The Social Science of Sport
In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed. Not least the many normative ideas of sport as good or as bad are problematized in relation to the academic field. These ideas permeate sport science in ways that are not seen in other academic fields like history, sociology or law. In addition, in what ways does sport science influence social science? Does sport science bring new questions in relation to issues like what makes a society possible or what is a human being? This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Bo Carlsson is Professor in Sport Science, Malm University, Sweden. He has an academic background in the sociology of law, and has worked with sport law in general and more particularly in relation to sport, popular culture, consumption and the legal culture of sport.
Susanna Hedenborg is Professor in Sport Science, Malm University, Sweden. She has an academic background in economic and social history and has worked with sport history, gender studies, children and youth sport within the field of sport science.
Sport in the Global Society Contemporary Perspectives
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.
Titles in the Series
Australian Sport
Antipodean Waves of Change
Edited by Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor
Australias Asian Sporting Context
1920s and 1930s
Edited by Sean Brawley and Nick Guoth
Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
Edited by John J. MacAloon
Critical Support for Sport
Bruce Kidd
Disability in the Global Sport Arena
A Sporting Chance
Edited by Jill M. Clair
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sport and Leisure
Edited by Katherine Dashper and Thomas Fletcher
Documenting the Beijing Olympics
Edited by D. P. Martinez and Kevin Latham
Ethnicity and Race in Association Football
Case Study analyses in Europe, Africa and the USA
Edited by David Hassan
Exploring the cultural, ideological and economic legacies of Euro 2012
Edited by Peter Kennedy and Christos Kassimeris
Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Football in Asia
History, Culture and Business
Edited by Younghan Cho
Football in Southeastern Europe
From Ethnic Homogenization to Reconciliation
Edited by John Hughson and Fiona Skillen
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football
Comparative Responses across Europe
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 19682008
To Remember is to Resist
Edited by Russell Field and Bruce Kidd
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Visualising the Game
Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Ciraj Rassool
Global Sport Business
Community Impacts of Commercial Sport
Edited by Hans Westerbeek
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships
The European Spectacle
Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and Georg Spitaler
Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport
Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan and Barry Judd
Modern Sports in Asia
Cultural Perspectives
Edited by Younghan Cho and Charles Leary
Moral Panic in Physical Education and Coaching
Edited by Heather Piper, Dean Garratt and Bill Taylor
Olympic Reform Ten Years Later
Edited by Heather Dichter and Bruce Kidd
Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport
Walking the Line
Joseph Maguire
Security and Sport Mega Events
A Complex Relation
Edited by Diamantis Mastrogiannakis
Soccer in Brazil
Edited by Martin Curi
Soccer in the Middle East
Edited by Alon Raab and Issam Khalidi
South Africa and the Global Game
Football, Apartheid and Beyond
Edited by Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann
Sport Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Building Global Understanding
Edited by Daryl Adair
Sport and Citizenship
Edited by Matthew Guschwan
Sport and Communities
Edited by David Hassan and Sean Brown
Sport, Culture and Identity in the State of Israel
Edited by Yair Galily and Amir Ben-Porat
Sport in Australian National Identity
Kicking Goals
Tony Ward
Sport in the City
Cultural Connections
Edited by Michael Sam and John E. Hughson
Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan
Remembering the Glory Days
Edited by Andreas Niehaus and Christian Tagsold
Sport, Music, Identities
Edited by Anthony Bateman
Sport, Race and Ethnicity
The Scope of Belonging?
Edited by Katie Liston and Paddy Dolan
The Changing Face of Cricket
From Imperial to Global Game
Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell and Nalin Mehta
The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports
Edited by Belinda Wheaton
The Containment of Soccer in Australia
Fencing Off the World Game
Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan and John E. Hughson
The History of Motor Sport
A Case Study Analysis
Edited by David Hassan
The Making of Sporting Cultures
John E. Hughson
The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking
Edited by Ramn Spaaij and Cindy Burleson
The Olympic Games: Meeting New Challenges
Edited by David Hassan and Shakya Mitra
The Other Sport Mega-Event: Rugby World Cup 2011
Edited by Steven J. Jackson
The Politics of Sport
Community, Mobility, Identity
Edited by Paul Gilchrist and Russell Holden
The Politics of Sport in South Asia
Edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti and Kingshuk Chatterjee
The Social Impact of Sport
Edited by Ramn Spaaij
The Social Science of Sport
A Critical Analysis
Edited by Bo Carlsson and Susanna Hedenborg
Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport
Edited by Jason Mazanov
Twenty20 and the Future of Cricket
Edited by Chris Rumford
Who Owns Football?
The Governance and Management of the Club Game Worldwide
