ABSTRACT

Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games seeks not only to inform students about the sports world but also to offer them analytical skills and the application of theoretical perspectives that deepen their awareness and understanding of social processes linking sports to the larger social world. With six original framing essays linking sport to a variety of topics, including race, class, gender, media, politics, deviance, and globalization, and 37 reprinted articles, this text/reader sets a new standard for excellence in teaching sports and society.

section |18 pages

Sport and Sociology

section |146 pages

Biases and Barriers in Sport

chapter |10 pages

Distinction

A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

chapter |9 pages

The Boys Who Beat the Street

chapter |7 pages

The Sports Taboo

Why Blacks Are Like Boys and Whites Are Like Girls

chapter |12 pages

The Anatomy of Scientific Racism

Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement

chapter |15 pages

Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters

Children Constructing Gender

chapter |7 pages

The Sanctity of Sunday Football

Why Men Love Sports

chapter |11 pages

Being ‘Good at Sport’

Talent, Ability and Young Women's Sporting Participation

chapter |9 pages

An Iron ManM

The Body and Some Contradictions of Hegemonic Masculinity

chapter |15 pages

Transformed Identity

From Disabled Person to Global Paralympian

section |119 pages

Social Bonds Generated by Sports

chapter |3 pages

Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite

chapter |24 pages

Something About Baseball

Gentrification, “Race Sponsorship,” and Competing Class Cultures in Neighborhood Boys' Baseball

chapter |7 pages

Rooting the Home Team

Why the Packers Won't Leave— and Why the Browns Did

chapter |5 pages

Football, Television, and the Supreme Court

How a Decision 20 Years Ago Brought Commercialization to the World of College Sports

chapter |17 pages

Money, Myth and the Big Match

The Political Economy of the Sports Media

chapter |14 pages

Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flâneurs

A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football

section |107 pages

The Political Economy and the Politics of Sports

chapter |14 pages

Cuban Baseball

Ideology, Politics, and Market Forces

chapter |5 pages

Argentina's Left-Wingers

chapter |23 pages

Hoosier Whiteness and the Indiana Pacers

Racialized Strategic Change and the Politics of Organizational Sensemaking

section |119 pages

Breaking the Normative Rules

chapter |5 pages

Creating the Frankenstein Athlete

The Drug Culture in Sports

chapter |14 pages

Discourses of Deception

Cheating in Professional Running 1

chapter |11 pages

The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode

Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?

chapter |16 pages

The Dark Side of Social Capital

An Ethnography of Sport Governance

chapter |9 pages

Women Athletes as Falsely Accused Deviants

Managing the Lesbian Stigma

section |103 pages

Globalization and Sports

chapter |12 pages

The Denationalization of Sport

De-ethnicization of the Nation and Identity De-territorialization

chapter |17 pages

Between Adoption and Resistance

Grobalization and Glocalization in the Development of Israeli Basketball