Not Just a Game: Essays in Canadian Sport Sociology

by Hart Cantelon and Jean Harvey

Book Overview

Organized sport as we know it is not an expression of social consensus or of continuing progress towards a better world, nor is it a homogeneous, cohesive entity. This book invites us to consider the hidden face of Canadian sport. Has there been equal opportunity for the various social classes and ethnic groups, and between men and women? What role has television, the writer of sports fiction, or the established church in Quebec had in deciding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077660189X
• ISBN13: 9780776601892
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher