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| Acknowledgments | |
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| General introduction: sport-the game and the field | |
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| The big picture: theorizing sports from sociological perspectives9 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The dynamics of modern sport: notes on achievement-striving and the social significance of sport | |
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| The mundanity of excellence: an ethnographic report on stratification and Olympic swimmers | |
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| Varsity syndrome: the unkindest cut | |
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| Mapping sports space | |
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| Journalistic view: Ten reasons why sports aren't sports | |
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| High brow and low brow contests: sports with-more or less-class | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste | |
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| Body and soul: the boys who beat the street | |
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| Class, ethnicity, and color in the making of Brazilian football | |
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| Journalistic view an unlikely champion | |
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| Journalistic view Higher, faster, yes. More meritocratic? No | |
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| Coloring the game: race matters in sport | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The anatomy of scientific racism: racialist responses to black athletic achievement | |
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| The sports taboo: why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls | |
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| Manliness and civilization | |
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| Hot spicks versus cool spades: toward a cultural definition of prizefighting | |
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| Sport as contested terrain | |
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| Journalistic view: College booster bias is delaying minority hiring | |
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| Manning the field: gender myths and privileges in sports-constructing masculinity; socialization | |
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| Sports culture and gender among undergraduates: a study of student-athletes and students at the University of Michigan | |
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| The sanctity of Sunday football: why men love sports | |
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| An iron man | |
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| Cheerieading and the gendered politics of sport | |
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| Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: children constructing gender | |
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| Journalistic view: When tranquillity trumps equality | |
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| Nice guys finish last: athletes out of bounds and the problem of sports and deviance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Playing center: the triad of violence in men's sports | |
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| Discourses of deception: cheating in professional running | |
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| In pursuit of doped excellence: the lab animal | |
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| The Sprewell/Carlesimo episode: unacceptable violence or unacceptable victim? | |
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| Crime and athletes: new racial stereotypes | |
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| Journalistic view: IOC scandal part of sports corruption big picture | |
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| Certain kinds of people: sexuality and sport | |
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| Women athletes as falsely accused deviants: managing the lesbian stigma | |
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| From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer: mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in US women's sport | |
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| Is baseball ready for a gay Jackie Robinson? | |
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| Journalistic view: an off-field obituary: the death of Reggie White | |
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| Growth of global community or neo-imperialism?: national cultures and the internationalization of sports | |
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| Sport and globalisation | |
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| Theorizing sport in the global process | |
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| The denationalization of sport; de-ethnicization of the nation and identity de-territorialization | |
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| Cross-national cultural diffusion: the global spread of cricket | |
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| Offside: soccer and American exceptionalism | |
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| Beyond a boundary? Sport, transnational advertising, and the reimagining of national culture | |
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| Journalistic view: Surge in racist mood raises concerns on eve of World Cup | |
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| Index | |