Sport in social development traditions, transitions, and transformations Alan G. Ingham, John W. Loy, editors. - Champaign, IL Human Kinetics Publishers c1993. - xix, 273 p. ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : sport studies through the lens of Raymond Williams / Alan G. Ingham and Stephen Hardy -- Ancient athletic motifs and the modern olympic games : an analysis of rituals and representations / Synthia S. Slowikowski and John W. Loy -- Sport and the Victorian gentleman / W. Robert Morford and Martha J. McIntosh -- Transforming into a tradition : rugby and the making of imperial Wales, 1890-1914 / David L. Andrews and Jeremy W. Howell -- Sport and social change in Latin America / Joseph L. Arbena -- Subcultures in sport : resilience and transformation / Peter Donnelly -- Sexual oppression in sport : past, present, and future alternatives / Alison Dewar -- Gender on the sports agenda / Jennifer A. Hargreaves -- Labor relations in sport : central issues in their emergence and structure in high-performance sport / Rob Beamish. Professional team sport and the American city : urban politics and franchise relocations / Kimberly S. Schimmel, Alan G. Ingham, and Jeremy W. Howell -- Civic ideology in the public domain : Victorian ideology in the "lifestyle crisis" of the 1990s / Alan Clarke.

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Sports--Sociological aspects.

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