Americans have long cherished sport for its display of superb skills, heroic efforts, selfless teamwork, uncanny strategies, exuberance, spontaneity, and loyalty. This book moves beyond the myths and media hype to take a closer look at America's love of sport and how it so often comes in conflict with our most basic values. With reverence yet a sharp eye for the the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding, Eitzen portrays famous and lesser known events from professional and college sports, including well known coaches and players, to give us a deeper understanding of what sports means to us and how it affects our everyday world.
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America's No. 1 addiction is sports, and we don't want a cure. We overlook the trash talk, drug abuse and outrageous salaries of our athletic heroes, because we can't take our eyes off the game. Why? D. Stanley Eitzen explains it all for you. (Mark Kiszla )
Excellent . . . a good read for academics and non-academics alike. This is a solid companion to texts in the sociology of sport. (Choice )
This book is an outstanding presentation of the 'fair' and the 'foul', 'uniting' and 'dividing', 'healthy' and 'destructive', and 'expressive' and 'controlled' aspects of athletics in the U.S. . . . The chapters on school sport and big-time college athletes were especially compelling. . . . Eitzen [also] dispells the myth of lifelong financial security among professional athletes. This [assertion] is especially poignant for those not familiar with the sociology of sport literature and provides the basis for a classroom discussion of these issues. (Sociology Of Sport Journal )
D. Stanley Eitzen continues to demystify the American sport system in this accessible book by combining a critical point of view with 'bottom-up' social activism...The structure of the book means that it can be read either in its entirety or in a more thematic way, and Eitzen skillfully deploys quotes from athletes, coaches, and reporters. The text should be useful for sensitizing students, coaches, athletes to the need for change, and will also appeal to people who are trying to resolve their love-hate relationship with sport. (Alexandre Dumas International Review For The Sociology Of Sport )
I think it largely succeeds in accomplishing its primary objective: to provide an overview of social and ethical problems in the American sports world. For anyone wanting to learn about these unsavory aspects of sport, this book is the place to begin. I recommend it for introductory level courses on sport sociology, American society, and American social problems. (Washington, Robert E. Contemporary Sociology )
This book is an outstanding presentation of the 'fair' and the 'foul', 'uniting' and 'dividing', 'healthy' and 'destructive', and 'expressive' and 'controlled' aspects of athletics in the U.S. . . . The chapters on school sport and big-time college athletes were especially compelling. . . . Eitzen [also] dispells the myth of lifelong financial security among professional athletes. This [assertion] is especially poignant for those not familiar with the sociology of sport literature and provides the basis for a classroom discussion of these issues... (Sociology Of Sport Journal )
With sweeping scope, and through the use of engaging examples, Fair and Foul simultaneously offers constructive criticism of what's wrong with sport, while showing what's right. Eitzen demonstrates how sport is part of larger systems of inequality, greed, and intolerance, while also suggesting the ways that the positive aspects of sport can be mobilized to become a vibrant part of movements for progressive social changes. A must-read! (Chen, Cheng )
Excellent . . . a good read for academics and non-academics alike. This is a solid companion to texts in the sociology of sport. (Choice )
This book is an outstanding presentation of the 'fair' and the 'foul', 'uniting' and 'dividing', 'healthy' and 'destructive', and 'expressive' and 'controlled' aspects of athletics in the U.S. . . . The chapters on school sport and big-time college athletes were especially compelling. . . . Eitzen [also] dispells the myth of lifelong financial security among professional athletes. This [assertion] is especially poignant for those not familiar with the sociology of sport literature and provides the basis for a classroom discussion of these issues. (Sociology Of Sport Journal )
D. Stanley Eitzen continues to demystify the American sport system in this accessible book by combining a critical point of view with 'bottom-up' social activism...The structure of the book means that it can be read either in its entirety or in a more thematic way, and Eitzen skillfully deploys quotes from athletes, coaches, and reporters. The text should be useful for sensitizing students, coaches, athletes to the need for change, and will also appeal to people who are trying to resolve their love-hate relationship with sport. (Alexandre Dumas International Review For The Sociology Of Sport )
I think it largely succeeds in accomplishing its primary objective: to provide an overview of social and ethical problems in the American sports world. For anyone wanting to learn about these unsavory aspects of sport, this book is the place to begin. I recommend it for introductory level courses on sport sociology, American society, and American social problems. (Washington, Robert E. Contemporary Sociology )
This book is an outstanding presentation of the 'fair' and the 'foul', 'uniting' and 'dividing', 'healthy' and 'destructive', and 'expressive' and 'controlled' aspects of athletics in the U.S. . . . The chapters on school sport and big-time college athletes were especially compelling. . . . Eitzen [also] dispells the myth of lifelong financial security among professional athletes. This [assertion] is especially poignant for those not familiar with the sociology of sport literature and provides the basis for a classroom discussion of these issues... (Sociology Of Sport Journal )
With sweeping scope, and through the use of engaging examples, Fair and Foul simultaneously offers constructive criticism of what's wrong with sport, while showing what's right. Eitzen demonstrates how sport is part of larger systems of inequality, greed, and intolerance, while also suggesting the ways that the positive aspects of sport can be mobilized to become a vibrant part of movements for progressive social changes. A must-read! (Chen, Cheng )
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D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus of sociology, Colorado State University.
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Good book, although they have remade this book into a newer longer version which was required for my class at school (Sociology of Sport) So make sure you get the right ISBN # if you are purchasing this book for school.. Overall excellent seller though with great prices, no complaints here at all!!!
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