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We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change.
This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today's societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences on diverse platforms.
Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action.
Power and Global Sport: Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance
Power and Global Sport: Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance
Introduction
Sport is used here as a critical case study in assessing the character of and transformations wrought by global processes more generally. In this connection, several questions arise. Does sport assist in building friendship between peoples and nations? In doing so, as part of broader global civilizing processes, does it extend some degree of emotional identification between members of different societies and civilizations? With the flow of athletic talent across the globe and with the holding of worldwide contests played out in front of people from different nations, and watched by billions via the media sport complex, has an array of more cosmopolitan emotions developed within and between the peoples of different nations? Or, conversely, have globalization processes ...
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