Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport

by Yiannakis, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780736037105
• ISBN10: 0736037101
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-19
• Publisher: HUMAN KINETICS PUBLISHERS
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Summary

In today's world, people's perceptions of various individuals, countries, races, genders, schools, and even companies are often affected by the sports they watch, read about, or listen to. The impact of sport on these perceptions is covered extensively in >Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport.> This text provides some of the best contemporary writing and research on the sociology of sport.The text is organized into 12 learning units and includes 34 articles from writers and researchers with varied backgrounds. Introductions are provided for each of the units. They include brief summaries of the articles that follow and probing study questions that challenge the reader to think critically about the material.Edited by Andrew Yiannakis, PhD, and Merrill J. Melnick, PhD, >Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport> includes--an exploration of topics and themes that have received limited attention in other sociology of sport texts but have been long-standing social concerns,-a review of the attitudes toward female athletes and the anti-homosexual phobias present in sport,-an in-depth look at the impoverishment of children's games in America,-an overview of high school sport participation,-a study of the challenges and benefits of the big-time collegiate sport experience,-a critique of television's impact on sport and its portrayal of gender and race, and-a review of sport and globalization.Unit Iprovides the reader with a historical background on the development of sociology of sport and addresses several critical issues about the relationship between sociology, physical education, and sociology of sport. The text includes an explanation of the growth of the sociology of sport field since 1980, the emergence and growth of the New Physical Education, and a review of the emerging field of sport pedagogy.Unit IIillustrates the power and influence of sport on American values, attitudes, behaviors, and cultural practices and its manifestations in our interpersonal and gender relations.Unit IIIexamines whether adult-controlled sport programs are good for children. The authors explore the Little League phenomenon, which they contrast and compare with the spontaneous culture of free play.Unit IVexamines the positive and negative effects of high school sport participation, in relationship to other extracurricular activities, on the educational and developmental experiences of student-athletes.Unit Vexplores the realities, demands, and opportunities created by commercialized, high-visibility collegiate sports and their effects on athletes and universities.Unit VIillustrates and examines how race-related discriminatory practices continue to manifest themselves in the world of sport. Specific topics include the allocation of playing positions by race, the use of racially insensitive team names, and racial stratification in professional sport.Unit VIIfocuses on the social construction of feminine, masculine, and heterosexualized bodies within exercise and sport-related contexts.Unit VIIIexplores the ways sport produces and reproduces the gender order while serving as "contested terrain" with respect to the construction of feminine and masculine gender scripts.Unit IXexplores the mass media's coverage of selected athletes and their sports, and how heavily mediated representations influence perceptions of race, class, gender, and sexuality.Unit Xexamines the underlying causes of deviance in sport and focuses on such activities as larceny, drug use, and aggression outside of sport.Unit XIexplores the role and structure of alternative sport communities, especially in creating and maintaining personal identity, in satisfying psychological needs, and in providing contexts for resistance to dominant sport ideologies.Unit XIIreviews the influence of Americanization and globalization processes on local sport cultures and practices.>Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport> is a must-read f

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Credits	vii
UNIT I EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT	1	(18)
Physical Education, Sociology, and Sociology of Sport: Points of Intersection	3	(16)
George H. Sage
UNIT II SPORT, POWER, AND IDEOLOGY	19	(40)
The Great American Football Ritual: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Inequality	23	(18)
Douglas E. Foley
Sports Ideology, Attitudes Toward Women, and Antihomosexual Attitudes	41	(6)
Joseph Harry
Disqualifying the Official: An Exploration of Social Resistance Through the Subculture of Skateboarding	47	(12)
Becky Beal
UNIT III CHILDREN IN SPORT	59	(32)
Backyard Versus Little League Baseball: Some Observations on the Impoverishment of Children's Games in Contemporary America	63	(10)
Edward C. Devereux
Learning Life's Lessons in Tee Ball: The Reinforcement of Gender and Status in Kindergarten Sport	73	(6)
Melissa A. Landers
Gary Alan Fine
Action Research in Youth Soccer: Assessing the Acceptability of an Alternative Program	79	(12)
B. Christine Green
UNIT IV IMPACTS OF HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS PARTICIPATION	91	(52)
Participation in High School Competitive Sports: A Subversion of School Mission or Contribution to Academic Goals?	95	(14)
Naomi Fejgin
Athletic Participation and Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Different Worlds of Boys and Girls	109	(16)
Kathleen E. Miller
Donald F. Sabo
Michael P. Farrell
Grace M. Barnes
Merrill J. Melnick
Student Council, Volunteering, Basketball, or Marching Band: What Kind of Extracurricular Involvement Matters?	125	(18)
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Bonnie L. Barber
UNIT V BIG-TIME SPORTS AND THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE	143	(40)
College Sports Inc.: The Athletic Department vs. the University	147	(12)
Murray Sperber
Sport Participation and Women's Personal Empowerment: Experiences of the College Athlete	159	(10)
Elaine M. Blinde
Diane E. Taub
Lingling Han
The College Life Experiences of African American Women Athletes	169	(14)
Robert M. Sellers
Gabriel P. Kuperminc
Alphonse Damas Jr
UNIT VI RACE, ETHNICITY, AND SPORT	183	(36)
The Stacking of Latinos in Major League Baseball: A Forgotten Minority?	187	(16)
G. Leticia Gonzalez
Hail to the Redskins? Public Reactions to a Racially Insensitive Team Name	203	(8)
Lee Sigelman
Blacks As Key Functionaries: A Study of Racial Stratification in Professional Sport	211	(8)
Arthur S. Evans Jr
UNIT VII THE BODY IN CULTURE AND SPORT	219	(52)
Machines, Missiles, and Men: Images of the Male Body on ABC's Monday Night Football	223	(14)
Nick Trujillo
Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin: The Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies	237	(22)
Pirkko Markula
The Politics of the Body and the Body Politic: Magic Johnson and the Ideology of AIDS	259	(12)
Samantha King
UNIT VIII GENDER AND SPORT: CONSTRUCTIONS OF FEMININITY AND MASCULINITY	271	(48)
Snowboarding: The Construction of Gender in an Emerging Sport	275	(16)
Kristin L. Anderson
Tender Machos: Masculine Contrasts in the Mexican Baseball League	291	(14)
Alan M. Klein
``It's Part of the Game'': Physicality and the Production of Gender in Women's Hockey	305	(14)
Nancy Theberge
UNIT IX SPORT AND THE MEDIATED IMAGE	319	(38)
The Gender of Audience Building: Televised Coverage of Women's and Men's NCAA Basketball	323	(12)
Michael A. Messner
Margaret Carlisle Duncan
Faye Linda Wachs
Speed, Aggression, Strength, and Tactical Naivete: The Portrayal of the Black Soccer Player on Television	335	(10)
David McCarthy
Robyn L. Jones
Reading Nancy Lopez: Decoding Representations of Race, Class, and Sexuality	345	(12)
Katherine M. Jamieson
UNIT X SPORT AND DEVIANCE: THE DARKER SIDE OF SPORTSWORLD	357	(38)
Positive Deviance Among Athletes: The Implications of Overconformity to the Sport Ethic	361	(14)
Robert Hughes
Jay Coakley
Interpretations and Explanations of Deviance Among College Athletes: A Case Study	375	(12)
Eldon E. Snyder
Gender, Sport, and Aggressive Behavior Outside Sport	387	(8)
Howard L. Nixon II
UNIT XI SPORT SUBCULTURES: ALTERNATE SPORT COMMUNITIES AND PERSONAL IDENTITY	395	(48)
The Construction and Confirmation of Identity in Sport Subcultures	399	(14)
Peter Donnelly
Kevin Young
Pumping Irony: Crisis and Contradiction in Bodybuilding	413	(14)
Alan M. Klein
The Changing Gender Order in Sport? The Case of Windsurfing Subcultures	427	(16)
Belinda Wheaton
Alan Tomlinson
UNIT XII SPORT AND GLOBALIZATION	443	(32)
Sport, World Economy, Global Culture, and New Social Movements	447	(14)
Jean Harvey
Francois Houle
Sport and Culture As Contested Terrain: Americanization in the Caribbean	461	(6)
Alan M. Klein
Between and Beyond the Global and the Local: American Popular Sporting Culture in New Zealand	467	(8)
Steven J. Jackson
David L. Andrews
Index	475	(4)
About the Editors	479