Full Description
Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport's darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on college sport that asks whether or not big-time college sports are compatible with higher education. This edition also features new material throughout, such as the rising costs and increasing injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia in sport, "one and done," and more.
Fair and Foul draws on examples ranging from youth to pro sports to give us a deeper understanding of how sports shape our everyday world. Ideal for sparking classroom discussion, Fair and Foul is an excellent book for students of sports and society, American culture, and other courses
Contents
1.The Duality of Sport
2.Sport Unites, Sport Divides
3.Names, Logos, Mascots, and Flags: The Contradictory Uses of Sports Symbols
4.Sport Is Fair, Sport Is Foul
5.Sport Is Healthy, Sport Is Destructive
6.The Organization of Youth Sport: Issues and Consequences
7.Sport Is Expressive, Sport Is Controlled
8.Are Sports Played on a Level Playing Field? Issues of Race, Class, and Gender
9.The Mass Media and Sport: Distorted Windows, Blinders, and Game Changers
10.Big-Time College Sports: Commercialized Sport within Academia
11.Sport as the Path to Success? Myth and Reality
12.Professional Sports Franchises: Public Teams, Private Businesses
13.The Globalization of Sport
14.The Challenge: Changing Sport
Notes
Index
