Making Sense of Sports
Making Sense of Sports

Author: Ellis Cashmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1134612680

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Sports are more important than ever socially, economically and culturally. As well as embodying cherished values and ideals, sports now reflect many of the worries of wider society. Drugs, racism, corruption and violence are all now major concerns and our experience of sport is increasingly subject to a gigantic industry made up of owners, players, sports goods manufacturers, television networks and corporate sponsors. In this newly expanded edition of Making Sense of Sports, Cashmore addresses all these issues as well as the more basic questions about the history of sports, its social context and possible future development. Among the new editions other themes are: * the body, how it works and why it is more cultural than natural * why women continue to be devalued and depreciated by sports * Nike, globalization and the sports industry * art and how it reflects changing conceptions of sports.

Making Sense of Sports
Making Sense of Sports

Author: Ellis Cashmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1134612672

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Sports are more important than ever socially, economically and culturally. As well as embodying cherished values and ideals, sports now reflect many of the worries of wider society. Drugs, racism, corruption and violence are all now major concerns and our experience of sport is increasingly subject to a gigantic industry made up of owners, players, sports goods manufacturers, television networks and corporate sponsors. In this newly expanded edition of Making Sense of Sports, Cashmore addresses all these issues as well as the more basic questions about the history of sports, its social context and possible future development. Among the new editions other themes are: * the body, how it works and why it is more cultural than natural * why women continue to be devalued and depreciated by sports * Nike, globalization and the sports industry * art and how it reflects changing conceptions of sports.

Making Sense of Sports
Making Sense of Sports

Author: Ellis Cashmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 1135278822

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Updated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the biggest and strongest yet. Ellis Cashmore's unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of sports remains the only introduction to combine anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, psychology and sociology with cultural and media studies to produce a distinct unbroken vision of the origins, development and current state of sports. New chapters on exercise culture and the moral climate of sports support a thoroughly overhauled text that includes fresh material on Islam, sports commerce and corruption. Now packed with teaching supplements, including access to a dedicated online resource headquarters with video podcasts of twenty-one chapter outlines from the author (http://tinyurl.com/373oyvr), online quizzes, and an additional twenty-first chapter on depression and mental health in sports and exercise, the new edition contains a cornucopia of thought boxes, as well as guides to further reading, capsule explanations and model essays. In short, Making Sense of Sports is an all-purpose introduction to the study of sports.

Making Sense of Diversity in Organizing Sport
Making Sense of Diversity in Organizing Sport

Author: Annelies Knoppers

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 184126203X

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This superb volume aims to incorporate cutting-edge research designed to transcend the barriers between business and sport. It explores the ways in which diversity can be suppressed by dominant forces.It focuses on the organizational consequences of making sense and assigning meanings to diversity in sporting organizations, paying particular attention to the different approaches used in Europe and America. It concludes with a discussion on their various successes and the ways in which these approaches can be combined to produced a coherent strategy for dealing with diversity in sporting organizations.

Making Sense of Exercise Testing
Making Sense of Exercise Testing

Author: Robert B. Schoene

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 042989368X

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This book makes sense of complex topics by distilling them to basic concepts. It provides normal physiology integrated with indications for and evaluation of disease states. With a fresh clinical approach, it helps answer reoccurring questions.

Power at Play
Power at Play

Author: Michael A. Messner

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 1995-04-30

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780807041055

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Based on interviews with a diverse group of former high school, college, and professional athletes, Power at Play examines the important role sports play in defining masculinity for American men.

Making Sense of Sport
Making Sense of Sport

Author: Ellis Cashmore

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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An introductory textbook which draws on a wide range of disciplines in order to explain the field of sport. The text defines basic terms, provides a framework for studying key problem areas, and is illustrated with examples from international sport.

Sport and Leisure in Social Thought
Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

Author: Grant Jarvie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1134901070

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This much needed book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure.

Psychological Foundations of Sport
Psychological Foundations of Sport

Author: John M. Silva

Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Twenty-five specialists from the field of sports psychology contribute 26 chapters to this text for undergraduate students in sport psychology courses, which may also appeal to graduate students and fellow professionals in the field. The text combines information from both basic and applied sources, from sport psychology and psychology. Coverage includes the evolution of sport psychology, personality and performance, motivation and sport, emotion and sport performance, intervention and performance enhancement, group dynamics, aggression in sport, gender issues in sport, psychological aspects of coaching, and psychological aspects of youth sport. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929 – 1939
The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929 – 1939

Author: Penelope Kissoudi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1317967615

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The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together in peace and concord. The Games were initiated in Athens in 1929 and increasingly became an integral part of the political, cultural and social life of the area. The common global reality is that when an athletic event is staged, attempted friendship seldom receives priority. In the 1930s, however, the Balkan Games provided a rare example of an international athletic event bringing antagonistic states together in friendship. This consideration of the significance of the Balkan Games as an instrument of political optimism provides clear evidence of the occasional positive influence of sport in politics. The work is a case-study of interest to political and social scientists and to historians of Europe and sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.