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This engaging, comprehensive textbook for sociology of sport
courses takes a critical approach, focusing in particular on issues
of power and inequality. By addressing questions such as "Are
sports free of racism and sexism?" and "Who pays for, and who
benefits from, sports?", students understand sport from a
sociological perspective rather than as simply a spectator or
participant.
This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways
in which 'adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by,
the world around them. The concept of adventure is one that is too
often tackled within subject silos of philosophy, education,
tourism, or leisure. While much of the analysis is strong, there is
little cross-pollination between disciplines. Adventure &
Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one
coherent treatment of the term 'adventure' and the role that it
plays in human social life of the 21st century. It explores how
these practices can be considered more deeply through theoretical
discourses of capitalism, identity construction, technology and
social media, risk-taking, personal development, equalities, and
sustainability. As such, the book speaks to a broad audience of
undergraduate and postgraduate students across diverse subject
areas, and aims to be an accessible starting point for deeper
inquiry.
Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on
track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way
for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family
skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving
Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person
interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of
youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market
forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent
treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern
families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this
unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private
corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments,
and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to
energize skate parks-like soccer fields before them-as platforms
for community engagement and the creation of social and economic
capital.
Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on
track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way
for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family
skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving
Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person
interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of
youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market
forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent
treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern
families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this
unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private
corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments,
and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to
energize skate parks-like soccer fields before them-as platforms
for community engagement and the creation of social and economic
capital.
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