Houlihan / Malcolm Sport and Society

A Student Introduction
3. Third Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4739-4323-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 608 Seiten, EPUB

'This third edition of Sport and Society, with contributions from some of the field’s most highly respected scholars, covers the myriad of complex, pervasive and global issues confronting sport in the 21st century. It continues to be a foundation text for students across most sport disciplines'
- Russel Hoye, La Trobe University, Australia
‘The third edition of Sport and Society reinforces its place as one of the most valuable texts for students and others engaging in social scientific study of sport. Overall, the book continues to achieve an unrivalled balance between different social science disciplines that have been applied to sport; between local, national and international issues; and between broad overviews and specific detail on every topic. The end result is a book that is "a must" on many academic reading lists!'

- Iain Lindsey, Durham University, UK

Fully updated and revised, the 
Third Edition of Barrie Houlihan and Dominic Malcolm's ground-breaking 
Sport and Society provides students and instructors with a one-stop text that is comprehensive, accessible, international, and engaging. This popular book:


Approaches the study of sport from a multi-disciplinary perspective
Presents the importance of social structure, power, and inequality in analysing the nature and significance of sport in society
Addresses the rapid commercialization and regulation of sport
Engages in comparative analysis to understand problems clearly and produce sound solutions
Expands students' knowledge through chapter summaries, guides to further reading, and extensive bibliographies
Offers five new chapters addressing the key contemporary issues of: lifestyle sport; sport for development and peace; the governance of international sport organisations; sports fandom; and sport in East Asia.
A superb teaching text, this new edition will be relished by instructors seeking an authoritative introduction to sport and society and students who want a relevant, enriching text for their learning and research needs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Houlihan, Barrie

Malcolm, Dominic

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT

Sport and Social Theory - Dominic Malcolm

Power, Politics and Sport - Barrie Houlihan

History and Sport - Martin Polley and Fiona Skillen

PART TWO: STRUCTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN SPORT

Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure - Michael F. Collins

Lifestyle Sport - Belinda Wheaton

Women, Sport and Gender Inequity - Ruth Jeanes and Laura Hills

Sport and Health - Parissa Safai and Dominic Malcolm

Sport for Development - Richard Giulianotti

Sport and Disability - Nigel Thomas and Andy Smith

The Politics of 'Race' and Sports Policy in the United Kingdom - Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald

Physical Culture and the Polarised American Metropolis - David Andrews, Mike Silk and Robert Pitter

PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIALISATION

The Business of Sport - Leigh Robinson

Sport and the Media - Richard Haynes

Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations - John Amis and Trevor Slack

Doping and Sport - Barrie Houlihan

The Relationship between Sport and Tourism - Mike Weed and Guy Jackson

The Olympic Games: Winners and Losers - Holger Preuss

Fandom - Kevin Dixon

Sport Governance - Arnout Geeraert

PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON AND CONTEXT

Sport in North America: The United States and Canada - Trevor Slack and Milena Parent

Sport in the Asia-Pacific region - Alan Bairner and Jung Woo Lee

Sport, the role of the European Union and the decline of the national state? - Ian P. Henry

An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim World - Mahfoud Amara

Sport and Globalisation - Barrie Houlihan

Über Autor(innen)

Houlihan, Barrie
Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. His research interests include the domestic and international policy processes for sport.

He has authored or edited twenty books and over fifty journal articles. His most recent books include Managing Elite Sport Systems (edited with Svein Andersen and Lars Tore Ronglan, Routledge 2015), Sport Policy in Britain (with Iain Lindsey, Routledge 2012) and a third edition of Sport and Society (edited with Dominic Malcolm, SAGE 2015).

Barrie has undertaken consultancy projects for various UK government departments, UK Sport, UNESCO, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the European Union. He is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

Malcolm, Dominic
Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. Following a Politics degree at Nottingham University, Dominic studied for a Masters in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Leicester. On completion of the Masters he was appointed Research Associate in the Centre for Research into Sport and Society, where he subsequently became Lecturer and Director of Masters Programmes. He completed his PhD at Leicester in December 2004.