Sports, Virtues and Vices

Morality Plays

By Mike McNamee

Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and...

Published May 9th 2008 by Routledge.

Matters of Sport

Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning

Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington

Matters of Sport is a tribute to Eric Dunning, the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world. This book addresses Dunning's contributions to the sociological and historical...

Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.

The Sport Studies Reader

Edited by Alan Tomlinson

"This anthology provides breadth, depth, and continuity in a thoughtfully presented selection of classic, current, and provocative readings. For instructors it is the "course pack"...

Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge.

Edited by Boria Majumdar, Fan HongJ A. ManganBoria Majumdar

Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game- it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up in...

Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge.

Sport Histories

Figurational Studies of the Development of Modern Sports

Edited by Eric Dunning, Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington

Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book brings together ten case studies...

Published July 11th 2006 by Routledge.

The Work of Professional Football

A Labour of Love?

By Martin Roderick

A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of...

Published May 18th 2006 by Routledge.

German Football

History, Culture, Society

Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young

This topical book provides unprecedented analysis of football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany.

The expert team of German and British contributors offers wide-ranging perspectives on the significance of football in German...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

Japan, Sport and Society

Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World

Edited by Joseph Maguire, Masayoshi NakayamaJ A. ManganBoria Majumdar

Evolving for centuries in relative isolation, sport in Japan developed a unique character reflective of Japanese culture and society. In recent decades, Japan's drive towards...

Published December 15th 2005 by Routledge.

Drugs in Sport

Edited by David R. Mottram

With the recent major updates in worldwide anti-doping laws and changes to the prohibited and therapeutic exemption lists, this fourth edition of the bestselling Drugs...

Published October 5th 2005 by Routledge.

Making Sense of Sports

By Ellis Cashmore

Ellis Cashmore's unique, multidisciplinary introduction to sport studies is completely revised, updated and enhanced to reflect the changing character of contemporary sport. Among the questions...

Published June 23rd 2005 by Routledge.