Sociology of Sport

Richard Giulianotti is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. His research interests are in sport, globalization, crime and deviance, popular culture, qualitative research methods and social theory. He has published several books on various aspects of sport, particularly its international dimensions.

I strongly recommend this set of volumes produced by Richard Giulianotti, one of the most prominent global figures in the social-scientific study of sport. It is cross-disciplinary, extensively comparative, and global in its reach. Not merely is it the finest collection in the fields of sociology and sports studies, it successfully situates these as central to the social sciencesProfessor Roland RobertsonEmeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen [This four set volume] represent the highset degree of a solid and fundamentally fair, and highly qualified status report on development and content...Giulianotti has undoubtedly done a sterling job.Bo Carlssonidrottsforum.org

• VOLUME 1: CORE THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON SPORTThe Structure and Classification of Games - R. CailloisThe Interdependence of Sport and Culture - G. LuschenThe Autonomy of Modern Sport: Dangerous and Endangered - U. SchimankSport as Ritual: Interpretations from Durkheim to Goffman - S. BirrellDeep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight - C. GeertzIdentity Reinforcement in Sport: Revisiting the Symbolic Interactionist Legacy - O. WeissFrom Ritual to Record - A. GuttmannSport: A Prison of Measured Time - J-M. BrohmSport and Cultural Reification - J. AltSport Without Guarantees: Toward a Cultural Studies That Matters - D.L. Andrews and M.D. Giardina Social Criticism as Moral Criticism: A Habermasian Take on Sports - W.J. MorganSport and Social Class - P. BourdieuAn Essay on Sport and Violence′ in The Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process - N. EliasGender on the Sports Agenda - J. HargreavesThe Myth of Black Sports Supremacy - G.A. SailesThe Postmodern Ballpark as a Leisure Setting: Enchantment and Simulated De-McDonaldization - G. Ritzer and T. StillmanThe Technologies of the Self: Sport, Feminism and Foucault - P. MarkulaThe Mirror of Terrorism - J. BaudrillardVOLUME 2: SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND CONFLICTS IN SPORTSocial Class, Young People, Sport and Physical Education - K. Roberts, K. Green and A. SmithThe Paradox of Social Class and Sports Involvement: The Roles of Cultural and Economic Capital - T.C. WilsonThe "New" Corporate Habitus in Adventure Racing - J. Kay and S. Laberge Women in Sport: Gender Relations and Future Perspectives - G. PfisterMultiple Bodies: Sportswomen, Soccer and Sexuality - B. Cox and S. Thompson Culture, Gender Roles and Sport: The Case of Korean Players on the LPGA Tour - E.H. Shin and E.A. Nam An Iron Man: The Body and Some Contradictions of Hegemonic Masculinity - R.W. ConnellSocial Justice and Mens Interests: The Case of Title IX - M.A. Messner and N.M. Solomon Openly Gay Athletes: Contesting Hegemonic Masculinity in a Homophobic Environment - E. AndersonFrom Straight to Gaie? Quebec Sportswomens Discursive Constructions of Sexuality and Destabilization of the Linear Coming Out Process - B. Ravel and G. Raile On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport - J.A. Long and M.J. McNamee A Theory of the Preferred Worker: A Structural Explanation for Black Male Dominance in Basketball - S.N. Brooks and M.A. McKail Islam′s View on Physical Activity and Sport: Egyptian Women Interpreting Islam - K. Walseth and K. Fasting The Nonsense of Native American Sport Imagery: Reclaiming a Past that Never Was - M.A. RobidouxWhores, Slaves and Stallions: Languages of Exploitation and Accommodation among Boxers - L.J.D. WacquantMen, Spinal Cord Injury, Memories and the Narrative Performance of Pain - A.C. Sparkes and B. Smith Adding Insult to Injury: Workplace Injury in English Professional Football - M.J. RoderickCoaches, Sexual Harassment and Education - K. Fasting and C. Brackenridge Reservoir Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Mimesis and Sports-Related Violence - M. Atkinson and K. Young VOLUME 3: SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND SITES OF SPORTIn the Gym: Motives, Meaning and Moral Careers - N. CrossleySituated Learning in an Australian Surf Club - R. LightSport and Social Capital - O. SeippelSense and Sensibility at the Ball Park: What Japanese Fans Make of Professional Baseball - W.W. KellyFalse Leeds: The Construction of Hooligan Confrontations - G. ArmstrongSupporters, Followers, Fans and Flaneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football - R. GiulianottiThe Body as Culture: The Case of the Sumo Wrestler - S.H. WhangPlaying Football and Dancing Tango: Embodying Argentina in Movement, Style and Identity - E. ArchettiTraversing the Matrix: Cyborg Athletes, Technology, and the Environment - T.M. Butryn and M.A. MasucciCivil Rights, Doping Control and the World Anti-doping Code - B. HoulihanNegotiating Identities Through Disability Sport - H. Chin-Ju and I. Brittain Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking - S. LyngLiving on the Edge: The Appeal of Risk Sports for the Professional Middle Class - R. FletcherSensing the Stadium - C. Gaffney and J. Bale On the Waterfront: Retrospectives on the Relationship Between Sport and Communities - J.M. Smith and A.G. Ingham Sport and Economic Regeneration in Cities - C. Gratton, S. Shibli and R. ColemanCulture, Sport and the Night-Time Economy - D. RoweDavid Beckham and the Changing (Re)Presentations of English Identity - J. Harris and B. Clayton Cathy Freeman: The Quest for Australian Identity - C. Hallinan and T. Bruce Mapping the Mythical: A Geopolitics of National Sporting Stereotypes - H O′DonnellFantasy Football Hooliganism in Popular Media - E. PoultonVOLUME 4: SPORT AND GLOBALIZATIONCross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket - J. Kaufman and O. PattersonPlaying with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket - A. AppaduraiTransformations in National Identity through Football in Brazil: Lessons from Two Historical Defeats - J.S. Leite LopesHow to Influence National Pride? The Olympic Medal Index as a Unifying Narrative - I. Van Hilvoorde, A. Elling and R. StokvisSport, Tribes and Technology: The New Zealand All Blacks′ Haka and the Politics of Identity - S.J. Jackson and B. HokuwhituThe Whole World Isn′t Watching (But We Thought They Were): The Superbowl and United States Solipsism - C.R. Martin and J.L. ReevesA Brief Overview of the Olympic System - J-L. Chappelet and B. Kubler-MabbottPower and Resistance in the Governance of World Football: Theorizing FIFAs Transnational Impact - J. Sugden and A. TomlinsonGlobetrotters and Local Heroes? Labour Migration, Basketball, and Local Identities - M. Falcous and J.A. MaguireHave Skates, Will Travel: Canada, International Hockey, and the Changing Hockey Labour Market - H. CantelonGlobalization, Naturalization and Identity: The Case of Borderless Elite Athletes in Japan - N. Chiba, O. Ebihara and S. MorinoThe Glocalization of US Sports in South Korea - Y. ChoThe Globalization of Football: A Study in the Globalization of the "Serious Life" - R. Giulianotti and R. Robertson Policy Transfer and Learning from the West: Elite Basketball Development in the Peoples Republic of China - B. Houlihan, T-C. Tan and M. GreenHuman Rights in Sports - B. Kidd and P. DonnellyPower, Politics and "Sport for Development and Peace": Investigating the Utility of Sport for International Development - S. DarnellAlterglobalization, Global Social Movements, and the Possibility of Political Transformation through Sport - J. Harvey, J.D. Horne and P. Safai Mega-Events and Modernity Revisited: Globalization and the Case of the Olympics - M. RocheScripting the Nation: Sport, Mega-Events, Foreign Policy and State-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa - S. CornelissenMaking the World Safe for Global Capital: the Sydney 2000 Olympics and beyond - H.J. Lenskyj