Sociology: Sport & Leisure

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, ...

Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to th...

The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same p...

A New York Times bestseller and a Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and The Times. Is getting a little less comfortable the key to living a...

The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multi-million dollar contracts and almost endless...

'A book as rich and complex as the extraordinary worlds of Turkish football it explores' David Goldblatt'Captures the Turkish game with love, in al...

Sport in the Middle East has become a major issue in global affairs. The contributors to this timely volume discuss the intersection of political a...

A lavishly illustrated revised edition of the 70s cult book, updated by the author and with a bold new design and contemporary images. Before Fran...

In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by wo...

In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by wo...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING 'A fascinating book about the psychology of elite sport Mind G...