Sport in social development : traditions, transitions, and transformations / Alan G Ingham and John W Loy (editors).
By: Ingham, Alan G
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Contributor(s): Loy, John W
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BookPublisher: Illinois : Human Kinetics Publishers, 1993Edition: 1st ed.Description: 273p + hbk.ISBN: 0873224671; 9780873224673.Subject(s): Sports -- Sociological aspects| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main | 306.483 ING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000314983 |
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Sociologists use a cultural studies approach as the basis for 11 critical essays challenging the prevailing assumptions about the role of professional and Olympic sports in modern society, especially how class and gender cultures affect sport and how sport affects subcultures. In addition to modern urban America, they examine ancient Greece, Victorian England and Wales, and Latin America. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
The essays in this book challenge common assumptions about sport in modern society. The authors use a cultural studies approach to examine how class and gender affects sport, and how sport affects culture, especially sub-cultures.