More Than a Game Sports and Politics

Name: More Than a Game Sports and Politics
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ISBN: 9780313253539

ISBN-10: 0313253536

ISBN-13: 9780313253539

Edition: 1988

Authors: Martin Vinokur

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Despite the increasing importance and politicization of sport, Western scholars have only recently begun to consider it as a subject worthy of serious study and research. Martin Vinokur contends that sport has become an increasingly pervasive and visibly central element in Western culture and that its function as a political tool is likely to grow still more in the 1990s, as governments realize the full value of sports to the political socialization process. He shows how the German Democratic Republic and Romania in particular have used sports to help achieve their political goals. This national emphasis on sports is then contrasted to the Western governments' approach. Finally, Vinokur…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/7/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 169
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.880



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