Understanding Sport: A socio-cultural analysis

by John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel

Book Overview

In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415591406
• ISBN13: 9780415591409
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"