Sociology of Sport

Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities examines the impact of a decreasing cultural homophobia among both gay and straight male athletes. It contends that hypermasculine notions of masculinity no longer dominate sport but that today’s youth increasingly value softer, more inclusive forms of masculinit..

Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities examines the impact of a decreasing cultural homophobia among both gay and straight male athletes. It contends that hypermasculine notions of masculinity no longer dominate sport but that today’s youth increasingly value softer, more inclusive forms of masculinit..

Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities examines the impact of a decreasing cultural homophobia among both gay and straight male athletes. It contends that hypermasculine notions of masculinity no longer dominate sport but that today’s youth increasingly value softer, more inclusive forms of masculinit..

This ground-breaking study examines the nexus of sport, politics and the charity industry through an investigation of water agencies that raise funds to build water systems in the developing world. It explores the political economy of philanthropy and suggests new ways to research the relationships ..

A unique collection of essays on previously marginalised accounts of sport, bringing to the fore an emerging new field of discussion through rigorous theoretical debate from multidisciplinary perspectives...

This new edition examines how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play. By introducing students to a research-led perspective on sport, it highlights the operation of power, patriarchy and pain that a hyper-competitive..

In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies. Sport, Violence and Society explores organized and spontaneous violence, both on the field and off, and calls ..

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. An international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives are set in four thematic sections bring together with particular focus on the stadium. Texts and case-studies make t..

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. An international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives are set in four thematic sections bring together with particular focus on the stadium. Texts and case-studies make t..

Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change that also provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures and the nature of the self and social formations in contemporary society. Making use of extensive empirical material to support innovative theoretical approaches to ..

Using the physical culture of surfing as its focus, this international volume teases out some of the complex relationships between surfing, sex, gender and sexuality. It is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport or gender and sexuality studies...

This book examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture. Lawler sets the surfer against the backdrop of the negative reactions to it by those groups responsible for enforcing the Puritan discipline, offering a fresh take on the relationship betw..