Catálogo de libros: Sociología del deporte y el ocio

56 Catálogo de libros: Sociología del deporte y el ocio

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  • Footy Grounds to Grandstands
    Sam Duncan
    Play in the Australian Football League is not what it was. At the game’s founding, Australian football was exactly what the AFL’s Latin motto tells us it is today – ‘the game of the people, for the people’. In its formative years it was played and watched by Australians who loved the game because they understood the way it was played. It was made by them, in the image of their ...
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    21,43 €

  • STUDENT ATHLETES
    FRANK P JOZSA JR.
    Applying concepts, data, and other information from various sources in the literature when and where appropriate, the book reveals and examines the behavior, contribution, and impact of student athletes (SAs) on campuses of American colleges and universities. It highlights, in part, SAs' progress academically while they devoted time and resources to participate in one or mo...
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    142,45 €

  • Kick-off
    David Pendleton
    What took place in Bradford, England in the latter half of the nineteenth century was nothing less than a sporting revolution. Kick-Off charts and analyses Bradford’s story to illustrate the importance of sport’s role in the development of the modern city. Bradford shows us how, from the burgeoning of the first industrial communities, personal and civic identities have been pro...
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    9,10 €

  • My Name Was Mickey Mantle
    Gary Kaschak
    For boys and girls growing up playing baseball in the 50s and 60s, one player stood out above all others—Mickey Mantle.Millions of kids copied his batting stance, ran the bases like he did, and pretended to be him on the sandlot, schoolyards and Little League fields all across the country. But for one young boy that fantasy went far beyond just pretending and believing—convinci...
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    22,68 €

  • SHIFTING SANDS
    JAMES M DORSEY / JAMES MICHAEL DORSEY
    The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured that transition will take years, and these deep-seated differences have ensu...
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    184,83 €

  • Mega-events and social change
    Maurice Roche
    Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. ...
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    169,45 €

  • SPORTS AND MYSTIFICATION
    Massimiliano Angelucci
    What really is what we now call “sport”? Although ubiquitous, it remains a little-understood phenomenon, and - always above reproach - can enjoy a favorable or otherwise indulgent public opinion. However, in sports almost nothing is as it seems. The book therefore uses a rigorous analysis of the sociological, anthropological and historical aspects that characterize the sport ...
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    11,08 €

  • Sport in the Black Atlantic
    Janelle Joseph
    An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora. ...
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    157,53 €

  • Sociology of Sport
    The Sociology of Sport has grown since its inception in the late 1950s and has become robust, and diverse. Many countries now boast strong scholars in the field and this volume reflects the fascinating research being done. This innovative volume is dedicated to a review of the state of the area by region. ...
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    238,66 €

  • Sport Sociology
    Peter Craig
    A long awaited new edition of this popular introduction to the sociology of sport. Fully updated throughout, it is an approachable, student-focused exploration of sport and society today. ...
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    208,29 €

  • Sport and technology
    Roslyn Kerr
    How do new technologies come to be used in sport? This book moves beyond the idea of functionality to explore the many other important factors that athletes and sporting bodies consider throughout the process of adoption. Few would question the difficulty of producing an elite athletic performance. The high level of training, combined with intense competition and pressure from...
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    157,67 €

  • SON OF A BIGOT
    Jack Fitterson
    What you are about to read-and hopefully enjoy-are the views and opinions of an ordinary working-class guy, who is also a sports lover. A lot of my commentary and beliefs are based on how racially equality was-and still is-addressed in the United States. For whatever reason, fundamental fairness was something I was willing to fight for. I expressed my views on many occasions...
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    12,11 €

  • The greening of golf
    Brad Millington / Brian Wilson
    This book is the first comprehensive study of the varyingresponses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as asport and as a global industry, drawing on literaturespertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutionalchange, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport. ...
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    157,31 €

  • Sportsmanship
    Tim Delaney
    Sportsmanship is a broad concept: ethics, fairness, honor and self-control. Some people find it difficult to define what makes a 'good sport,' but state 'I know one when I see one.' This collection of new essays brings together the work of more than two dozen contributors from around the world who teach sportsmanship in a range of academic disciplines including sociology, ps...
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    51,57 €

  • Fair and Foul
    D. Stanley Eitzen / DStanley Eitzen
    The sixth edition of Fair and Foul features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction, and a chapter on big-time college sport. The book explores our love of sport as well as its darker side, with new material throughout on topics such as injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia, and more. ...
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    53,84 €

  • Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
    This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world. ...
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    148,37 €

  • No Ordinary Game
    Kirk Westphal
    This is a book of pure inspiration. Many of the sporting world’s most profound achievements and displays of humanity are never recorded. They happen on sandlots, asphalt, and backyards. Stories of well-known athletes and teams abound in popular literature--what is missing is an exaltation of the moments that can happen to any of the rest of us--and do. No Ordinary Game is the g...
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    14,72 €

  • Fighting Scholars
    ’Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ’Body and Soul’: the construction of a ’carnal sociology’ that constitutes an explorati...
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    57,50 €

  • An ethnography of English football fans
    Geoff Pearson
    Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years’ participant observation ...
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    29,70 €

  • Frozen in Time
    William S. Marshall
    Until now much of the early history of ice hockey in Scotland has been neglected or forgotten - metaphorically frozen in time, lying buried under the ice. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and social history of both the Club and International game in the country from the late 19th century up to 1940. It aims to restore Scottish ice hockey to its right and proper pla...
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    28,81 €

  • First, I’d Like to Thank God
    Simon Desmarais-Zalob
    Do you ever wonder why athletes always seem to thank God, first and foremost, in post-game interviews? Or why they point to the heavens following a home run or a touchdown? This book takes a look at the relationship between top athletes and religiosity (or spirituality) in a number of different ways. It aims to address the issues of when sport and religion began to merge, whet...
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    16,24 €

  • First, I’d Like to Thank God
    Simon Desmarais-Zalob
    Do you ever wonder why athletes always seem to thank God, first and foremost, in post-game interviews? Or why they point to the heavens following a home run or a touchdown? This book takes a look at the relationship between top athletes and religiosity (or spirituality) in a number of different ways. It aims to address the issues of when sport and religion began to merge, whet...
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    24,65 €

  • Gaming the World
    Andrei S. Markovits / Andrei SMarkovits / Lars Rensmann
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in whi...
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    37,24 €

  • Fighting Scholars
    ’Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ’Body and Soul’: the construction of a ’carnal sociology’ that constitutes an explorati...
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    142,31 €

  • Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
    Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization is an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished and emerging scholars in the fields of communication, business, geography, kinesiology, psychology, and more, who employ a wide range of methodologies including quantitative, qualitative, and critical analyses. ...
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    67,70 €

  • The Making of Les Bleus
    Krasnoff / Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
    The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes, a compelling tale that serves as a prism through which to investigate the larger history of France, the evolution of society, the impacts of the media revolution, and the government’s mission of public health. It provides perspective on how France coped with and adapted to the post-1945 world an...
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    141,64 €

  • When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Male
    Lisa Doris Alexander
    This book analyzes how sportswriters have discussed issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, age and class within professional baseball from 1998 to the present. Each chapter looks at the media representations of a specific controversy--the 1998 home-run chase, Alex Rodriguez’s historic contract signing, Barry Bonds’ home runs, Mike Piazza’s 'I am not gay' pr...
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    42,95 €

  • An ethnography of English football fans
    Geoff Pearson
    Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years’ participant observation ...
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    157,52 €

  • Commodified and Criminalized
    Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena W...
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    47,35 €

  • Big-Time Sports in American Universities
    Charles T. Clotfelter / Charles TClotfelter
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    37,85 €


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