Sociology: sport & leisure books

Draws upon popular business-oriented shows such as ""The Apprentice and Dragons' Den"" to explore the relationship...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Through participant observations, sporting...  Read More >>

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

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Travel and tourism stories have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written...  Read More >>

Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? This title explores this question...  Read More >>

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality...  Read More >>

Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self...  Read More >>

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

A leading psychologist explores the phenomenon of athletes across the sports world who engage in high-risk behavior...  Read More >>

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The phenomenon of ""absorption"" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion...  Read More >>

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices...  Read More >>

Sport and International Development offers a critical sociological analysis of the emerging Sport for Development...  Read More >>

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A range of thinkers in philosophy, religion, and the social sciences have argued that thanks to science, technology,...  Read More >>

Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this bookuncovers why East Germany was for two decades...  Read More >>

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When the author found himself doing the same things week in, week out while living in England's capital, he decided...  Read More >>

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