Sociology: Sport & Leisure

Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the...

European National football came together in the summer of 2012 for the 14th occasion. This book sets out to examine the enduring social tensions be...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studi...

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensiv...

This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international expe...

Despite the musical and social roles they play in many parts of the world, wind bands have not attracted much interest from sociologists. The Socio...

Thousands of children across the United States dream of becoming professional athletes, yet less than one in a thousand high school seniors will go...

During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical an...

This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and s...

Analyses of racialisation processes within and beyond sport would be incomplete without a consideration of ethnicity and ethnic identities. Why? Be...

Despite the importance of sport as a social, economic and political institution, research into sport and social capital has not been extensive. Spo...

This book brings together some of the leading authors in sport and sociocultural diversity. Social and cultural diversity becomes a key conceptual ...

Who makes sport policy and why do we need it? What is the purpose of sport development programmes? Sport Policy and Development answers these qu...

Disability sport is a relatively recent phenomenon, yet it is also one that, particularly in the context of social inclusion, is attracting increas...

Leading scholars in sports communication tackle a wide range of subjects in these essays, including the ways in which people root for their team...

This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sp...

First published in 1938. This study examines various aspects of leisure in the early twentieth century. The author observes the differences in leis...

Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the ...

Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World W...

This book examines the phenomenon of athlete activism across all levels of sport, from elite and international sport, to collegiate and semi-pro, a...

As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, as well as in its (many) absence...

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport explores whether high-performance athletes have healthy and prosperous relationships with exer...

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explic...

Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society. The glo...