Sociology: Sport & Leisure

Take a breath...Read slowly. How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be prese...

"Modern sports" were introduced to Asia in the late nineteenth century as an innovation from the West, concurrently with the development of modern ...

Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent e...

After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing a...

The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success. This important new study ...

This multidisciplinary book draws on sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and history, to explore the diversity, challenges and achievements o...

This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profi...

Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, ...

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and ci...

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful p...

Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice....

Why are sport and exercise important? What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society? Who holds the power in creatin...

Any sports marketing student or prospective sports marketer has to understand in detail genuine industry trends and be able to recognise solutions ...

The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people’s involvement in sport. Drawing on a wide ...

Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militar...

Any sports marketing student or prospective sports marketer has to understand in detail genuine industry trends and be able to recognise solutions ...

Although everyone loves to watch a fair, evenly matched sports contest, there is no such thing as "pure sport". The Sport and Society Reader is a c...

Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militar...

Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal ne...

The state of Israel is a home for a widely diverse population from many different ethnic, religious, cultural and social backgrounds; a new society...

Offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of food and drink in America with fascinating entries on everything from the smell of asparagu...

Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jen...

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel ...

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful p...

The study of sport tourism is on the cusp of moving from a descriptive phase of research into an analytical phase. Consequently, many academics and...

Traditional research methods textbooks tend to present an idealized and simplistic picture of the research process. This ground-breaking text howev...

Key Themes in Youth Sport is a concise, easy to read guide to core concepts in the study of young people’s relationship with sport, exercise and le...

Traditional research methods textbooks tend to present an idealized and simplistic picture of the research process. This ground-breaking text howev...

This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports – parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others – a...

This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports – parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others – a...

To understand play, we need a bottom-up phenomenology of play. This phenomenology highlights the paradox that it is the players who play the game, ...

Acknowledging China’s established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that...

Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of wome...

The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events ...

This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment, identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with an internati...