New perspectives on sport and deviance : consumption, performativity, and social control

The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face...

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Main Authors Blackshaw, Tony, Crabbe, Tim
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published London ; New York Routledge 2004
Subjects
Deviant behavior
Social control
Sports
Sports > Sociological aspects
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ISBN9780415288842
9780415288859
0415288851
0415288843
DOI10.4324/9780203508275

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Summary:The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance'awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.
Bibliography:Includes index
Bibliography: p. [186]-201
ISBN:9780415288842
9780415288859
0415288851
0415288843
DOI:10.4324/9780203508275