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Informationen zum Autor In addition to constantly revising the text, Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies , Jay Coakley has co-edited with Eric Dunning (University of Loughborough, UK), the Handbook of Sports Studies (Sage Publications, 2000), and with Peter Donnelly, Inside Sports (Routledge, 1999). He has authored over 150 articles and book chapters, primarily on sport, society, and culture. He has lectured worldwide at universities and conferences for professional associations and sports organizations. He was the founding editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal (1983-1989) and serves on the editorial boards of scholarly journals in sociology and kinesiology/physical education. He is past president of the Sport Sociology Academy of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, and of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport; he continues to serve on national and international committees and is currently doing research with colleagues in Slovenia and Brazil, and is working with the newly formed Latin American Association for the Sociocultural Study of Sports. In 2004 Coakley received a service award from the Citizenship Through Sports Alliance; in 2007 he was named one of the “100 Most Influential Sports Educators by the Institute for International Sport and was awarded an honorary fellowship at the University of Chichester (UK). In 2009 Coakley was named to the Hall of Fame of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. He received his M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees from the University of Notre Dame and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado. Klappentext `It is not only about sport, but the contexts [and] cultures that encircle it. The authors[...] review every known theory, topic and problem relevant to the scholarly analysis of sport.... a champion without challengers' - Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire University, and author of Making Sense of Sports Zusammenfassung `It is not only about sport, but the contexts [and] cultures that encircle it. The authors[...] review every known theory, topic and problem relevant to the scholarly analysis of sport.... a champion without challengers' - Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire University, and author of Making Sense of Sports Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: MAJOR PERSPECTIVES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT PART ONE: MAJOR PERSPECTIVES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT Editors¿ Introduction Functionalism, Sport and Society - John W Loy and Douglas Booth Marxist Theories - Bero Rigauer Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Sport - Jenny Hargreaves and Ian McDonald Feminist Theories for Sport - Susan Birrell Interpretive Approaches to the Sociology of Sport - Peter Donnelly Figurational Sociology and Its Application to Sport - Patrick Murphy, Ken Sheard and Ivan Waddington Posting Up - David L Andrews French Post-Structuralism and the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Sporting Culture PART TWO: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DIFFERENCES AND CONNECTIONS Editors¿ Introduction The Anthropology of Sport - Kendall Blanchard Economics and Sport - Marc Lavoie Human Geography and the Study of Sports - John Bale Social History and Sport - Nancy L Struna The Philosophy of Sport - William J Morgan A Historical and Conceptual Overview and a Conjecture Regarding Its Future Politics and Sport - Barrie Houlihan Psychology and the Study of Sport - Diane L Gill PART THREE: KEY TOPICS Editors¿ Introduction The Development of Modern Sports - Allen Guttmann Political Economy and Sport - George Sage Education and Sport - C Roger Rees and Andrew W Miracle Sport and the Media - Garry Whannel Theorizing Sport, Social Class and Status - John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson Gender and Sport - Nancy Theberge Sport, Racism and Ethnicity - Grant Jarvie Sport and Nationalism - Lincoln Alli...
