Sportsmanship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Sportsmanship is a broad concept: ethics, fairness, honor and self-control. Some people find it difficult to define what makes a "good sport," but state "I know one when I see one." This collection of new essays brings together the work of more than two dozen contributors from around the world who teach sportsmanship in a range of academic disciplines including sociology, psychology, economics, education, kinesiology and applied athletics. Topics include the moral ambiguities of cheating; recreation in prison; ethics and character formation; coaching perspectives; gender; race; and the portrayal of sportsmanship in film.

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Tim Delaney is a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego. He regularly publishes in such areas, and teaches such sociology courses as, social theory, environmental sociology, social deviance and the sociology of sport.