TY - BOOK AU - Houlihan,Barrie TI - Sport and society: a student introduction SN - 9781412921350 (hbk.) : AV - GV706.5 U1 - 306.483 HOU PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - SAGE KW - Sports KW - Social aspects KW - Sport KW - ukslc KW - Sociology & anthropology KW - thema KW - Cultural studies KW - Lifestyle, hobbies & leisure KW - Sports & active outdoor recreation N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -