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Sport is not necessarily a pastime or pure recreation. It is an integral part of contemporary culture with connections with industry, commerce and politics. This new expanded edition of Making Sense of Sports includes all you need to know on the history and theories of sports and on more controversial issues. How black sports performers are made Why women are devalued by sports Drug use and attempts to contain it Commercialism and sports Why sports and television are inseparable Violence and the legal battleground Making Sense of Sports is a comprehensive introduction to the study of sports which combines perspectives from the spectrum of natural and social sciences to produce a scholarly yet provocative analysis of one of the most important elements of today's culture.
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Ellis Cashmore is Professor of Media and Sport at the School of Health, University of Staffordshire, UK.
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'Provides a thorough overview of issues that pervade the growing field of sports sociology ... it is a text that is to be strongly recommended.' - Sociology
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'Ellis Cashmore's text is a clear and eloquent outline of many of the important areas in the broad field of sports sociology ... an original, interesting and timely interpretation of a fast-moving field of academic study.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0415133076
- ISBN 13 9780415133074
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages296
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