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Sport and society : a student introduction / edited by Barrie Houlihan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 340 pISBN:
  • 9781412921350 (hbk.) :
  • 9781412921367 (pbk.) :
  • 9781412921367
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 HOU
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5
Contents:
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT Sport and Social Theory - Peter Donnelly Politics, Power, Policy and Sport - Barrie Houlihan History and Sport - Martin Polley PART TWO: STRUCTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN SPORT Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure - Michael F. Collins The Human Rights of Young Athletes - Paulo David Women, Sport and Gender Inequity - Tess Kay and Ruth Jeanes Sport and Health - Parissa Safai From Violence in Sport to Sports-Related Violence - Kevin Young Sport and Disability - Nigel Thomas The Politics of \'Race\' and Sports Policy in the United Kingdom - Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald Physical Education and School Sport - Kathy Armour and David Kirk Physical Culture and the Polarized American Metropolis - David Andrews, Michael Silk and Robert Pitter PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIALISATION The Business of Sport - Leigh Robinson Sport and the Media - David Stead Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations - John Amis and Trevor Slack Doping and Sport - Barrie Houlihan The Relationship between Sport and Tourism - Mike Weed and Guy Jackson The Olympic Games - Holger Preuss Winners and Losers Sport and Recreation and the Environment - Michael F. Collins PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON AND CONTEXT Sport in North America - Trevor Slack and Milena Parent The United States and Canada Sport in Australia - Murray Phillips and Tara Magdalinski Sport, the Role of the European Union and the Decline of the Nation State? - Ian P. Henry An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim World - Mahfoud Amara Sport and Globalisation - Barrie Houlihan.
Summary: Organised around themes of exclusion and opportunity, commercialism and the global arena of sport, this new edition provides much-needed coverage of the relations between sport practice, social policy and the social contexts in which both occur.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306.483 HOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 206544

Previous ed.: 2003.

Includes bibliographcal references and index.

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT Sport and Social Theory - Peter Donnelly Politics, Power, Policy and Sport - Barrie Houlihan History and Sport - Martin Polley PART TWO: STRUCTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN SPORT Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure - Michael F. Collins The Human Rights of Young Athletes - Paulo David Women, Sport and Gender Inequity - Tess Kay and Ruth Jeanes Sport and Health - Parissa Safai From Violence in Sport to Sports-Related Violence - Kevin Young Sport and Disability - Nigel Thomas The Politics of \'Race\' and Sports Policy in the United Kingdom - Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald Physical Education and School Sport - Kathy Armour and David Kirk Physical Culture and the Polarized American Metropolis - David Andrews, Michael Silk and Robert Pitter PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIALISATION The Business of Sport - Leigh Robinson Sport and the Media - David Stead Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations - John Amis and Trevor Slack Doping and Sport - Barrie Houlihan The Relationship between Sport and Tourism - Mike Weed and Guy Jackson The Olympic Games - Holger Preuss Winners and Losers Sport and Recreation and the Environment - Michael F. Collins PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON AND CONTEXT Sport in North America - Trevor Slack and Milena Parent The United States and Canada Sport in Australia - Murray Phillips and Tara Magdalinski Sport, the Role of the European Union and the Decline of the Nation State? - Ian P. Henry An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim World - Mahfoud Amara Sport and Globalisation - Barrie Houlihan.

Organised around themes of exclusion and opportunity, commercialism and the global arena of sport, this new edition provides much-needed coverage of the relations between sport practice, social policy and the social contexts in which both occur.

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