Sociology: sport & leisure books

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Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women's...  Read More >>

The legendary author of The Naked Ape's fascinating study of the world's most popular sport. Desmond Morris guides...  Read More >>

Provides students with a comprehensive overview of sports from ancient to contemporary times, chronicling how sports...  Read More >>

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This is an accessible resource preparing students for the challenges of tourism and hospitality marketing globally....  Read More >>

Sheds light on how various issues, including racism, sexism, ageism, religion, politics, and more, are depicted...  Read More >>

Discusses what causes and influences rivalry, as well as how it impacts sport fans. Featuring research on topics...  Read More >>

This is an accessible resource preparing students for the challenges of tourism and hospitality marketing globally....  Read More >>

Lined 6x9 journal with 108 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive birthday, Anniversary, appreciation,...  Read More >>

Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate social networks, or collections of individuals,...  Read More >>

  This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been...  Read More >>

"""The Power of Sports"" explores the topic of sports in American culture""--"  Read More >>

In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports....  Read More >>

"""The Power of Sports"" explores the topic of sports in American culture""--"  Read More >>

This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy.  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which professional wrestling has been affected by the current era of ‘convergence’,...  Read More >>

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

This book examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital, a cornerstone social science...  Read More >>

""From Mike Pesca, host of the ... Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world...  Read More >>

This book presents a fresh perspective on football fandom in England, going beyond existing debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Die Vereinbarkeit von Spitzensport und Studium stellt für viele Akteure im Spitzensport- und Hochschulsystem eine...  Read More >>

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Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted with fans at all levels, the book explores the tensions between...  Read More >>