
Sport: A Prison of Measured Time

J-M. Brohm
Sport and Cultural Reification

J. Alt
Sport Without Guarantees: Toward a Cultural Studies That Matters

D.L. Andrews and M.D. Giardina
Social Criticism as Moral Criticism: A Habermasian Take on Sports

W.J. Morgan
Sport and Social Class

P. Bourdieu
An Essay on Sport and Violence' in The Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

N. Elias
Gender on the Sports Agenda

J. Hargreaves
The Myth of Black Sports Supremacy

G.A. Sailes
The Postmodern Ballpark as a Leisure Setting: Enchantment and Simulated De-McDonaldization

G. Ritzer and T. Stillman
The Technologies of the Self: Sport, Feminism and Foucault

P. Markula
The Mirror of Terrorism

J. Baudrillard
 
VOLUME 2: SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND CONFLICTS IN SPORT
Social Class, Young People, Sport and Physical Education

K. Roberts, K. Green and A. Smith
The Paradox of Social Class and Sports Involvement: The Roles of Cultural and Economic Capital

T.C. Wilson
The "New" Corporate Habitus in Adventure Racing

J. Kay and S. Laberge
Women in Sport: Gender Relations and Future Perspectives

G. Pfister
Multiple Bodies: Sportswomen, Soccer and Sexuality

B. Cox and S. Thompson
Culture, Gender Roles and Sport: The Case of Korean Players on the LPGA Tour

E.H. Shin and E.A. Nam
An Iron Man: The Body and Some Contradictions of Hegemonic Masculinity

R.W. Connell
Social Justice and Mens Interests: The Case of Title IX

M.A. Messner and N.M. Solomon
Openly Gay Athletes: Contesting Hegemonic Masculinity in a Homophobic Environment

E. Anderson
From Straight to Gaie? Quebec Sportswomens Discursive Constructions of Sexuality and Destabilization of the Linear Coming Out Process

B. Ravel and G. Raile
On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport

J.A. Long and M.J. McNamee
A Theory of the Preferred Worker: A Structural Explanation for Black Male Dominance in Basketball

S.N. Brooks and M.A. McKail
Islam's View on Physical Activity and Sport: Egyptian Women Interpreting Islam

K. Walseth and K. Fasting
The Nonsense of Native American Sport Imagery: Reclaiming a Past that Never Was

M.A. Robidoux
Whores, Slaves and Stallions: Languages of Exploitation and Accommodation among Boxers

L.J.D. Wacquant
Men, Spinal Cord Injury, Memories and the Narrative Performance of Pain

A.C. Sparkes and B. Smith
Adding Insult to Injury: Workplace Injury in English Professional Football

M.J. Roderick
Coaches, Sexual Harassment and Education

K. Fasting and C. Brackenridge
Reservoir Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Mimesis and Sports-Related Violence

M. Atkinson and K. Young
 
VOLUME 3: SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND SITES OF SPORT
In the Gym: Motives, Meaning and Moral Careers

N. Crossley
Situated Learning in an Australian Surf Club

R. Light
Sport and Social Capital

O. Seippel
Sense and Sensibility at the Ball Park: What Japanese Fans Make of Professional Baseball

W.W. Kelly
False Leeds: The Construction of Hooligan Confrontations

G. Armstrong
Supporters, Followers, Fans and Flaneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football

R. Giulianotti
The Body as Culture: The Case of the Sumo Wrestler

S.H. Whang
Playing Football and Dancing Tango: Embodying Argentina in Movement, Style and Identity

E. Archetti
Traversing the Matrix: Cyborg Athletes, Technology, and the Environment

T.M. Butryn and M.A. Masucci
Civil Rights, Doping Control and the World Anti-doping Code

B. Houlihan
Negotiating Identities Through Disability Sport

H. Chin-Ju and I. Brittain
Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking

S. Lyng
Living on the Edge: The Appeal of Risk Sports for the Professional Middle Class

R. Fletcher
Sensing the Stadium

C. Gaffney and J. Bale
On the Waterfront: Retrospectives on the Relationship Between Sport and Communities

J.M. Smith and A.G. Ingham
Sport and Economic Regeneration in Cities

C. Gratton, S. Shibli and R. Coleman
Culture, Sport and the Night-Time Economy

D. Rowe
David Beckham and the Changing (Re)Presentations of English Identity

J. Harris and B. Clayton
Cathy Freeman: The Quest for Australian Identity

C. Hallinan and T. Bruce
Mapping the Mythical: A Geopolitics of National Sporting Stereotypes

H O'Donnell
Fantasy Football Hooliganism in Popular Media

E. Poulton
 
VOLUME 4: SPORT AND GLOBALIZATION
Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket

J. Kaufman and O. Patterson
Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket

A. Appadurai
Transformations in National Identity through Football in Brazil: Lessons from Two Historical Defeats

J.S. Leite Lopes
How to Influence National Pride? The Olympic Medal Index as a Unifying Narrative

I. Van Hilvoorde, A. Elling and R. Stokvis
Sport, Tribes and Technology: The New Zealand All Blacks' Haka and the Politics of Identity

S.J. Jackson and B. Hokuwhitu
The Whole World Isn't Watching (But We Thought They Were): The Superbowl and United States Solipsism

C.R. Martin and J.L. Reeves
A Brief Overview of the Olympic System

J-L. Chappelet and B. Kubler-Mabbott
Power and Resistance in the Governance of World Football: Theorizing FIFAs Transnational Impact

J. Sugden and A. Tomlinson
Globetrotters and Local Heroes? Labour Migration, Basketball, and Local Identities

M. Falcous and J.A. Maguire
Have Skates, Will Travel: Canada, International Hockey, and the Changing Hockey Labour Market

H. Cantelon
Globalization, Naturalization and Identity: The Case of Borderless Elite Athletes in Japan

N. Chiba, O. Ebihara and S. Morino
The Glocalization of US Sports in South Korea

Y. Cho
The Globalization of Football: A Study in the Globalization of the "Serious Life"

R. Giulianotti and R. Robertson
Policy Transfer and Learning from the West: Elite Basketball Development in the Peoples Republic of China

B. Houlihan, T-C. Tan and M. Green
Human Rights in Sports

B. Kidd and P. Donnelly
Power, Politics and "Sport for Development and Peace": Investigating the Utility of Sport for International Development

S. Darnell
Alterglobalization, Global Social Movements, and the Possibility of Political Transformation through Sport

J. Harvey, J.D. Horne and P. Safai
Mega-Events and Modernity Revisited: Globalization and the Case of the Olympics

M. Roche
Scripting the Nation: Sport, Mega-Events, Foreign Policy and State-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa

S. Cornelissen
Making the World Safe for Global Capital: the Sydney 2000 Olympics and beyond

H.J. Lenskyj

I strongly recommend this set of volumes produced by Richard Giulianotti, one of the most prominent global figures in the social-scientific study of sport. It is cross-disciplinary, extensively comparative, and global in its reach. Not merely is it the finest collection in the fields of sociology and sports studies, it successfully situates these as central to the social sciences

Professor Roland Robertson
Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen

[This four set volume] represent the highset degree of a solid and fundamentally fair, and highly qualified status report on development and content...Giulianotti has undoubtedly done a sterling job.
Bo Carlsson
idrottsforum.org

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