ABSTRACT
Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world’s favourite sport.
This book sheds critical new light on key issues in contemporary football, with each chapter using a different theoretical lens, drawing on the work of key thinkers from Elias and Foucault to Hall and Maffesoli. It explores issues and topics central to the study of modern football, including homophobia, feminist-informed coaching practice, the racialised experiences of black professional footballers, the concussion crisis and the role of identity in online football communities. It also looks ahead at the issues that are likely to define the research agenda in football studies in years to come.
This is fascinating reading for any student or researcher with an interest in football, the sociology of sport, social theory or social issues in wider society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
Established Social Theories and Football
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
How an Ethos of Amateurism Can Support the Integration of an Ecological Approach to Learning and Development in Football Academies
chapter Chapter 3|13 pages
The McDonaldisation of Football's Formal Coach Education?
part II|58 pages
Emerging Social Theories and Football
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Desire, Drive and the Melancholy of English Football
chapter Chapter 6|12 pages
Negotiating Identity Conflict Through Football
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Professional Knowledge Development in Performance Pathways
part III|53 pages
Social Theories of Gender and Sexuality in Football
chapter Chapter 8|13 pages
Experiences of Female Football Referees
chapter Chapter 9|13 pages
Critical Feminism and Football Pundits
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Towards the Application of Feminist-Informed Pedagogical Principles into Coaching Practice
chapter Chapter 11|13 pages
English (Men's) Football, Masculinity and Homophobia
part IV|34 pages
Social Theories of ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Football