Sociology: Sport & Leisure

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field  Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges...

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. S...

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. S...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the ...

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers ...

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse researc...

Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explor...

Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprent...

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the s...

This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensi...

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home,...

This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, prob...

This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and deba...

Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions ...

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying...

Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following. It is also riven with corruption, racism,...

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological per...

This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physi...

Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities hav...

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysi...

Analysing in-depth data from 11 European countries, this collection explores the rise of the European running market, the reasons and motives for r...