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  • Growing up Working Class

    Hidden Injuries and the Development of Angry White Men and Women

    de Thomas J. Gorman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This enlightening auto-ethnography examines how social class (and other social institutions and structures) affect how people grow up. Primarily, the book investigates how American children and young adults are impacted by the "hidden injuries" of class, and offers a rich description of how these injuries manifest and curdle later in life. Thomas J. Gorman provides sociological explanations for ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Best American Sports Writing 2017

    de Glenn Stout, Howard Bryant ...
    Series series Best American
    For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Sociology, Work and Organisation

    Seventh Edition

    de Tony Watson ...
    The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Fitness Culture

    Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun

    de Roberta Sassatelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Sports and The Global South

    Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka

    de S. Janaka Biyanwila ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures.By explaining how the realm ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Hypocrisy

    An Analysis of Sport and Religion

    de Stephen G. Wieting ...
    With close attention to the spheres of sport and religion as important sites of moral currency, this book draws on media coverage of major cases of hypocrisy, attending to differing meanings and consequences of hypocrisy within the US, France and Iceland. Instances come from scandals within the established churches, as well as cases from the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Tour de ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Principles of Economics

    de A. Marshall ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) – Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant textbook in economics for a long time and it is considered to be his seminal work. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Locating Cultural Work

    The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Creativity

    de S. Luckman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and how this sits within local economies and communities. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    de Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi, Keith Harrison, Jackson Katz, Kyle Kusz, Carwyn Jones, Mary McDonald, Leanne Norman, Genevieve Rail, Barbara Ravel, Ellen Staurowsky, Cheria Thomas, Sanford S. Williams, Jay Coakley, Angela J. Hattery, C. Richard King, Richard Lapchick, Earl Smith ...
    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure

    de Robert A. Stebbins ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work". This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is discussed as the volitional definition. By means of a lengthy literature review, this book sets out the theoretical and empirical ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event

    Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective

    de Małgorzata Zofia Kowalska ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznań, Poland. As the host city of the tournament almost 25 years after Poland’s transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy in 1989, the author focuses on how the local myths and traditions of resourcefulness were invoked to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Immigration Economics

    de George J. Borjas ...
    Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today ... Leer más

    $55.79 USD