Andrew M. Guest

Soccer in Mind

A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Drawing on concepts from cognitive bias to globalization, the book illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781978817326
• ISBN-10: 1978817320
• Artikelnr.: 61347723

Autorenporträt

ANDREW M. GUEST is a professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Portland in Oregon, where he also serves as Director of the Core Curriculum. He has played, coached, researched, taught, and enjoyed soccer in locales ranging from Malawi to Michigan, and from Northern Ireland to northeast Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments 
1. Lenses: Psychology, Sociology, and the Ways Soccer Explains
Us              
2. Fans: Losing Your Mind and Finding Your Place                 
3. Cultures: Soccer is Familiar, Soccer is Strange         
4. Players: Talent Development Versus Human Development               
5. Performances: Mental Skills, People Skills, and the Psychology in
Soccer  
6. Impacts: Players, Games, and the Greater
Good                                
7. Initiatives: Soccer for Development and Peace                      
8. Futures: Toward Thinking Fandom                            
Notes
Index