Learning Culture Through Sports

In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a particular issue in sport: youth and sport; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; sport, media, and big business; and international perspectives on sport and participation. Leading experts in the field present new and exciting avenues for exploring sport in our world, allowing us to recognize its tremendous influence, both positive and negative, in our lives and in our world. This new edition also includes cutting-edge research examining contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport today. These issues, analyzed from multiple perspectives, will inspire readers to change the game in positive ways.

Cheryl Cooky is a professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She is the co-author of Serving Equality: Feminism, Media and Women's Sports (2022) and No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (2018). She is a past-President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal.

Jackson Katz is an educator, speaker and scholar-activist who is internationally renowned for his groundbreaking work on issues of gender, race and violence. He is the author of The Macho Paradox and co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), which was the first large-scale prevention initiative in both college and professional sports in North America, as well as in all branches of the US military. His viral TEDx Talk, “Violence Against Women – It's a Men's Issue,” has been viewed over 5.5 million times.

Richard E. Lapchick was selected as one of the "100 Most powerful people in sport" by The Sporting News. Lapchick brought his experience as a civil rights activist, scholar, and author to Northeastern University where he founded and has directed the Center for the Study of Sport in Society since 1984. He has written nine books and is a regular columnist for The Sporting News. Lapchick serves as an advisor to the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Commission on Fairness in Sport and to the players assocations of the NBA and NFL on the issue of racial hiring practices in sport.