Fair Game (RLE Sports Studies)

Myth and Reality in Sport
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-77636-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies

This volume examines modern sport in its social context and concludes that it is beset with over-commercialised motives, damaged by dangerous political alignments and marred by wrongheaded social values. The book provides a thought-provoking analysis and offers new insights into why and how modern sport has evolved into its present dominant position. It calls for radical reforms in the structure of, and attitudes towards, sport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Midwinter, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sport in the Past: Myth and Reality 2. Victorian Society: Midwife of Modern Sport 3. The national Standardisation of Sport 4. The Development of International Sport 5. The Dominance of the Professional 6. The Emergence of the Spectator 7. The Effects of Commerce on Sport 8. The Public Face of Sport 9. The Political Dimension of Sport 10. Sport in the Future.

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