New Perspectives on Sport and ''Deviance'' - Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control

Informationen zum Autor Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw Klappentext This book awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' in the realm of sport and offers a rigorous approach which will appeal to academics and students alike. Zusammenfassung This book awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' in the realm of sport and offers a rigorous approach which will appeal to academics and students alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' 1. Introduction: Endings or new beginnings? 2. Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives, deviancy theory and sport 3. Beyond grand narratives: Poststructuralism, new directions and functionalist legacies Part 2: Re-imagining theory and 'method' 4. Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: A conceptual 'toolkit' 5. 'Talking Tactics': Representing 'deviance' in sport Part 3: 'Watching the game': Evoking the new aesthetics of sport and 'deviance' 6. The Premiership: Sporting soap opera and consumptive 'deviance' 7. Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' 8. 'jumpers for goalposts': The community sports agenda and the search for effective control 9. Conclusion: They call it 'roasting'

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tony Blackshaw, Blackshaw Tony, Tim Crabbe, Tim (Sheffield Hallam University Crabbe, Tim Blackshaw Crabbe, Crabbe Tim
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 23.09.2004
• EAN: 9780415288859
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28885-9
• Pages: 224
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Livres de conseils > Sport > Sport automobile, motocyclisme, cyclisme, aviation; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychologie théorique; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general