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Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport


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About the Book

Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on college sport that asks whether or not big-time college sports are compatible with higher education. This edition also features new material throughout, such as the rising costs and increasing injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia in sport, “one and done,” and more. Fair and Foul draws on examples ranging from youth to pro sports to give us a deeper understanding of how sports shape our everyday world. Ideal for sparking classroom discussion, Fair and Foul is an excellent book for students of sports and society, American culture, and other courses

Table of Contents:
The Duality of SportSport Unites, Sport DividesNames, Logos, Mascots, and Flags: The Contradictory Uses of Sports SymbolsSport Is Fair, Sport Is FoulSport Is Healthy, Sport Is DestructiveThe Organization of Youth Sport: Issues and ConsequencesSport Is Expressive, Sport Is ControlledAre Sports Played on a Level Playing Field? Issues of Race, Class, and GenderThe Mass Media and Sport: Distorted Windows, Blinders, and Game ChangersBig-Time College Sports: Commercialized Sport within AcademiaSport as the Path to Success? Myth and RealityProfessional Sports Franchises: Public Teams, Private BusinessesThe Globalization of SportThe Challenge: Changing SportNotes Index

About the Author :
D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, most recently as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-four books, including three on sport, as well as numerous scholarly articles and chapters in scholarly books. He is a former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the recipient of that organization’s Distinguished Service Award. Among his other awards, he was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport.

Review :
Stan Eitzen has been a pioneer in this field. Like many others, I am in his debt as one of the many he has inspired. Fair and Foul has exceeded my expectations. Each semester that I use it, there is a group of students that understand the good and the bad of sport and see sport as an intellectual issue. Eitzen’s book is a really different sort of text. As a microcosm of society, sport is a social construction and therefore is an arena in which sociological processes can be studied. As my course is an introduction to the field of sport sociology, the goal of the course is to apply a sociological lens to the world of sports and athletics. Fair and Foul helps me attain this goal. It looks at issues and concerns surrounding the sports world. Its’ coverage is vast and accommodates many of the sections of my course. This book presents the various social issues embedded in sports in an accessible way and provides a useful overview for many of the units in my course. Fair and Foul is unique in its approach and provides quality coverage of significant issues impacting the world of sport. It is an insightful resource that students respond well to.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798881852481
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport
  • ISBN-10: 8881852489
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 328


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