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Sport Matters

Author : Kenneth L. Shropshire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1613630506
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Sport Matters written by Kenneth L. Shropshire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Sterling. Ray Rice. The Washington Redskins. The Miami Dolphins. NCAA Athletes. These names, among countless others, have blanketed the headlines as the media has brought global attention to several recent sports controversies. Now, Kenneth L. Shropshire, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, uses these stories as a prism for exploring the leadership challenges facing team owners, management, players, and fans. In Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports, Shropshire examines the need for diversity, inclusion, respect, and equality in sports, focusing on the need for leadership to embrace and deliver these principles in a real and tangible way within the sports industry. He also introduces the Sports Power Matrix, a framework for understanding power within the sports industry. Sport Matters addresses what the Donald Sterling drama can teach us about race and the need for inclusion at the ownership level; the lessons learned from the NFL and Ray Rice case; the Washington Redskins name and the economics of change; what the Miami Dolphins matter tells us about respect in the workplace and beyond; and compensation and equality in "amateur" sports. Sport Matters, filled with disturbing revelations and uncomfortable truths, also provides hope, revealing how obstacles to achieving an ideal culture of equality and respect within the sports industry can be removed. Shropshire argues that while change matters, continued emphasis on diversity, inclusion and respect is needed to create true progress.

Sports Matters

Author : John Bloom
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798810
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Sports Matters written by John Bloom and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of the contributions strongly project the authors' perceptions of the role of race on their subjects, and essays should elicit lively discussions in the classroom." —CHOICE Frederick Douglass liked to say of West Indian boxer Peter Jackson that "Peter is doing a great deal with his fists to solve the Negro question." His comment reflects the possibilities for social transformation that he saw in the emerging modern sports culture. Indeed, as the twentieth century developed, sports have become an important cultural terrain over which various racial groups have contested, defined, and represented their racial, national, and inter-ethnic identities. Sports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half. The contributors collected here address such issues as popular representations of blacks in sports. They consider baseball—from Nisei players in Oregon to Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles. And they look at the use of warrior imagery in representations of Native American athletes and the evolution of black expressive style within basketball. Sports Matters challenges our presumptions about sports, illuminating in the process the complexities of race and gender as they relate to popular culture. Contributors include Amy Bass, John Bloom, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Gena Caponi, Montye Fuse, Randy Hanson, Michiko Hase, George Lipsitz, Keith Miller, Sharon O'Brien, Connie Razza, Sam Regalado, Greg Rodriguez, Julio Rodriguez, Michael Willard, and Henry Yu.

Good Sport

Author : Thomas H. Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190687983
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Good Sport written by Thomas H. Murray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative exploration of what draws us to sport as participants and spectators, Tom Murray argues that the values and meanings embedded within our games provide the guidance we need to make difficult decisions about fairness and performance-enhancing technologies. Simply saying that using performance-enhancing drugs is against the rules begs essential questions. The people who play and govern sport create the rules; rules can be changed. Technologies such as fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates enhance athletes' performance, not just drugs. Why are some technologies accepted in sport while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Would athletes' health be protected better if at least some performance-enhancing drugs were permitted under doctors' supervision? 'Good Sport' reveals what we really value in sport and how the reckless use of biomedical enhancements undermines those values.

Sport Matters

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134870140
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Sport Matters written by Eric Dunning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.

Mind Matters

Author : Daniel S. Kirschenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884125294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Mind Matters written by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matters of Sport

Author : Dominic Malcolm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136981969
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Matters of Sport written by Dominic Malcolm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matters of Sport is a tribute to Eric Dunning, the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world. This book addresses Dunning's contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport, covering key topics such as hooliganism, celebrity and gender relations. A broad range of leading academics from Europe and North America reflect on the ways in which Dunning's work has influenced their own research and understanding of sport. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Sport in Society.

The Miseducation of the Student Athlete

Author : Kenneth L. Shropshire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1613631383
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The Miseducation of the Student Athlete written by Kenneth L. Shropshire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports, Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams, Jr., introduce The Student-Athlete Manifesto, a roadmap to increase the likelihood that student-athletes can succeed both on and off the field. They also offer a Meaningful Degree Model, which ensures education pays for everyone.

Paradoxes of Youth and Sport

Author : Margaret Gatz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488896
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes of Youth and Sport written by Margaret Gatz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists from diverse fields examine how sport can address social ills and act as a resource in the lives of disadvantaged youth versus how sport itself harbors and fosters social problems and is dominated by unequal access, the obsession to win, and commercialization. This book places sport at the crossroads of inquiry and practice regarding critical issues of our time, including youth development; violence; racial, gender, and class inequities; and inter-group relations.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm

Author : Stephen Wagg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030728269
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm written by Stephen Wagg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and controversies that have arisen as a result. Written by experts in history, sociology, sport journalism and public health, the book considers sport and injury in relation to matters of social class; gender; ethnicity and race; sexuality; political ideology and national identity; health and wellbeing; childhood; animal rights; and popular culture. These matters are, in turn, variously related to a range of sports, including ancient, pre- and early industrial sports; American football; boxing; wrestling and other combat sports; mountaineering; horseracing; cycling; motor racing; rugby football; cricket; association football; baseball; basketball; Crossfit; ice hockey; Olympic sports; Mixed Martial Arts; and sport in an imagined dystopian future.

Sport Matters

Author : Simon Thorp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872365947
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Sport Matters written by Simon Thorp and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethics and Morality in Sport Management

Author : Joy Theresa DeSensi
Publisher : Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 9781935412137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Morality in Sport Management written by Joy Theresa DeSensi and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition continues to examine the ethical concepts, principles and issues in the administration and organisation of sport that made the first two editions of this textbook so widely adopted. The book approaches the topics from four directions: ethical theory, personal and professional ethics, ethics applied, and future moral and ethical issues. Joy T DeSensi and Danny Rosenberg have enhanced the text by adding two new chapters that help to frame the content in a globalised context. In addition, the references, examples, scenarios, and analyses have been updated throughout the book.

Sport

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415262965
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Sport written by Eric Dunning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of texts providing a useful resource for students in the field of sports studies. Subject headings include approaches to the study of sport, the development and structure of modern sport, sport and power relations, and major issues in contemporary sport.

Sport

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638486
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Sport written by Eric Dunning and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1972-12-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics. The sports treated include football, soccer, rugby, wrestling, baseball, and bull-fighting, and some historical background is given on the development of sport. In the introduction to each section, the editor explains the questions that the selections are intended to illustrate, and treats briefly such matters as theories of sport and play, the social factors in their development, sport and socialization, class and race in sport, sport as an occupation and an industry, and conflict and social control in sport. This reader will be of interest to those professionally concerned, either as teacher or student, with sociology and physical education, but it should also appeal to athletes, sports-lovers, and sports commentators who like to keep their thinking in good shape too.

Take Back the Game

Author : Linda Flanagan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059332904X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Take Back the Game written by Linda Flanagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards 2022 A close look at how big money and high stakes have transformed youth sports, turning once healthy, fun activities for kids into all-consuming endeavors—putting stress on children and families alike Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life. But youth sports have changed so dramatically over the last 25 years that they no longer deliver the healthy outcomes everyone wants. Instead, unbeknownst to most parents, kids who play competitive organized sports are more likely to burn out or suffer from overuse injuries than to develop their characters or build healthy habits. What happened to kids' sports? And how can we make them fun again? In Take Back the Game, coach and journalist Linda Flanagan reveals how the youth sports industry capitalizes on parents’ worry about their kids’ futures, selling the idea that more competitive play is essential in the feeding frenzy over access to colleges and universities. Drawing on her experience as a coach and a parent, along with research and expert analysis, Flanagan delves into a national obsession that has: Compelled kids to specialize year-round in one sport. Increased the risk of both physical injury and mental health problems. Encouraged egregious behavior by coaches and parents. Reduced access to sports for low-income families. A provocative and timely entrant into a conversation thousands of parents are having on the sidelines, Take Back the Game uncovers how youth sports became a serious business, the consequences of raising the stakes for kids and parents alike--and the changes we need now.

Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity

Author : Robert Pitter
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1718203985
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity written by Robert Pitter and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text surpasses the scope of sociological texts that focus solely on sports, covering a broad range of physical activities such as fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others. The authors emphasize the promotion of healthy individuals and a healthy body in the many movement settings where the body is active. Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores contemporary topics such as reducing disparities in education and income, increasing socioeconomic diversity in communities, the medicalization of fitness, the rise of cosmetic fitness, the promotion of physical activity as a requirement for health, and the globalization of the fitness industry. The text includes the following features to enhance student engagement: Chapter objectives help students achieve their learning goals Key points and terms to highlight important information throughout the text Active Bodies sidebars that offer context for concepts presented in the chapter and provide examples and applications Discussion questions that provide opportunities to reflect on chapter topics Part I of Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity examines political, educational, media, and economic institutions that influence the relationship between society and physical activity. Part II explores how an individual’s race, gender, social class, and ability are interpreted through a social lens. Part III of the text discusses the process of developing healthy populations as well as promoting public health and body positivity. Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity offers a cross-cultural perspective of society, health, and the body in motion. Readers will finish the text with a greater understanding of social theory applications in physical culture.

Sport Matters

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134870132
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Sport Matters written by Eric Dunning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.

Managing Sport Mega-Events

Author : Stephen Frawley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633792
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Managing Sport Mega-Events written by Stephen Frawley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Sport Mega-Events explores global developments in the management of sport mega-events. Sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup have been examined from a number of academic perspectives including history, sociology, politics, urban planning and economics. What is lacking, however, is a book which identifies and evaluates the current issues and complexities faced by those charged with the responsibility of managing these sport mega-events. This book fills the gap. The book addresses three broad but interconnected themes. First, strategic matters are explored focusing on the rise of sport mega-events, the management of stakeholders and governance issues. Second, how organisers can best ensure the sustainable management of sport mega-events is considered. Third, operational matters and related issues are examined including media management, broadcast management, venue management, risk management, marketing and sponsorship management. The book draws on leading international sport management scholars, each of whom has expertise in the organisation of sport mega-events. It makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature.