Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches

Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches

Author: Noel B. Salazar ,  Nelson H. H. Graburn
ISBN: 9781782383673
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship...  Read More >>

Between Work and Leisure: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds

Between Work and Leisure: The Common Ground of Two Separate...

Author: Robert A. Stebbins ,  Robert A Stebbins
ISBN: 9781412853743
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Between Work and Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that work and leisure are separate and mutually antagonistic...  Read More >>

Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

Author: H. Thorpe
ISBN: 9780230390737
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first...  Read More >>

Understanding Lifestyle Migration: Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life

Understanding Lifestyle Migration: Theoretical Approaches...

Author: M. Benson ,  N. Osbaldiston
ISBN: 9781137328663
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage...  Read More >>

Sport and Policy

Sport and Policy

Author: Russell Hoye (La Trobe University Australia) ,  Matthew Nicholson (La Trobe University Australia)
ISBN: 9780080942605
Format: Electronic book text
$129.23

Sport and Policy is the first book of its kind to critically analyse the regulatory role of the state and its impact...  Read More >>

The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0

The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0

Author: Payal Arora (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415887113
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book investigates Web 2.0 cyberleisure space by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its...  Read More >>

Women, Sport, Society: Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Sport, Society: Further Reflections, Reaffirming...

Author: Roberta Park ,  Patricia Vertinsky
ISBN: 9780415661232
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This book seeks to broaden our understandings about the backgrounds, motivations and achievements of dedicated women...  Read More >>

A Cosmopolitan Journey?: Difference, Distinction and Identity Work in Gap Year Travel

A Cosmopolitan Journey?: Difference, Distinction and...

Author: Helene Snee
ISBN: 9781409453031
Format: Hardback
$336.00

What do young people get out of gap years? A wide range of 'official' sources acknowledge gap years as a way of...  Read More >>

Sports in Society

Sports in Society

Author: Jay Coakley ,  Elizabeth Pike
ISBN: 9780077160548
Format: Paperback
$89.95

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The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport

The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global...

Author: Tamir Bar-On
ISBN: 9781442234734
Format: Hardback
$251.00

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A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China

A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural...

Author: Jenny T. Chio ,  Stevan Harrell
ISBN: 9780295993669
Format: Paperback
$92.40

While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap...  Read More >>

Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity...

Author: Hélène Neveu Kringelbach  ,  Jonathan Skinner
ISBN: 9781782385226
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the...  Read More >>

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence...

Author: Ellis Cashmore ,  J. Cleland
ISBN: 9781137371263
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China

A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural...

Author: Jenny T. Chio ,  Stevan Harrell
ISBN: 9780295993652
Format: Hardback
$290.40

While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap...  Read More >>

Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years

Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War...

Author: Melanie Tebbutt ,  Pamela Sharpe
ISBN: 9780719066146
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men,...  Read More >>

Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography

Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and...

Author: Timothy Shortell ,  Evrick Brown
ISBN: 9781472416162
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Sport Management Cultures

Sport Management Cultures

Author: Vassil Girginov
ISBN: 9780415754873
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This is the first book to address sport management from a cultural perspective. It offers a comprehensive review...  Read More >>

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