Sociology of North American SportThe book that set the standard for sports textbooks has been extensively revised and updated for its new eighth edition. Among the many new topical additions are elite child athletics, gambling in college sports, performance enhancement drugs, sport and nationalism after 9/11, the Beijing Olympics, Nike and other corporations, the power of media in sport, and more on minorities and on disabilities in sport. |
Contents
The Discipline of Sociology | 3 |
Sport as a Microcosm of Society | 14 |
Social and Cultural Sources | 21 |
Copyright | |
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