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Sport in Consumer Culture
Horne, John
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BOOK SUMMARY
This text offers a distinctive introduction to sport in contemporary society, drawing on recent developments in sociological theory and research, particularly in relation to debates about culture and consumption. The book argues that sport can be seen as

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BOOK SYNOPSIS
This text offers a distinctive introduction to sport in contemporary society, drawing on recent developments in sociological theory and research, particularly in relation to debates about culture and consumption. The book argues that sport can be seen as central to the "economies of signs and space" of late modernity in which a concern with the body as an object of contemplation and improvement, and not just an instrument for getting things done, increasingly informs images in the mass media, politics and everyday life.

AUTHOR BIO
John Horne teaches in the Moray House Institute of Education, University of Edinburgh.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction * Interpreting Sport in Consumer Culture * Sport and Consumer Culture: Institutions and Structures * Sport, Commercialization and the Media * Globalization, Identity and Sport * Lifestyles and Body Styles in Consumer Sport * Social Inequalities in Sport * The State and the Governance of Sport in Consumer Culture * Conclusion Introduction * Interpreting Sport in Consumer Culture * Sport and Consumer Culture: Institutions and Structures * Sport, Commercialization and the Media * Globalization, Identity and Sport * Lifestyles and Body Styles in Consumer Sport * Social Inequalities in Sport * The State and the Governance of Sport in Consumer Culture * Conclusion

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0333912861
ISBN(13-digit): 9780333912867
Dewey Decimal: 306.4/83
Library of Congress: 2005054607
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 200

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