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Author Sage, George Harvey.

Title Power and ideology in American sport : a critical perspective / George H. Sage.

Imprint Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.483 Sa18p 1998    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xiii, 335 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-326) and index.
Contents A sociological perspective of sport -- Social images and sport -- Structures of social inequality : social class and sport -- Structures of social inequality : gender inequality in sport -- Structures of social inequality : racial inequality in sport -- Sport and the state : the political economy of American sport -- Commercialization of sport : from informal to corporate organization -- Mass media and sport : managing images, impressions, and ideology -- The professional team sports industry -- Power and ideology in intercollegiate sport -- Building character through youth and school sport -- Sport as a site for agency : resistance and transformation.
Subject Sports -- Social aspects.
ISBN 0880116609 (pbk.)

 
    
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