Beschreibung:
This new edition examines how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play. By introducing students to a research-led perspective on sport, it highlights the operation of power, patriarchy and pain that a hyper-competitive sporting culture promotes.
Introduction 1. Why We Value Organized, Competitive Sport 2. Sport's Use in Teaching Obedience to Authority and Complicity to Abuse 3. Learning to Accept, Inflict, and Enjoy Violence and Injury 4. Head Games: Brain Injuries and Youth Sport 5. The Governance of Youth Sport: Rights, Representation and Consent 6. Sport's Use in the Maintenance of Class 7. Sport's Use in Stratifying Men 8. Sport's Use in Marginalizing Women 9. Sport's Use in Subordinating Racial Minorities 10. Sport's Use in Excluding, Reproducing Stereotypes, and Othering 11. Changing Sport