Offside by Andrei S Markovits
Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? This book takes the reader on a tour of America's sports culture, connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms.-
Privilege
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Billionaire Wilderness
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Interaction Ritual Chains
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On Justification
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Impossible Engineering
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Talking Prices
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Revolution of Things
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The Death and Life of Gentrification
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Marketing Radicalism
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Data-Driven Hollywood
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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
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The Minds of Marginalized Black Men
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How Civic Action Works
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Disrupting Science
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Partisan Publics
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There Goes the Gayborhood?
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Reds, Whites, and Blues
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Seeing the World
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Reinventing Justice
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The Battle for Yellowstone
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Gifted Tongues
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Community
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Inside the Critics' Circle
"Warmly recommended to all those who want to understand and appreciate.. popular culture in the United States."--Roman Horak, Der Standard (Vienna) "The text is well referenced, historically grounded, and offers excellent insight into US soccer and its past, present, and future potential as a major sport. Highly recommended for both the general population and those interested in sports studies and sociology of sport."--Choice "This is the first adequate sociocultural history of the sport in the United States... Sports sociologists will look to this book for soccer material and also for the author's fresh conceptualization of sports culture. Sociologists with more general interests in culture and institutional analysis might also find it useful and informative as a case study."--John Wilson, American Journal of Sociology
Andrei S. Markovits is Professor of Politics in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. Steven L. Hellerman is a sports journalist and a doctoral candidate at Claremont University's School of Politics and Economics.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780691074474 |
| ISBN 10 | 069107447X |
| Title | Offside |
| Author | Andrei S Markovits |
| Series | Princeton Studies In Cultural Sociology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2001-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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