Sport: Social Problems and Issues provides a detailed analysis and critique of contemporary social problems and issues for the coach, organizer, teacher or student of sport. Drawing upon perspectives from social science, it examines change and development of modern sport, both nationally and internationally, enabling students and practitioners to address those problems and issues which threaten the integrity of sport.Frank Kew is the course tutor for the B.A. in Leisure, Recreation and Community at Bradford and Ilkley College and has been an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Only comprehensive text on the treatment of social problems and issues in sportWritten in an easy-to-read accessible styleRelates theory to practice
Author(s): Frank Kew
Edition: 1
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 176
Sport: Social Problems and Issues......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Part One Sport as Social Practice and Social Institution......Page 12
Look at it this way......Page 16
Sport as a social practice......Page 19
Sport as a socal institution......Page 22
A delicate balancing act......Page 25
Characteristics of modern sports......Page 26
Changes to sports processes......Page 30
Changes to sport worlds......Page 33
Different sports, different problems......Page 38
A critical note......Page 42
Introduction......Page 43
Sport and capital......Page 44
Sponsorship......Page 47
The sponsorship–advertizing-media axis......Page 51
Globalization......Page 60
Some key questions......Page 62
Introduction......Page 67
Types of disassociation: contest problems......Page 70
Typical response to contest problems......Page 74
Types of disassociation: pre-contest problems......Page 78
The exploitation and abuse of athletes......Page 79
Responses to exploitation......Page 86
A critical note: individual or system......Page 88
Part Two Sport and Structural Inequality......Page 94
Multiculturalism......Page 98
Racism......Page 100
The Afro-Caribbean experience......Page 103
South Asians and sport......Page 112
Society disables......Page 119
The accessibility of sports......Page 122
Integration......Page 129
Competitive sport......Page 130
Different but equitable......Page 133
What's the problem......Page 135
Sex, gender and sexism......Page 137
Gender relations......Page 138
Who rules, who coaches?......Page 146
Strategies for equity......Page 148
Introduction: the end of the class......Page 154
Social surveys......Page 155
Dimension of class......Page 159
The habitus......Page 161
An underclass?......Page 168
Class rules......Page 169
Summary......Page 170
References......Page 172
Further reading......Page 184
Index......Page 188
