D Stanley Eitzen

Broschiertes Buch

Fair and Foul

Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

Beschreibung

The sixth edition of Fair and Foul features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction, and a chapter on big-time college sport. The book explores our love of sport as well as its darker side, with new material throughout on topics such as injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia, and more.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 6th edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9781442248441
• ISBN-10: 1442248440
• Artikelnr.: 42809569