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1 online resource (xiv, 613 pages). A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular cultureIncludes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itselfOffers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution. Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art; Introduction: Anti-sport/Pro-sport; What Is Sport? Some Definitional Observations; Sports Matter: A Companion to Sport; References; Further Reading; Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations; Introduction; Further Reading; 1: Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport; Introduction; Questions (and Unstable Answers); Origins and causes; Diffusion; Reception; Epistemologies (and Floating Truths); Objective knowledge; Contextualized knowledge; Conclusion. AcknowledgmentsReferences; Further Reading; 2: Sport and Globalization; Introduction; The Historical Aspects of Global Sport: Six Phases; Germinal phase (1400-1750s); Incipient phase (1750s-1870s); Take-off phase (1870s-1920s); Struggle-for-hegemony phase (1920s-late 1960s); Uncertainty phase (late 1960s-2000); Millennial phase (from 2001); The Sociocultural Aspects of Global Sport; Universalism, particularism, and relativization; Homogenization and heterogenization; Glocalization; Cosmopolitanism; Political-economic Aspects of Globalization; Nation state and globalization. Sport and the global economic systemThe Emerging Global Civil Society and Sport; Conclusions: Globalization, Sport, and "Active Glocalism"; References; Further Reading; 3: The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future; Introduction: Three Decades in a Complex Life; Complex Prehistory; Television Complex; Complex Today; Conclusion: Future Complex; Acknowledgments; References; Further Reading; 4: Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body; Introduction; Sport, Industrial Capitalism, and Revolution; Sport and Social Class: A Critical Sociology; Structural functionalism. FigurationalismNeo-Marxism; Jockraker activism; The cultural turn; Bourdieu's neo-Weberian approach; Emergent paradigms; Conclusion: Social Class, the Sporting Body, and Neoliberalism; References; Further Reading; 5: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport; Introduction; Liberal Feminism; Radical Feminism; Marxist/Socialist Feminism; Black Feminism; The Impact of Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonialism; New Avenues and New Questions for Sport Feminism: Middle Ground Theorizing and Intersectional Analysis; Conclusion: Revisiting "Old" Questions in the Twenty-First Century; References. Further Reading6: Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk; Introduction; Locating Sport in the Risk Society; Expect the Unexpected: Selling Safety; Anxiety, Assurance, and the Risk-Caution Citizenship Project; High Performance Sport and Health within the Risk Society; Conclusion; References; Further Reading; 7: Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment; Environmental Issues and the Sociology of Sport: The "Early" Years; Sport, Sociology and the Environment: Contemporary Themes; Sport, the Environment, and Neoliberalism; Ecological Modernization and Environmental Sociology. edited by David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington. Edition statement from running title area. Environmental Discourses and Promotional Culture: Examples from the Global Forum for Sports and the Environment. Includes bibliographical references and index. Sports Anthropological aspects Sports Sociological aspects Sports and society Sports Anthropological aspects Sports Sociological aspects GV706.2 306.483 Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 (DLC) 2012048373 (OCoLC)828332578 9781118325261 1118325265 1299701450 9781299701458 501396 MIL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118325261 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118325261 EBLCP 130706 20171106093827.0 ocn851972469 eng