Sport and society : a student introduction /
edited by Barrie Houlihan
- 2. ed.
- Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2010
- xviii, 585 s. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Previous ed.: 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One Perspectives on Sport; Peter Donnelly Sport and social theory; Barrie Houlihan Politics, power, policy and sport; Martin Polley History and sport; Part Two Structuring Opportunities in Sport; Michael F. Collins Social exclusion from sport and leisure; Paulo David The human rights of young athletes; Tess Kay and Ruth Jeanes Women, sport and gender inequity; Parissa Safai Sport and health; Kevin Young From violence in sport to sports-related violence; Nigel Thomas Sport and disability; Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald The politics of \'race\' and sports policy in the United Kingdom; Kathy Armour and David Kirk Physical education and school sport; David Andrews, Michael Silk and Robert Pitter Physical Culture and the Polarized American Metropolis; Part Three The Impact of Commercialisation; Leigh Robinson The business of sport; David Stead Sport and the media; John Amis and Trevor Slack Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations; Barrie Houlihan Doping and sport; Mike Weed and Guy Jackson The relationship between sport and tourism; Holger Preuss The Olympic Games: winners and losers; Michael F. Collins Sport and recreation and the environment; Part Four International Comparison and Context; Trevor Slack and Milena Parent Sport in North America: The United States and Canada; Murray Phillips and Tara Magdalinski Sport in Australia; Ian P. Henry Sport, the role of the European Union and the decline of the nation state?; Mahfoud Amara An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim world; Barrie Houlihan Sport and globalisation
Praise for the First Edition: B̀€arrie Houlihan\'s astonishingly ambitious and skilfully assembled collection, Sport and Society, examines the relations between sport, social policy and the social context that underlies the two. Organized around such themes as exclusion, commercialism and international comparisons, the book allows the reader to understand not only the centrality of sport to contemporary society, but the often perplexing policies that contrive to encourage or deny participation, promote or deter public...