New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'

Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-28885-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.

In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport.

New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crabbe, Tim

Blackshaw, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Behindertensport
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' 1. Introduction: Endings or new beginnings? 2. Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives, deviancy theory and sport 3. Beyond grand narratives: Poststructuralism, new directions and functionalist legacies Part 2: Re-imagining theory and 'method' 4. Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: A conceptual 'toolkit' 5. 'Talking Tactics': Representing 'deviance' in sport Part 3: 'Watching the game': Evoking the new aesthetics of sport and 'deviance' 6. The Premiership: Sporting soap opera and consumptive 'deviance' 7. Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' 8. 'jumpers for goalposts': The community sports agenda and the search for effective control 9. Conclusion: They call it 'roasting'

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw