Participation in sports during adolescence is considered a healthy behavior. The extent to
which adolescent athletes engage in other healthful (or risky) behaviors is less clear …

Millions of children and adolescents around the world participate in organized sport for
holistic health and developmental benefits. However, for some, sport participation is …

In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological
interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football's …

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around
contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue …

Exertion games require investing physical effort. The fact that such games can support
physical health is tempered by our limited understanding of how to design for engaging …

The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the
sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and …

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community? Like many other
contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from …

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize
strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat …

In this article, I examine how triathletes learn to physically manage, socially perform and
individually reflect upon the endurance sport of triathlon as a microcosm of the 'civilising …

In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of Sport, Theory and Social
Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam White examine how the structure and culture of …