Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society

Social Dimensions of Canadian Sport and Physical Activity by Jane Crossman and Jay Scherer is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the relationship between sociological issues and sport, with a specific focus on the Canadian sports industry. KEY TOPICS: Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society;Thinking Sociologically: Sport, Physical Culture, and Critical Theory;Sport and Physical Culture in Historical Perspective;Sport and Social Stratification;Physical Culture, Sport, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada;Sex, Gender, and Sexuality;Youth Sport and Physical Culture;Deviance, Sport, and Physical Culture;Violence and Sport;Sport and Health;Sport, Media, and Ideology;Sport, Politics, and Policy;The Business of Sport;Globalization, Sport, and International Development;Sport and the Environment;Sport and the Future MARKET: Appropriate for Sociology of Sport courses. "Students who study the social dimensions of sport and physical culture inevitably bring their own perceptions and taken-for-granted understandings of what these popular practices are all about. It makes sense that these perceptions are often grounded in their own personal and individualized experiences in sport and physical culture. These perspectives are, of course, valuable, but they can also be limiting, as people often do not consider how their own immediate experiences emerged from and are related to our societies' histories, and to the broader structural influences that exert enormous influence on our lives. For example, the ways people are governed, the media people use and are exposed to, and the ways that inequities in society have been and are currently dealt with, are all in some way relevant to experiences with, understandings of, and access to sports and physical culture."-- Provided by publisher On behalf of all the contributors, we hope that you enjoy reading this book, and that it provides you with a solid sociological foundation from which to further understand and think critically about all of the rich dimensions of sport and physical culture in Canadian society.