Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture

by Garry Crawford

Book Overview

Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course.

The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415288908
• ISBN13: 9780415288903
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.5"