Sociology: Sport & Leisure

This collection investigates the time-motion characteristics of collegiate soccer games, repeated-sprint ability in female players, and skill-based...

With no competing works in the field, this seminal reference text focuses on what has become a large subdiscipline within the fields of sociology a...

How have Scottish drinking places changed over three centuries and what makes them distinctively Scottish? What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, ...

The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in Br...

England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Inside, Outside, Donkeys Tails Were you the local Elastics champion growing up? Did you spend every waking mo...

This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The aut...

How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does ...

Rashad McCants peels back the curtain of a generational slave mentality and how it relates to academic fraud within the university system, while co...

Social Sciences in Sport presents discipline-specific knowledge in the social sciences, which aids in understanding the problems and potential of c...

Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sports role in the ma...

How best to turn yourself from sports fan to professional sports journalist? Quickly moving beyond general guidance about sports writing, Joe Gison...

In The Game Culture Reader, editors Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette propose that Game Studiesthat peculiar multi-, inter-, and trans-discip...

'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - Mail on Sunday...

'Thirty feet above ground, I picked some flecks of peeling paint from my skin and looked clean across the dressing-room rooftops ... to the cars wh...