Sociology: Sport & Leisure

Ken Roberts’ Social Theory, Sport and Leisure offers a clear, compact primer in social theory for students needing to engage with the application o...

The social, cultural and economic significance of sport has never been more evident than it is today. Adopting a critical management perspective, t...

This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar econ...

Twenty years of professionalism has seen rugby union undergo dramatic transformations, from changes to everyday training cultures to the growth of ...

The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport. The first work of its kind, this book explores football ...

Consumer Sexualities explores women’s experiences of shopping in ‘sex shops’ and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives. This enlightenin...

World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for...

Ken Roberts’ Social Theory, Sport and Leisure offers a clear, compact primer in social theory for students needing to engage with the application o...

World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for...

The social, cultural and economic significance of sport has never been more evident than it is today. Adopting a critical management perspective, t...

London hosted the Olympic Games for the third time in 2012, a mega-event where the political, economic and social expectations could hardly be comp...

This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essa...

With close attention to the spheres of sport and religion as important sites of moral currency, this book draws on media coverage of major cases of...

South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the world’s greatest writers and most celebrated footballe...

First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional a...

Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly wor...

Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of ex...

This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essa...

Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late modernity. By centrali...

First published in 1982, Black Sportsmen examines the affect that race has had on sportspeople. The book is based on interviews with a wide range o...

In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George’s Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically ’...

In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particul...

First published in 1982, Black Sportsmen examines the effect that race has had on sportspeople. The book is based on interviews with a wide range o...

Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during on...

The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Si...

Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without cri...

Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without cri...

This comprehensive collection examines the culture of sport and its relationship with various social institutions. The editors first provide a broa...

In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particul...

Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. Features major critical interventio...

Sport and Policy is the first book of its kind to critically analyse the regulatory role of the state and its impact on sport and the intersections...

A chronological history of children's playtime over the last 200 years If you believe the experts, “child’s play”; is serious business. From sociol...

Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental s...

Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels!Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds ...