New perspectives on sport and 'deviance' : consumption, performativity and social control / Tony Blackshaw and Tim Crabbe.
By: Blackshaw, Tony [author.]
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Contributor(s): Crabbe, Tim [author.].
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415288851.Subject(s): Sports -- Sociological aspects | Deviant behavior | Social controlDDC classification: 306.483 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 306.483 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00179645 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.
In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport.
New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.
Bibliography: (pages 186-201) and index.
Part I: Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' -- Introduction: endings or new beginnings? -- Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives, deviancy theory and sport -- Beyond grand narratives: poststructuralism, new directions and functionalist legacies -- Part II: Re-imaging theory and 'method' -- Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: a conceptual 'toolkit' -- 'Talking tactics': representing 'deviance' in sport -- Part III: 'Watching the game': evoking the new aesthetics of sport and 'deviance' -- The Premiership: sporting soap opera and consumptive 'deviance' -- Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' -- 'Jumpers for goalposts': the community sports agenda and the search for effective social control -- Conclusion: they call it 'roasting'.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- Part I Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' (p. 1)
- 1 Introduction: endings or new beginnings? (p. 3)
- 2 Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives, deviancy theory and sport (p. 18)
- 3 Beyond grand narratives: poststructuralism, new directions and functionalist legacies (p. 42)
- Part II Re-imagining theory and 'method' (p. 61)
- 4 Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: a conceptual 'toolkit' (p. 63)
- 5 'Talking tactics': representing 'deviance' in sport (p. 88)
- Part III 'Watching the game': evoking the new aesthetics of sport and 'deviance' (p. 107)
- 6 The Premiership: sporting soap opera and consumptive 'deviance' (p. 109)
- 7 Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' (p. 134)
- 8 'Jumpers for goalposts': the community sports agenda and the search for effective social control (p. 153)
- 9 Conclusion: they call it 'roasting' (p. 176)
- Notes (p. 184)
- Bibliography (p. 186)
- Index (p. 203)