New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'
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New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance' by Tim Crabbe
The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.
Tony Blackshaw is Reader at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has taught and published widely on Bauman. His books include Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003), Zygmunt Bauman (Routledge, 2005), Key Concepts in Community Studies (2010) and Leisure (2010).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9780415288859 |
| Title | New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance' |
| Release date | 2004-09-23 |
| Studio | Routledge |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Tim Crabbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) |
| By (author) | Tony Blackshaw |