Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw

New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'

Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control

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Produktbeschreibung

This book awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' in the realm of sport and offers a rigorous approach which will appeal to academics and students alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780415288859
• ISBN-10: 0415288851
• Artikelnr.: 21159407

Autorenporträt

Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' 1. Introduction:
Endings or new beginnings? 2. Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives,
deviancy theory and sport 3. Beyond grand narratives: Poststructuralism,
new directions and functionalist legacies Part 2: Re-imagining theory and
'method' 4. Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: A
conceptual 'toolkit' 5. 'Talking Tactics': Representing 'deviance' in sport
Part 3: 'Watching the game': Evoking the new aesthetics of sport and
'deviance' 6. The Premiership: Sporting soap opera and consumptive
'deviance' 7. Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' 8.
'jumpers for goalposts': The community sports agenda and the search for
effective control 9. Conclusion: They call it 'roasting'