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Social Impact of Sport

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Chris Hallinan
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Cora Burnett
Dominican Baseball
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Football Association
Government Business Enterprises
GVC Model
Indigenous Australian Participants
Indigenous Players
Individual Regulatory Focus
Informal Sport Activities
Jeroen Vermeulen
Joseph Maguire
Local Project Manager
Localized Sport Practices
Major League Teams
Marianne Meier
Martha Saavedra
Mass Participation Programme
Mozart
Netball Clubs
Paul Verweel
Performance Efficiency Model
psychosocial intervention
Recreation South Africa
Rural Sport
Ruud Stokvis
social change
social inclusion
social well-being
sport development
sport sociology
sport-driven social transformation
Sports Industrial Complex
Tess Kay
UK Sport
Valeria Kunz
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Women's Football
Women’s Football
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415583947
  • Weight: 490g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Sep 2010
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impacts sport can potentially achieve as well as the variable benefits of sport in different social contexts. The contributions are focused around four major themes:

- Sport development and social change: intended and unanticipated consequences

- Empowerment and personal change through sport

- Sport participation, social inclusion and social change

- The impact of sport in society: historical and comparative perspectives

The volume constitutes the first scholarly attempt to locate, compare and conceptualize the social impact of sport in different local, national and international contexts. Through international comparison and empirically grounded case studies the book provides an important new departure in the study of the social meanings of sport in society, linking themes and areas that have previously been studied merely separately from one another.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
About
Ramón Spaaij is a Research Fellow at the Refugee Research Centre and School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.