Sport: Social Problems and Issues

ISBN-13: 9780750628921 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 176 str.

Frank Kew

Opis

Provides an analysis and critique of contemporary social problems and issues for the coach, organizer, teacher or student of sport. Drawing upon perspectives from social science, this book examines change and development of modern sport, enabling students and practitioners to address those problems and issues which threaten the integrity of sport.

Spis treści

Sport as social practice and social institution - Sport: inside out; Sports: change and development; Sports: in the marketplace; The corruption of sports practice; Sport and structural inequality - Sport, racism and ethnicity; Sport, ability and disability; Sport and gender; Sport and social class.

O autorze

Frank Kew is the course tutor for the B.A. in Leisure, Recreation and Community at Bradford and Ilkley College and has been an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.