Описание: Incorporating insights from sociology and economics, this book explores the multiple factors that have resulted in the sport of soccer struggling to achieve major status in America and why it currently has nothing like the cultural impact of other popular American sports.
Автор: Guest Andrew M. Название: Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan`s Guide to the Global Game ISBN: 1978817312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978817319 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3756.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.
Автор: Guest, Andrew M. Название: Soccer in mind ISBN: 1978817320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978817326 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8521.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.
Автор: Groombridge Nic Название: Sports Criminology: A Critical Criminology of Sport and Games ISBN: 1447323157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447323150 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 13858.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.
Автор: Billings Andrew C., Ruihley Brody J. Название: The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games Within Games ISBN: 1138898716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138898714 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $1.5bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and a significant and growing component of the contemporary sports economy.
This book presents an overview of the history of fantasy sport and its close connection to innovations in sports media. Drawing on extensive empirical research, it offers an analysis of the demographics of fantasy sport, the motivations of fantasy sport players and their significance as heavy consumers of sport media and as ultra-fans. It also draws cross-cultural comparisons between fantasy sport players in the US, UK, Europe and beyond.
The Fantasy Sport Industry examines the key commercial and media stakeholders in the production and development of fantasy sport, and points to new directions for the fantasy sport industry within modern sport business. It is therefore, fascinating reading for any student, scholar or professional with an interest in sports media, sports business, fandom, the relationship between sport and society, or cultural studies.
Автор: William J. Baker Название: Of Gods and Games: Religious Faith and Modern Sports ISBN: 0820349852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820349855 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3049.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Few would deny America`s devotion to sports; however, many would gloss over it as all of a piece. To do that, as William J. Baker shows us, is to miss the fascinating variety of experiences at the intersection of sports and religion - and the ramifications of such on a national citizenry defined, as Baker writes, "by the team they cheer on Saturday and the church they attend on Sunday."
Автор: Groombridge Nic Название: Sports Criminology: A Critical Criminology of Sport and Games ISBN: 1447323165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447323167 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 4948.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.
Автор: Cram, David Название: Francis Willughby`s Book of Games ISBN: 1859284604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781859284605 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Sheldon Anderson Название: Twin Cities Sports: Games for All Seasons ISBN: 1682261093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682261095 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4574.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The histories in this title are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the Minneapolis Lakers` basketball dynasty, and more.
Автор: Thomas P. Oates Название: Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play ISBN: 0253014999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253014993 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.
Автор: Sen Ronojoy, Goyal Omita Название: Games We Play: Sports in South Asia ISBN: 0190126817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190126810 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14196.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book looks at the different sports played and watched in South Asia and situates them in the region`s history, society and economy. The activities covered span sports like cricket, which enjoys a religion-like status in South Asia, to more obscure ones such as boat racing in Kerala.
Автор: Thomas P. Oates Название: Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play ISBN: 0253015022 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253015020 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3260.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.
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