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Sports Coaching Physical Education Sports Studies Sports Science Fitness Training Sports Management Sports Medicine Skills and Drills Gifts LTAD Skills For Life Sports Officiating Sports CategoryAerobicsAnglingAthleticsBadmintonBaseballBasketballBowlingBoxingCanoeingCricketDanceDivingFencingFootballGolfGymnasticsHockeyIce HockeyIce SkatingLacrosseMartial ArtsNetballOrienteeringRoundersRugbySailingSkiingSoftballSquashSwimmingTable TennisTennisVolleyballWater SportsWeight Training Need to Quick Order? WIN WIN WIN Reading Room Learn from the Experts Join our Team Have your Say Submit your Product Trade Customers Advanced Search Affiliates Title:  Sport, Culture and Society Code:  B06478 Author:  Grant Jarvie Year:  2006 Length:  414 Price:  £29.99  Quantity:  This item is temporarily out of stock and will be despatched as soon as it becomes available. Overview: An exciting new textbook exploring all of the key themes covered in undergraduate sport studies and introducing students to critical thinking about the complex and symbiotic relationship between sport and its wider social context. The text is clearly structured into 4 parts and provides unrivalled coverage of the history, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport. It includes core topics and emerging areas and draws on extensive original research and new case study material. Provides a full range of textbook support materials, including revision questions, research project ideas, web links and further reading. Reviews: "Quite simply, this is a terrific book. Professor Jarvie has brought together his research expertise and years of teaching experience and has produced an outstanding book that will prove to be the benchmark by which other contributions to the sociology of sport are judged. The scope and range of the topics, issues and problems covered is impressive and the style and format in which chapters are arranged is engaging and well structured. Tutors and students alike will welcome this excellent textbook addition to the sociology of sport." Professor Joseph Maguire, Loughborough University, Past-President, International Sociology of Sport Association About the Author: Professor Grant Jarvie is Chair of Sports Studies and Head of the Department of Sports Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. He is past President of the British Society of Sports History, and past Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Sport and Leisure Study Group. Sport and Social Exclusion An interesting read

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