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The sixth edition of Fair and Foul features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction, and a chapter on big-time college sport. The book explores our love of sport as well as its darker side, with new material throughout on topics such as injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia, and more.
List of contents
1.The Duality of Sport
2.Sport Unites, Sport Divides
3.Names, Logos, Mascots, and Flags: The Contradictory Uses of Sports Symbols
4.Sport Is Fair, Sport Is Foul
5.Sport Is Healthy, Sport Is Destructive
6.The Organization of Youth Sport: Issues and Consequences
7.Sport Is Expressive, Sport Is Controlled
8.Are Sports Played on a Level Playing Field? Issues of Race, Class, and Gender
9.The Mass Media and Sport: Distorted Windows, Blinders, and Game Changers
10.Big-Time College Sports: Commercialized Sport within Academia
11.Sport as the Path to Success? Myth and Reality
12.Professional Sports Franchises: Public Teams, Private Businesses
13.The Globalization of Sport
14.The Challenge: Changing Sport
Notes
Index
About the author
D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, most recently as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-four books, including three on sport, as well as numerous scholarly articles and chapters in scholarly books. He is a former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the recipient of that organization's Distinguished Service Award. Among his other awards, he was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport.
Summary
The sixth edition of Fair and Foul features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction, and a chapter on big-time college sport. The book explores our love of sport as well as its darker side, with new material throughout on topics such as injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia, and more.
