Sociology: sport & leisure books

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This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective action in football...  Read More >>

This critical, interdisciplinary and international volume seeks to identify intersections of sport and militarism...  Read More >>

This book examines the ways in which sporting institutions are engaged with the local community in projects that...  Read More >>

This book is the first to explore antagonistic cooperation in football; the idea that rival fans can work together...  Read More >>

Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the rapidly changing sociology of music as manifested in Chinese society and Chinese education....  Read More >>

Shares fourteen stories of elite athletes who struggled with significant emotional disorders and mental illness...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between Kaili's branding, built environment, and everyday life: how China's post-Mao built...  Read More >>

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory.  Read More >>

This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing...  Read More >>

Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of...  Read More >>

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football...  Read More >>

This book explores the key issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and reporting as applied to sports organizations,...  Read More >>

By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development...  Read More >>

The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative to...  Read More >>

This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on the innovative forms of solidarity that develop around the joint appropriation and the envisaged...  Read More >>

Drawing on the work of Bourdieu and the concepts of field, capital and habitus, this book shows the inequalities...  Read More >>

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This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods. This book develops an understanding of why counterfeit...  Read More >>

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This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which ‘adventurous practices’ influence, and...  Read More >>