Sociology: Sport & Leisure

A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatts swee...

The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries ris...

Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being. What do we think about whe...

''A powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling life'' Gretche...

The American sports stadium, for all its raucous glory, is an overlooked centerpiecea veritable templeof our national culture. A hallowed ground fo...

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

Sports are not what they used to be. New publicly funded stadiums resemble shopping malls. Fans compete for cash prizes in fantasy sports league...

The games that human societies devised over the centuries can be considered one of the most comprehensive and fertile symbolic systems ever created...

A nation''s choice of leisure activities can tell you much about its national character, and Britain has seen a revolution in leisure since the war...

A nation's choice of leisure activities can tell you much about its national character, and Britain has seen a revolution in leisure since the war....

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argue...

There will be a black Springbok over my dead body. Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969Just a year after the controver...

In the twenty-first century, soccer commands the allegiance, interest, and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon in th...

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing complex choreog...

Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics command public attention, whi...

From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection o...

Scholars in leisure studies have amassed an impressive record of knowledge bearing on the social worlds of diverse serious pursuits, yet this spher...

Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucia...

The phenomenon of absorption or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context...

This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and liste...

Today''''s children and adolescents are experiencing higher rates of overweightness/obesity and poorer health outcomes than any other time in histo...

Colin Ward spent much of the 1970s and 1980s on the terraces of football grounds around the country, and following England across the continent. It...

Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has m...