Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport / Edition 6

Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport's darker side--the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction that lays out the two themes of the book with fresh examples, and a significantly revised chapter on college sport that asks whether or not big-time college sports are compatible with higher education. This edition also features new material throughout, such as the rising costs and increasing injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia in sport, "one and done," and more.

Fair and Foul draws on examples ranging from youth to pro sports to give us a deeper understanding of how sports shape our everyday world. Ideal for sparking classroom discussion, Fair and Foul is an excellent book for students of sports and society, American culture, and other courses

ISBN-13: 9781442248441

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Inc.

Publication Date: 02-04-2016

Pages: 328

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Age Range: 18 Years

D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, most recently as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-four books, including three on sport, as well as numerous scholarly articles and chapters in scholarly books. He is a former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the recipient of that organization's Distinguished Service Award. Among his other awards, he was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport.

Table of Contents

1.The Duality of Sport 2.Sport Unites, Sport Divides 3.Names, Logos, Mascots, and Flags: The Contradictory Uses of Sports Symbols 4.Sport Is Fair, Sport Is Foul 5.Sport Is Healthy, Sport Is Destructive 6.The Organization of Youth Sport: Issues and Consequences 7.Sport Is Expressive, Sport Is Controlled 8.Are Sports Played on a Level Playing Field? Issues of Race, Class, and Gender 9.The Mass Media and Sport: Distorted Windows, Blinders, and Game Changers 10.Big-Time College Sports: Commercialized Sport within Academia 11.Sport as the Path to Success? Myth and Reality 12.Professional Sports Franchises: Public Teams, Private Businesses 13.The Globalization of Sport 14.The Challenge: Changing Sport Notes Index