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| Great Theorists | |
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| Toward a Sport Ethic: Science, Politics, and Weber's Sociology | |
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| Four Pure Types of Action | |
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| Science and Ethics: The Limits of Goal-Rational Action | |
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| The Politics of Ethical Conduct in Sport | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Civilizing Sports: Figurational Sociology and the Sociology of Sport | |
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| The Figurational Sociology of Sport and Its Critics | |
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| Criticizing and Testing Elias | |
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| The "Civilizing" of Modern Sports | |
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| Soccer Hooliganism as an English and World Problem | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Beyond the Sociological Imagination: Doing Autoethnography to Explore Intersections of Biography and History | |
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| Sociological Imagination | |
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| Applying the Sociological Imagination to Research | |
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| Applying Critical Sociological Imagination to My Studies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Research Guided by Mid-Level Sociological Theories | |
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| The Sociology of Science: Sport, Training, and the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances | |
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| Theories in the Sociology of Science | |
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| Sport and the Science of Training: The Conservation of Energy and Beyond | |
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| Understanding the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Political Economy: Sport and Urban Development | |
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| Urban Political Economy and Urban Regime Theory | |
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| Sport Development and Urban Development in Historical Perspective | |
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| Sport, Urban Regime, and Urban Development in Indianapolis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Institutional Logics Theory: Examining Big-Time College Sport | |
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| Theory of Institutional Logics | |
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| Case Study: 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Broadcasts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Playing for Whom? Sport, Religion, and the Double-Movement of Secularization in America | |
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| The Double Movement of Secularization | |
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| Societal-Level Secularization: The Differentiation of Sport from Religion | |
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| Sport as Civil Religion? | |
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| Organizational Innovation Connecting Religion and Sport | |
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| Religion and Spirituality at the Individual Level | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Theories of Inequality | |
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| Feminist Theory and the Study of Sport: An Illustration from Title IX | |
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| The First Wave | |
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| Modern Feminist Theory:The Second Wave | |
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| Postmodern Feminism: The Third Wave | |
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| Title IX and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Sport | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Social and Cultural Capital: Race, School Attachment, and the Role of High School Sports | |
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| Theoretical Frameworks | |
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| Sport Participation, Academic Achievement and School Attachment | |
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| Role of Coaches | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research Additional Resources | |
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| Race, Class, and Gender Theory: Violence Against Women in the Institution of Sport | |
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| The Issue | |
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| Methods and Data | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Masculinities and the Sociology of Sport: Issues and Ironies in the 21st Century | |
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| Hegemonic Masculinity | |
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| Constructions of Masculinity in Professional Football | |
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| Constructions of Masculinity in Hardcore Bodybuilding | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Getting Girls in the Game: Negotiations of Structure and Agency in a Girls' Recreational Sport Program | |
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| Overview of Theories of Structuration | |
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| Culture | |
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| Girls in the Game | |
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| Cultural Analysis: Discursive Constructions of Sport and the "At-Risk" Girls | |
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| Helping Girls "At-Risk": The Structure of "Girls in the Game" | |
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| "Doing Whatever We Want": Reproductive Agency at GIG | |
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| Negotiating Agency and Constraint in Everyday Social Interactions: The Role of Culture in School-Sanctioned Verus Hip-Hop Femininities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Microlevel Theories | |
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| The Mundanity of Excellence: Tiger Woods and Excellence in Golf | |
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| Tiger the Golfer | |
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| Theory of Dominance in Sport | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Making it Big: Visible Symbols of Success, Physical Appearance, and Sport Figures | |
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| The Null Hypothesis and Methodology | |
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| Observations of Sport, Fitness, and "Health" Magazine Images | |
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| Interpretations: Some Features on Which to Focus | |
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| Symbolic Interaction, Dramaturgy, and Image-Making | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Research | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Sport and Multiple Identities in Postwar Trinidad: The Case of McDonald Bailey | |
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| Theoretical Considerations | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Athletic Representation and Multiple Identities: Trinidadian or British | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editor | |