Sociologi: sport og fritid

This book provides important new insights into social issues in the rapidly growing field of esports, filling a gap in the literature that has, until now, been dominated by business and management perspectives.Bringing together leading esports experts from Europe, North America, and Australia, the book provides new sociological analyses that define and locate esports in social studies. It explores key issues in esports and in the wider sociology of sport, including gender equity, diversity, cheating and doping, physical and mental health, and issues related to the governance of esports. Presenting new empirical research alongside critical, theoretical perspectives, the book addresses themes such as digitalisation, technology, equality, innovation, and welfare, suggesting directions for future research and highlighting implications for practice and development in the esports industry.This is essential reading for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners working in esports, the sociology of sport, gaming studies, media studies, sociology, or the interaction of ICT and wider society.

This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain conditions by creating, designing and curating new objects and events, and through making alternative combinations of practices and spaces.

This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths-sometimes recognized, often less so-that circulate in the field of leisure studies, and beyond.In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the "absent presence" of myths and mythmaking in leisure research.

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero and a political figurehead have been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated.

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated.The volume looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links among sport, nationalism, and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona - from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace - powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice, and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture, and society.This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies, or sociology.

Die neueren bildungswissenschaftlichen Diskurse zum Verhaltnis von Grundbildung, Allgemeinbildung und Spezialbildung begrunden eine Revision zum Status und zur Funktion einer steigerungsfahigen Korperlichen Grundbildung in den Schulen. Korperliche Grundbildung (Physical Literacy) wird dabei als staatlich zu garantierende, grundlegende Korper- und Bewegungsbildung in einem sportbezogenen Kontext verstanden. Das Bewegungskonnen in funf bis sieben Bewegungsfeldern, die individuell bestmogliche korperliche Leistungsfahigkeit und die Befahigung zum Sporttreiben auerhalb der Schule sind wesentliche Ziele der Grundbildung. Die Kategorien Korper, Bewegung und Sport markieren die fachliche Domanenspezifik. Die Steigerungsfahigkeit der Grundbildung erweist sich im Verlauf der Humanontogenese. Vollstandige Lernprozesse schlieen zwingend das Uben und Trainieren als Lernformen ein. Die Studien sollen einen inspirierenden Beitrag zur Erneuerung der Theorie und Methodik der Korperlichen Grundbildung leisten.

This handbook brings together a number of the main themes on the study of walking from different disciplines and literatures into a single volume that can be accessed from across the social sciences. The international and cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions of the book are expected to be of interest to numerous academic fields.

This book examines the phenomenon of 'digital guru media' (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness.

In 2010, when LeBron James announced to the world that he was leaving for Miami, he broke the collective heart of his native city and destroyed the hopes of an entire tortured generation. As LeBron headed south, unofficial spokesman Scott Raab sent him off with a middle-finger salute of his own?a deliciously obscene aria of sports fandom, Jewishness, and weight gain that becameinfamous as The Whore of Akron. Four years?and two NBA championships?later, LeBron came home to the Rust Belt faithful who had vilified him mercilessly, none more so than Raab. You're Welcome, Cleveland is the story of both LeBron's and Scott's redemption as they pursue the one thing they crave more than anything in life?an NBA title for the city that made them men.LeBron is back. So is Scott Raab. It's a great story.

This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Universität Vechta; früher Hochschule Vechta (Gerontologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sport im Alter oder auch der sogenannte Alterssport ist insbesondere mit dem demographischen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel immer mehr in den Fokus öffentlicher Diskussion geraten, sodass die gerontologische Forschung zunehmend auch in sozialwissenschaftliche und psychologische Bereiche etc. etabliert wurde.Aber nicht nur die Wissenschaft, sondern auch die Gesellschaft reagierte auf die wachsende Zahl älterer Menschen und auf die damit verbundenen Konsequenzen, indem Bewegungs- und Sportaktivitäten in ihrem Stellenwert vollkommen neu verortet wurden und sich ein neues Verständnis des "Alters" entwickelte. Die Erkenntnis, das Sport und Bewegung auch im höheren Alter die physische und psychische Gesundheit fördern und grundlegender Baustein für einen erfolgreichen Alterungsprozess sind, sowie die Selbstständigkeit bis ins hohe Alter erhalten, hat sich längst in das "Alltagswissen" der Menschen integriert und spiegelt sich in diversen gesellschaftlichen Prozessen wider. Beispielgebend ist dabei der zunehmende Trend der ewigen Jugendlichkeit, oder das stetige Streben nach dem perfekten, idealisierten Körper. Sportaktivität, und die damit einhergehende Fitness, hat sich in unserer modernen und materialistischen Leistungsgesellschaft somit zu einer Kultur, ja, quasi zu einem Leitsatz, einer Devise entwickelt.

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity.Exploring important themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownership of sport and its impact on sporting cultures, the book presents contemporary and historical cases from around the world, including football in a divided Ireland; sport and the anti-Apartheid movement; Chinese sporting nationalism and soft power; and the role of sport media in the shaping of Catalan identity.This is an important resource for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Sports Journalism, Sports Management Studies, Sports Marketing, Football Studies, Sport and Identity Studies, Sociology of Sport Studies, and Cultural Studies.

This book is an exploration of how time, space and social atmospheres contribute to the experience of taste. It demonstrates complex combinations of material, sensual and symbolic atmospheres and social encounters that shape this experience.Space, Taste and Affect brings together case studies from the fields of sociology, geography, history, psycho-social studies and anthropology to examine debates around how¿urban¿designers, architects and market producers manipulate the¿experience¿of taste through creating certain atmospheres. The book also explores how the experience of taste varies throughout life, or even during fleeting social encounters, challenging the sense of taste as static. This book moves¿beyond common narratives that taste is 'acquired' or developed, töemphasize¿the role of psycho-social histories of nostalgia, memories of childhood, migration, trauma and displacement in the experience of we eat and drink. It focuses on entrenched social dimensions of class, value and distinction instead of psychological and¿neuroscientific conceptualizations of taste and sensuous practices of consumption to be intrinsically linked to the experience of taste in complex ways.This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, human geography, tourism and leisure studies, anthropology, psychology, arts and literature, architecture and urban design.

Duelism: Confronting Sport Through Its Doubles is a critical collection that adopts a consciously interdisciplinary approach to sport studies. To that end, Duelism reflects the many corollaries of sport studies by including treatments from diverse critical viewpoints and bringing them into direct conversation. This view of sport as a multifaceted area of study carries into our chosen focus: confronting sport through its doubles. This collection thus treats the broader concept of sport by observing how sports and sporting culture are defined through their relationships to diverse facets of life and society. From nationhood to race, to violence and gender, Duelism curates critical readings from sport scholars across many fields that acknowledge and interrogate the concept of sport by exploring it in connection with its significant doubles: an approach we have termed "duelism."The term "duelism" accounts for two important features of sport: first, that the development of sports and the academic legitimatization of sport studies has been defined by intense periods of adversity or struggle. Sporting culture and studies have been marked by a series of conflicts, centering on issues such as the organization and purpose of activities, who can and cannot play them, or how they should be integrated into people's lives. In addition to capturing the spirit of combat and contestation that has so long defined sport in society, Duelism explicitly underscores sports' inherent duality, as a positive and negative force, and highlights our collective approach to reading and critiquing sport through its many doubles.

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.

The Olympic Games are the world's most complex and challenging sport mega-event to organize. Managing the Olympics is the first ever attempt to bring together the world's leading Olympic management researchers in one book and draws on the latest research into the management challenges faced by the organizers and key stakeholders of the Games.

Olympic Education is tasked by both Olympism (Olympic Movement's underlying philosophy) and the United Nations to educate on human rights. This study explores how present this call is in contemporary European Olympic Education. National Olympic Education programmes from twelve countries are examined and compared: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, and Spain. Responses by individuals with NOAs' leadership positions to a semi-standardized research questionnaire as well as written information by NOAs on implemented national Olympic Education programmes, collected during February-May 2021, are subjected to a content analysis. Results indicate that human rights are explicitly and implicitly included as an educational theme in contemporary Olympic Education programmes. Parallels between human rights education and Olympic Education can be drawn.  

Alle sprechen von Transformation der Gesellschaften und Nachhaltigkeit - doch wie werden diese Themen empirisch in den Wissenschaften umgesetzt und auf welcher empirischen Basis stehen die theoretischen Erkenntnisse? Dieses Buch zeigt die theoretische Basis des gleichnamigen Forschungsprogramms und behandelt als zentrale Fragen: Wie hat sich die moderne Lebensfuhrung verandert? Kann sich diese unter Berucksichtigung der vielfaltigen Kontexte und Rahmenbedingungen noch weiter umgestalten? Wie beeinflussen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurse Biographien? 

Booger Bottom, in rural Georgia, has no road signs, no stoplights, no stores. Nobody knows how it got its name, whether from the mythical booger?part panther, part wild dog?that is rumored to have roamed there, or from the Feds ("boogers") who raided local moonshine stills during Prohibition. Today Booger Bottom's most famous product is Michael Waddell, one of the world's most accomplished hunters. Growing up in this wild land near the Chattahoochee River, Waddell was blessed with two great gifts: a wonderful father who stoked his passion for hunting, and endless time in which to pursue it. He eventually left the backwoods of Georgia to stalk elk, moose, caribou, wildebeest, eland, and everything in between, from Alaska to Africa.Mixing Waddell's best hunting stories with hilarious anecdotes about the people he's met along the way, Hunting Booger Bottom is a must-read for anyone who has ever wandered into the woods with "a stick and a string."