Sociology: Sport & Leisure

This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across th...

This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological ...

The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live aud...

The Olympic Games are the world's most complex and challenging sport mega-event to organize. Managing the Olympics is the first ever attempt to bri...

This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the wa...

Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and c...

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book ex...

While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occi...

The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us goin...

Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and t...

Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a m...

A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of work...

This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and...

Whether espoused by sports leagues, teams, or individual athletes, social issues are part of the sporting world fabric. The sports media often play...

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholar...

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholar...

Club Red is a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika, part of the regimes effort...

For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions ...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource t...

An expansive and compelling chronicle tracing the rise of modern women's basketball Elvera Peps Neuman got lost in the sounds and rhythms of basket...

This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their histori...

Fighting Scholars offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The books main claim is that s...

Fighting Scholars offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The books main claim is that s...

In A Nation of Family and Friends, sociologist Aarti Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting an...

Sport has come to have an increasingly large impact on daily life and commerce across the globe. From mega-events, such as the World Cup or Super B...

Futsal is one of the fastest-growing sports on the planet: over 60 million people play this lightning-fast and tactically intricate variation of in...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on ...