Social Science of Sport - A Critical Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Bo Carlsson! Professor in Sport Science! Malmö University. Carlsson has an academic background in sociology of law! and has worked with sport law in general and more particular in relation to sport! popular culture! consumption and the legal culture of sport.Susanna Hedenborg! Professor in Sport Science! Malmö University. Hedenborg has an academic background in Economic and social history and has worked with sport history! gender studies! children and youth sport within the field of sport science. Zusammenfassung Sport science is an interdisciplinary field. In this book, sport science as an academic field within social sciences and the humanities is discussed and problematized. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The position and relevance of sport studies: an introduction 2. Thoughts on being the gadfly in the sport sciences ointment: building the road to meta-theoretical research creation 3. (Re)Occupying a cultural commons: reclaiming the labour process in critical sports studies 4. Slowing the social sciences of sport: on the possibilities of physical culture 5. From criminality to creativity: how studies of surfer subcultures reinvented invention 6. Modern sport between purity and hybridity 7. Re(con)fusion of law and sport in light of ‘seriousness’ and ‘trivialization’

Product details

• Authors: Bo Hedenborg Carlsson
• Assisted by: Bo Carlsson (Editor), Susanna Hedenborg (Editor), Hedenborg Susanna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138082915
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08291-5
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural anthropology, Sport science, physical education, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects