Summary
Contents
Subject index
Fully updated and revised, the Second Edition of Barrie Houlihan's ground-breaking Sport and Society provides students and instructors with a one-stop text that is comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, accessible, international, and engaging. This Second Edition contains five brand new chapters covering key contemporary issues: young athletes and human rights, sport and the city, sport and violence, sport and health, and sport and Islam.
Key Features
Approaches the study of sport from a multi-disciplinary perspective; Presents the importance of social structure, power, and inequality in analyzing the nature and significance of sport in society; Addresses the rapid commercialization and regulation of sport; Engages in comparative analysis to understand problems clearly and produce sound solutions; Expands their knowledge through chapter summaries, guides to further reading, and extensive bibliographies
A superb teaching text, this new edition will be relished by instructors seeking an authoritative introduction to sport and society and students who want a relevant, enriching text for their learning and research needs.
Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure
Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure
Jesus is recorded as saying the poor you will have among you always, and you can help them whenever you like. (Mark 14:7, Revised English Bible)
Overview
- Introduction: What Is Social Exclusion?
- Citizenship, Class and Social Capital
- Class differences in Sport and How They Exacerbate Other Factors
- Sports Participation and Race, Gender, Disability, Age, Geography and Sexuality
- Case Studies: Combating Poverty and Exclusion in Sport and Leisure
- The Costly Parameters of Social Inclusion Via Sport
Introduction: What Is Social Exclusion?
Rowntree in York and Booth in London undertook the first serious studies of poverty in nineteenth-century England. They described, as did Dickens, ‘absolute poverty’ – people ‘on the breadline’. These were people without the basics of life: adequate, warm shelter, nutritious food, ...
- Loading...