Sociology: Sport & Leisure

Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "mega events" to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Glob...

This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understandin...

The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be...

This book outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to 'play'; that is, to everyday sport and leisure activities that peo...

This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketi...

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an ic...

This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international expe...

Wide-ranging and challenging, this book offers a host of new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and ine...

Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the...

What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of ′over-work′? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of cl...

In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, game...

What is sport? Why does sport matter? How can we use philosophy to understand what sport means today? This engaging and highly original introductio...

Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as ′time off′. In his compellin...

This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of departure, E...

Leisure and food seem to be a natural fit, but the recent, unprecedented focus on all aspects of food has not been reflected in the field of leisur...

What is sport? Why does sport matter? How can we use philosophy to understand what sport means today? This engaging and highly original introductio...

Good entry level text that new students will really appreciate. Clearly written in a style that aids understanding and will develop their knowledge...

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to beco...

Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, this book uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutio...

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The...

During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of ...

Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-...