| New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance': Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control Contributor(s): Crabbe, Tim (Author), Blackshaw, Tony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415288851 ISBN-13: 9780415288859 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: "New Perspectives on Sport and Deviance" examines a significant contradiction in our way of thinking about contemporary sport. On one side, there is a growing awareness of behavior that is judged to be deviant or outside the frameworks of 'normal' sporting practice, such as drug taking, violence, corruption, cheating, racism, homophobia and sexual abuse. On the other side, there exists a tendency within sporting, political and popular discourses to regard sport as an activity that is conferred with a whole series of positive attributes, a view that conceives sport as an unquestionably positive force in terms of individual and social development. In this systematic assessment of deviance in sport, the authors employ innovative theoretical approaches, building on Foucauldian notions of a 'normalizing gaze, ' to reveal the ways in which deviant behaviors are defined, and inclusive and exclusive practices are policed, within specific sporting cultures. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Sports Psychology - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports - Psychology | Psychopathology - General |
| Dewey: 306.483 |
| LCCN: 2004040957 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.22" W x 9.1" (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance. |