Sociological Perspectives on Sport
Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games seeks not only to inform students about the sports world but also to offer them analytical skills and the application of theoretical perspectives that deepen their awareness and understanding of social processes linking sports to the larger social world. With six original framing essays linking sport to a variety of topics, including race, class, gender, media, politics, deviance, and globalization, and 37 reprinted articles, this text/reader sets a new standard for excellence in teaching sports and society.
David Karen is Professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College. In addition to his interest in sports, he also studies social inequality, the sociology of education, and social movements. He has been elected to four consecutive terms as a School Director in Upper Merion Area School District.
Robert E. Washington is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College. His areas of scholarly interest are sociology of sports, race relations, social deviance, and the sociology of culture. With David Karen, he co-edited The Sport and Society Reader (Routledge) and Sport, Power, and Society (Westview).
Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
Edited by Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota and Jodi OBrien, Seattle University
This innovative series is for all readers interested in books that provide frameworks for making sense of the complexities of contemporary social life. Each of the books in this series uses a sociological lens to provide current critical and analytical perspectives on significant social issues, patterns, and trends. The series consists of books that integrate the best ideas in sociological thought with an aim toward public education and engagement. These books are designed for use in the classroom as well as for scholars and socially curious general readers.
Published:
Political Justice and Religious Values by Charles F. Andrain
GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences by Robert Nash Parker and Emily K. Asencio
Hoop Dreams on Wheels: Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete by Ronald J. Berger
The Internet and Social Inequalities by James C. Witte and Susan E. Mannon
Media and Middle Class Mom: Images and Realities of Work and Family by Lara Descartes and Conrad Kottak
Watching T.V. Is Not Required: Thinking about Media and Thinking about Thinking by Bernard McGrane and John Gunderson
Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations by Douglas Brownridge
State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland by Barbara G. Brents, Crystal A. Jackson and Kate Hausbeck
Sociologists Backstage: Answers to 10 Questions about What They Do by Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones
Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective by Ronald Berger
Stargazing: Celebrity, Fame, and Social Interaction by Kerry Ferris and Scott Harris
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture by Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul and Simon Gottschalk
Surviving Dictatorship by Jacqueline Adams
The Womanist Idea by Layli Maparyan
Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives by Wesley Longhofer and Daniel Winchester
Religion in Todays World: Global Issues, Sociological Perspectives by Melissa Wilcox
Understanding Deviance: Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives edited by Tammy L. Anderson
Social Statistics: Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results, Second Edition by Thomas J. Linneman
Transforming Scholarship: Why Womens and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World, Second Edition by Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment, Second Edition by Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Life and Death Decisions: The Quest for Morality and Justice in Human Societies, Second Edition by Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, Second Edition by Eve Shapiro
Migration, Incorporation, and Change in an Interconnected World by Syed Ali and Douglas Hartmann
Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games by David Karen and Robert E. Washington
Forthcoming:
Social Worlds of Imagination by Chandra Mukerji
All Media are Social by Andrew Lindner
First published 2015
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
and by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2015 Taylor & Francis
The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A catalog record for this book has been requested
ISBN: 978-0-415-71839-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-71841-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-87085-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Utopia and Trade Gothic
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK
