Sport in Contemporary Society, 9th Edition

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Sports buffs know all about famous players and coaches and can recite statistics in endless detail. But do fans know how sport is linked to other institutions of society? Do they understand the role of sport in socializing youngsters in both positive and negative ways? What about the ways in which sport perpetuates race and gender-role stereotypes in society? How do owners, coaches, and other sport authorities exercise power to maintain control over athletes?

These issues and more are examined in this selection of accessible writings by journalists and leading scholars who represent a new era of critical appraisal of sports—both professional and amateur. This timely new edition includes 20 new chapters while retaining the classics from the last edition. Sport in Contemporary Society is perfect for courses in sociology, sport management, and kinesiology.


Chapters new to the 9th Edition:

The Great Recession and Sport
D. Stanley Eitzen

Gender in Televised Sports
Michael A. Messner and Cheryl Cooky

Redskins: Is No Honor, It’s an Insult
Bill Plaschke

Bench the Parents
Buzz Bissinger

Harm to Children in Youth Sports
Mark Hyman

Missed Opportunities: Boston’s Student-Athletes Face a Sports Program in Distress
Bob Hohler

Creating the Frankenstein Athlete: The Drug Culture in Sports
Fran Zimmiuch

College Sports 101: A Primer on Money, Athletics, and Higher Education in the 21st
Century Sport
The Knight Commission Intercollegiate Athletics

Admissions Exemptions Benefit Athletes
Alan Scher Zagier

Is Sports in Your Mission Statement?
Charles T. Clotfeltor

Does Football Cost Too Much?
Sally Jenkins

When Domes Attack
Dave Zirin

Corporate Titans Competing for Olympic Gold
Geoff Dembicki

The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Football League
Richard Lapchick with Jamile M. Kitnurse and Austin Moss II

Racism, Ethnic Discrimination and Exclusion of Migrants and Minorities in Sport
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Are We There Yet? Thirty-Seven Years Later, Title IX Hasn’t Fixed It All
R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter

Her Life Depends On It: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well Being of
American Women and Girls
Women’s Sports Foundation

Equal Opportunity for Transgender Student Athletes
Pat Griffin and Helen J. Carroll

Nike’s Crimes
David Macaray

New Media and Global Sports
George H. Sage

*Can be packaged at significant student discount with Sage & Eitzen’s new edition of Sociology of North American Sport and Sage’s Globalization and Sport.*