The War on Drugs in Sport: Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy

ISBN-13: 9781138812017 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str.

Vanessa McDermott

Opis

This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate. Drawing on Max Weber's work on moral authority and legitimacy, McDermott argues that doping scandals create a crisis of legitimacy for sport governing bodies and other elite groups. This crisis leads to a moral panic, where the issue at stake for elite groups is perceptions of their organizational legitimacy. The book highlights the role of the media as a site where claims to legitimacy are made, and contested, contributing to the social construction of a moral panic. The book explores the way regulatory responses, in this case anti-doping policies in sport, reflect the interests of elite groups and the impact of those responses on individuals, or "folk devils." The War on Drugs in Sport makes a key contribution to moral panic theory by adapting Goode and Ben-Yehuda's moral panic model to capture the diversity of interests and complex relationships between elite groups. The difference between this book and others in the field is its application of a new theoretical perspective, supported by well-researched empirical evidence.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Locating Legitimacy and Moral Panics  2. Historical Overview: The International Olympic Committee, Legitimacy and Doping  3. The World Anti-Doping Agency: Legitimacy and a Moral Panic  4. The Australian Football League: Legitimating the War on Drugs in Sport  5. Mediating Legitimacy and Moral Panics  6. Legitimacy, Doping and the Grassroots Sporting Community.  Conclusion.  Appendix 6.1: Interview Research Methodology.  Appendix 6.2: Interview Participants: NSOs, Information & Education (n=28).

O autorze

Vanessa McDermott is a Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.