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More About This Textbook
Overview
The book that set the standard for sports textbooks has been extensively revised and updated for its new eighth edition. Among the many new topical additions are elite child athletics, gambling in college sports, performance enhancement drugs, sport and nationalism after 9/11, the Beijing Olympics, Nike and other corporations, the power of media in sport, and more on minorities and on disabilities in sport.
The authors are experiences text authors as well as former athletes and coaches. They bring a unique perspective to topics that are current and much on the minds of students and professors competing in an ever more challenging sport environment—one beset by scandal, pressed for revenue production, and riddled with inequality.
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A study of organized sports--professional, amateur, and youth--in the US and Canada. Emphasizes the structure of sports, the social forces that impinge on its activities and organizations, and the impact it has on society. The third edition was in 1986; the first in 1978. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Product Details
Meet the Author
D. Stanley Eitzen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Colorado State University, earned his PhD at the University of Kansas. Although he is well known for his scholarship on homelessness, poverty, social inequality, power, family, and criminology, he is best known for his contributions to the sociology of sport. In 1996, he was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow at the Institute for International Sport. He is the author of Sport in Contemporary Society, 9th Edition (Paradigm 2011).
George H. Sage is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Kinesiology at the University of Northern Colorado. He has published more than fifty articles and is the author of many books, including Globalizing Sport: How Corporations, Media, and Politics Are Changing Sports (Paradigm 2010). He was inducted into the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Hall of Fame in 2006. He is the past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The Sociological Analysis of Sport in Society
Chapter 2: Social and Cultural Sources of the Rise of Sport in North America
Chapter 3: Sport and Societal Values
Chapter 4: Youth and Sport
Chapter 5: Interscholastic Sport
Chapter 6: Intercollegiate Sport
Chapter 7: Social Problems and North American Sport: Violence, Substance Abuse,
Eating Disorders, and Gambling
Chapter 8: Sport and Religion
Chapter 9: Sport and Politics
Chapter 10: Sport and the Economy
Chapter 11: Sport and the Mass Media
Chapter 12: Sport, Social Stratification, and Social Mobility
Chapter 13: Racial-Ethnic Minorities and Sport
Chapter 14: Gender in North American Sport: Continuity and Change
Chapter 15: Contemporary Trends and the Future of Sport in North America
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