Sociology: Sport & Leisure

We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sp...

What is, or what should be, the function of sport in a globalized, commercialized world? Why does sport matter in the 21st century? In Ethics and G...

Twitter, Facebook, online forums, blogs and websites – scholars are increasingly turning to digital sources to study sport and physical activity. T...

In a world of competing public policy priorities, economic challenges and political uncertainty, sports development organisations and initiatives n...

Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an import...

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is k...

The practice of capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight-game, has grown rapidly in recent years. It has become a popular leisure activity in many cultu...

First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that ma...

Sport History is a growing field of study in Brazil. In the past decades, scholars from different areas have taken an increasing interest in studyi...

Korea has become a powerful force in global sport, with South Korea finishing fifth in the medals table at London 2012 and hosting the Winter Olymp...

The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently i...

Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, ide...

Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues inc...

As Islam’s visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of globa...

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is k...

The London Olympics of 2012 acted as a focal point for an examination of UK sport policy. Individual chapters from leading specialists in their fie...

In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed. Not the least the many normative ideas of sport as good o...

Sport has become an important avenue in how we interpret, remember, and maintain our heritage. Whether it is being applied in tourism marketing and...

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

European National football came together in the summer of 2012 for the 14th occasion. This book sets out to examine the enduring social tensions be...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studi...

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensiv...

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

Despite the musical and social roles they play in many parts of the world, wind bands have not attracted much interest from sociologists. The Socio...

Thousands of children across the United States dream of becoming professional athletes, yet less than one in a thousand high school seniors will go...

During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical an...

This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and s...

Analyses of racialisation processes within and beyond sport would be incomplete without a consideration of ethnicity and ethnic identities. Why? Be...

Despite the importance of sport as a social, economic and political institution, research into sport and social capital has not been extensive. Spo...

This book brings together some of the leading authors in sport and sociocultural diversity. Social and cultural diversity becomes a key conceptual ...

Who makes sport policy and why do we need it? What is the purpose of sport development programmes? Sport Policy and Development answers these qu...

Disability sport is a relatively recent phenomenon, yet it is also one that, particularly in the context of social inclusion, is attracting increas...

Leading scholars in sports communication tackle a wide range of subjects in these essays, including the ways in which people root for their team...

This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sp...

First published in 1938. This study examines various aspects of leisure in the early twentieth century. The author observes the differences in leis...

Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the ...