Sport, Culture and Society

  • Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    By Grant Jarvie

    This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society.

  • Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, Second Edition
    Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction, Second Edition
    By Grant Jarvie

    International in scope, the book explores the key social theories that shape our understanding of sport as a social phenomenon and critically examines many of the assumptions that underpin that understanding.

  • Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    By Grant Jarvie

    This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society.

  • Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    By Grant Jarvie

    Sport and cultural policy The scope of cultural policy in different parts of the world varies ; some policies include sport and some do ... The IOC contract to host the Olympic Games requires host cities to sponsor a cultural festival .

  • Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
    By Grant Jarvie

    Sport, Culture and Society is the most broad-ranging, in-depth and thoughtful introduction to the sociocultural analysis of sport currently available and sets a new agenda for the discipline.

  • Sport, Culture and Society: An introduction
    Sport, Culture and Society: An introduction
    By Grant Jarvie

    ... towards a closer relationship with globalisation on its own terms – in other words, what has been referred to as creeping towards capitalism with Chinese characteristics. There had been, at the time, a closer East Asian alliance between ...