ABSTRACT
1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award
Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender.
Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
On Problems of the Emotions in Sport and Leisure
chapter |27 pages
Sport in the Western Civilizing Process
chapter |15 pages
Sport in Space and Time
Trajectories of State Formation and the Early Development of Modern Sport
