Contemporary issues in sociology of sport
Contemporary issues in sociology of sport / Andrew Yiannakis, Merrill J. Melnick editors Melnick, Merrill J.
Publisher: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2001.
ISBN: 0736037101
DDC: 306.4830973
LCC: GV706.5
Notes:
Rev. ed. of: Sport sociology. 4th ed. c1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit I. Emergence and Development of Sociology of Sport. 1. Physical
Education, Sociology, and Sociology of Sport: Points of Intersection
/ George H. Sage -- Unit II. Sport, Power, and Ideology. 2. The Great
American Football Ritual: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender
Inequality / Douglas E. Foley. 3. Sports Ideology, Attitudes Towards
Women, and Antihomosexual Attitudes / Joseph Harry. 4. Disqualifying
the Official: An Exploration of Social Resistance Through the
Subculture of Skateboarding / Becky Beal -- Unit III. Children in
Sport. 5. Backyard Versus Little League Baseball: Some Observations
on the Impoverishment of Children's Games in Contemporary America /
Edward C. Devereux. 6. Learning Life's Lessons in Tee Ball: The
Reinforcement of Gender and Status in Kindergarten Sport / Melissa A.
Landers and Gary Alan Fine. 7. Action Research in Youth Soccer:
Assessing the Acceptability of an Alternative Program / B. Christine
Green -- Unit IV. Impacts of High School Sports Participation. 8.
Participation in High School Competitive Sports: A Subversion of
School Mission or Contribution to Academic Goals? / Naomi Fejgin. 9.
Athletic Participation and Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The
Different Worlds of Boys and Girls / Kathleen E. Miller, Donald F.
Sabo and Michael P. Farrell / [et al.]. 10. Student Council,
Volunteering, Basketball, or Marching Band: What Kind of
Extracurricular Involvement Matters? / Jacquelynne S. Eccles and
Bonnie L. Barber -- Unit V. Big-Time Sports and the College
Experience. 11. College Sports Inc.: The Athletic Department vs. the
University / Murray Sperber. 12. Sport Participation and Women's
Personal Empowerment: Experiences of the College Athlete / Elaine M.
Blinde, Diane E. Taub and Lingling Han. 13. The College Life
Experiences of African American Women Athletes / Robert M. Sellers,
Gabriel P. Kuperminc and Alphonse Damas, Jr. -- Unit VI. Race,
Ethnicity, and Sport. 14. The Stacking of Latinos in Major League
Baseball: A Frogotten Minority? / G. Leticia Gonzalez. 15. Hail to
the Redskins? Public Reactions to a Racially Insensitive Team Name /
Lee Sigelman. 16. Blacks A Key Functionaries: A Study of Racial
Stratification in Professional Sport / Arthur S. Evans, Jr. -- Unit
VII. The Body in Culture and Sport. 17. Machines, Missiles, and Men:
Images of the Male Body on ABC's Monday Night Football / Nick
Trujillo. 18. Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin: The
Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies / Pirkko Markula. 19. The
Politics of the Body and the Body Politic: Magic Johnson and the
Ideology of AIDS / Samantha King -- Unit VIII. Gender and Sport:
Constructions of Femininity and Masculinity. 20. Snowboarding: The
Construction of Gender in an Emerging Sport / Kristin L. Anderson.
21. Tender Machos: Masculine Contrasts in the Mexican Baseball League
/ Alan M. Klein. 22. "It's Part of the Game": Physicality and the
Production of Gender in Women's Hockey / Nancy Theberge -- Unit IX.
Sport and the Mediated Image. 23. The Gender of Audience Building:
Televised Coverage of Women's and Men's NCAA Basketball / Michael A.
Messner, Margaret Carlisle Duncan and Faye Linda Wachs. 24. Speed,
Aggression, Strength, and Tactical Naivete: The Portrayal of the
Black Soccer Player on Television / David McCarthy and Robyn L.
Jones. 25. Reading Nancy Lopez: Decoding Representations of Race,
Class, and Sexuality / Katherine M. Jamieson -- Unit X. Sport and
Deviance: The Darker Side of Sportsworld. 26. Positive Deviance Among
Athletes: The Implications of Overconformity to the Sport Ethic /
Robert Hughes and Jay Coakley. 27. Interpretations and Explanations
of Deviance Among College Athletes: A Case Study / Eldon E. Snyder.
28. Gender, Sport, and Aggressive Behavior Outside Sport / Howard L.
Nixon II -- Unit XI. Sport Subcultures: Alternate Sport Communities
and Personal Identity. 29. The Construction and Confirmation of
Identity in Sport Subcultures / Peter Donnelly and Kevin Young. 30.
Pumping Irony: Crisis and Contradiction in Bodybuilding / Alan M.
Klein. 31. The Changing Gender Order in Sport? The Case of
Windsurfing Subcultures / Belinda Wheaton and Alan Tomlinson -- Unit
XII. Sport and Globalization. 32. Sport, World Economy, Global
Culture, and New Social Movements / Jean Harvey and Francois Houle.
33. Sport and Culture As Contested Terrain: Americanization in the
Caribbean / Alan M. Klein. 34. Between and Beyond the Global and the
Local: American Popular Sporting Culture in New Zealand / Steven J.
Jackson and David L. Andrews.
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