Sport and society : a student introduction / edited by Barrie Houlihan.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 340 pISBN:- 9781412921350 (hbk.) :
- 9781412921367 (pbk.) :
- 9781412921367
- 306.483 HOU
- GV706.5
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.