Sociology: Sport & Leisure

The global success of football icons like Samuel Etoo, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men ac...

The global success of football icons like Samuel Etoo, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men ac...

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? G...

History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, seamlessly blends the historical and philosophical dime...

Athletes across the globe have engaged in high profile protests against state violence since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernicks refusal to stand dur...

New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Trea...

The hope of the Gospel is a universal message, and sports are arguably the universal language. Sharing the former through the latter is a powerful ...

The hope of the Gospel is a universal message, and sports are arguably the universal language. Sharing the former through the latter is a powerful ...

How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics Peggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a ju...

This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces J...

Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation F...

The study of sport has seen rapid expansion in recent years, expanding into more and more disciplines including sociology, history, international r...

This third edition of Sport and Society, with contributions from some of the fields most highly respected scholars, covers the myriad of complex, p...

Any study of sport is incomplete without consideration of its social function and structures, its economic impacts both locally and globally, and i...

This third edition of Sport and Society, with contributions from some of the fields most highly respected scholars, covers the myriad of complex, p...

J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. I play just like my father, he says. Before my father died, ...