Sport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport

This set examines sport and leisure from a social science viewpoint. The volumes included, originally published between 1984 and 1991 take a cross-disciplinary

When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the l

This volume examines modern sport in its social context and concludes that it is beset with over-commercialised motives, damaged by dangerous political alignmen

This volume traces the rise and transformation of organized sport and its impact on social patterns and gender roles. Stressing the essential continuity of the