Ethics and College Sports is a careful analysis of the root problems in intercollegiate athletics in American universities. It examines the prevalent myths that are regularly used to justify the inclusion of intercollegiate athletics, and all of the abuses and scandals it has brought to university campuses, from a moral perspective. In this book, the myths that amateurism is morally desirable, that sports brings good moral character, and that the elite sports programs raise significant sums of money to support university budgets are dissected. The actual impact of the movement to provide gender equity in athletics programs on campus is discussed and a defensible justification for intercollegiate athletics is offered.
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This well-researched book delves into the ethics and status of big-time sports (football and basketball) within the academy. This volume offers substantial food for thought about the conduct of sports and will be valuable for collections supporting beginning work in the sociology of sports and sports management. Recommended. (Choice Magazine )
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Peter A. French is professor of philosophy and director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University.
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An excellent critical work,
By Vince Prygoski (Flint, MI. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ethics and College Sports: Ethics, Sports, and the University (Issues in Academic Ethics) (Paperback)
Peter French casts a critical eye on big time collegiate sports and their effects on higher education. His work is similar to that of Murray Sperber ("Beer and Circus" and "College Sports, Inc."). French focuses on three commonly held beliefs about college sports that he finds to be largely mythical: that college athletes are true amateurs, that college sports inherently provides character education to its participants, and that college sports provides funding to the university in general. He also examines the issue of gender equity and finds that even several decades after Title Nine, all is not well in that regard either. His final chapter describes what he considers to be the reality of big time college sports, that they are primarily an entertainment and not an educational endeavor.
This book, along with those by Sperber and others, raise important questions about the nature of intercollegiate athletics in the United States. --Vince Prygoski, author of "Worst to First, or, a 'Shock'ing tale of Women's Basketball in Motown"
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