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Sport and Sociology (Hardcover)
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Sport and Sociology (Hardcover)
Series: Frontiers of Sport
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How has our understanding of sport been shaped by sociological
ideas? How can the study of sport help sociologists to understand
wider society? The sociology of sport is a sub-discipline
approaching maturity. This is the first book to stand back and
reflect upon the subject's growth, to trace its developmental
phases and to take stock of the current fund of knowledge. It
offers a 'state of the art' review of the sociology of sport and
investigates those areas where sport has come to influence the
sociological mainstream. The book also examines how the sociology
of sport has attempted to engage with a popular readership, and
what the consequences of such engagement have been. Focusing on
touchstone issues and concepts within sociological discourse such
as race, gender, celebrity, the body and social theory, the book
assesses the successes and failures of the sociology of sport in
influencing the parent discipline, related sub-disciplines and the
wider public. It also asks to what extent the sociology of sport
can be said to be autonomous, distinctive and distinguished, and
challenges students of sport to extend their work out of the narrow
confines of the subdiscipline and across disciplinary divides. As
the first book to provide a history of the sociology of sport and
to clearly locate the contemporary discipline in the wider currents
of sociological discourse, this is important reading for all
students and scholars interested in the relationship between sport
and society, whether they are working in sport studies or in the
sociological mainstream.
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