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Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity epub

Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity epub

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    Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text surpasses the scope of sociological texts that focus solely on sports, covering a broad range of physical activities such as fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others. The authors emphasize the promotion of healthy individuals and a healthy body in the many movement settings where the body is active.

    Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores contemporary topics such as reducing disparities in education and income, increasing socioeconomic diversity in communities, the medicalization of fitness, the rise of cosmetic fitness, the promotion of physical activity as a requirement for health, and the globalization of the fitness industry. The text includes the following features to enhance student engagement:
    • Chapter objectives help students achieve their learning goals
    • Key points and terms to highlight important information throughout the text
    • Active Bodies sidebars that offer context for concepts presented in the chapter and provide examples and applications
    • Discussion questions that provide opportunities to reflect on chapter topics
    Part I of Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity examines political, educational, media, and economic institutions that influence the relationship between society and physical activity. Part II explores how an individual’s race, gender, social class, and ability are interpreted through a social lens. Part III of the text discusses the process of developing healthy populations as well as promoting public health and body positivity.

    Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity offers a cross-cultural perspective of society, health, and the body in motion. Readers will finish the text with a greater understanding of social theory applications in physical culture.

    Audience

    Upper-undergraduate- and graduate-level textbook for students studying physical cultural studies, performance and body culture, sport and identity, sport and social issues, cultural economy of sport, or physical activity from a cross-cultural perspective.
    Part I. Body Institutions: Foundations and Considerations

    Chapter 1. Introduction
    Robert Pitter, David L. Andrews, and Brandon Wallace
    Defining Physical Culture
    Physical Culture and the Sociological Imagination
    The Importance of a Critical and Theoretical Approach
    Case Study: Fitness and Society
    Conclusion

    Chapter 2. Politics of the Active Body
    Andrew Grainger, Brandon Wallace, and David L. Andrews
    Politics as Power
    Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony
    Hegemony, Sport, and the Active Body
    Dominant, Residual, and Emergent Forms of Physical Culture
    Conclusion

    Chapter 3. Critical Pedagogy and the Active Body
    Ryan King-White and Matthew Hawzen
    The Focus of Physical Education
    Critical Pedagogy
    Understanding and Applying Critical Pedagogy
    Critical Pedagogy in Kinesiology
    Conclusion

    Chapter 4. Medicine, Technology, and the Active Body
    Katelyn Esmonde
    Physical Activity and Epidemiology
    Physical Technocultures
    Sociocultural Issues and Possibilities for Technologies of Physical Culture
    Conclusion

    Chapter 5. The Corporeal Sport Economy
    Adam Beissel, Chris McLeod, and David L. Andrews
    The Economic Base and Sporting Superstructure
    Sport and Capitalism
    The Late Capitalist (Cultural) Economy
    Sport and Late Capitalism
    What Is a Corporeal Economy?
    The Material and Social Relations of Late Capitalist Production
    The Active Body as Instrument in Sport Production
    The Active Body as Object of Sport Production
    Conclusion

    Part II. Body Stratification: Meanings and Social Identities

    Chapter 6. Gender, Sex, and Physical Culture
    Shannon Jette, David L. Andrews, and Robert Pitter
    Social Construction of Gendered Identities
    Performances of Exercise Culture
    Performances of Sport Culture
    Expanding the Range of Gender Identity Through Physical Culture
    Conclusion

    Chapter 7. Racialized Bodies and Black and Indigenous Physical Cultures
    Brandon Wallace, Robert Pitter, and David L. Andrews
    Disrupting the Myth of Race
    Race or Ethnicity?
    African Americans and Black Physical Culture
    Native Americans and Indigenous Physical Cultures
    Conclusion

    Chapter 8. Social Class, Habitus, and Physical Culture
    Robert Pitter, David L. Andrews, and Brandon Wallace
    How Social Class Matters
    Social Class Distribution of Physical Activity
    Class Habitus, Hexis, and Embodied Lifestyle Cultures
    Conclusion

    Chapter 9. Disability, Sport, Activity, and Public Health
    Mollie Greenberg and Stephanie J. Cork
    What Is Disability? A Note on Language
    Early History of Disability in Society
    Current Models of Disability
    Activism and Civil Rights Legislation
    Confronting Health, Illness and Disability
    Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
    Adapted Physical Activity and Sport
    Neurodiversity
    The Special Olympics
    Conclusion

    Part III. Body Movements: Scales and Spaces

    Chapter 10. Popular Culture and the Active Body
    Michael D. Giardina and A. Lamont Williams
    A Note About Popular Culture
    The Active Body in Early Popular Culture
    The Active Body in Contemporary Popular Culture
    Conclusion

    Chapter 11. Physical Activity and Community
    Robert Pitter, Brandon Wallace, and David L. Andrews
    Conceptualizing Community
    Creating Community via Physical Culture
    Community Development via Physical Activity
    Conclusion

    Chapter 12. The Active Body in Cities
    Oliver J.C. Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, and Bryan C. Clift
    The Rise of the Neoliberal City
    Models of Urban Physical Activity Provision
    Creative Sport and Recreation: Designing Physical Activity Attractions
    Conclusion

    Chapter 13. Globalization and Physical Activity
    Joshua Newman, David L. Andrews, and Robert Pitter
    Local and Global Movements
    What Is Globalization?
    Debates on Globalization
    Global Physical Culture
    Global Media Spectacles
    The Globalization of Culture and Economy
    Economic Globalization at Work
    The Problem of Global Sporting Goods Production
    Global Migration: People on the Move
    Conclusion

    Chapter 14. The Environment and the Active Body
    Martin Barrett and Kyle S. Bunds
    The Body as the Environment
    The Body in the Environment
    The Body for the Environment
    Conclusion
    Robert Pitter, PhD, is a professor at Acadia University. His publications have examined sport, physical activity, and society as well as environmental education and organizational theory. He has been published in such journals as Research in Sport and Exercise Quarterly, Quest, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for Sociology of Sport, and Journal of Sport and Social Issues.

    David L. Andrews is a professor of physical cultural studies in the department of kinesiology at the University of Maryland. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the department of American studies and the department of sociology.

    Dr. Andrews' research interests center on contextualizing sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic, and technological forces shaping contemporary society. His latest book is titled Making Sport Great Again? The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (published by Palgrave). Previous books include Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (published by Peter Lang), Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture (edited with Michael Silk and published by Temple University Press), The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (edited with Michael Silk and Holly Thorpe and published by Routledge), and Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (edited with Joshua Newman and Holly Thorpe and published by Rutgers University Press). His current book project is titled The Great Moving Right Show: Sport, Political Assemblages, and the Trump Awakening (to be published by Rutgers University Press).

    Joshua I. Newman, PhD, is director of the Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development and a professor of sport, media, and cultural studies at Florida State University. He is also the doctorate program coordinator and associate chair in the department of sport management. Previously, Newman was a lecturer of sport studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In 2017, he served as president and research fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Communication & Sport, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Sport Journal. Newman’s work has featured in The Society Pages, the Somatic Podcast, and the Global Sport Matters Podcast, and he has done interviews for the Washington Post, Time magazine, BuzzFeed, and the Associated Press.

    All ancillaries are free to adopting instructors through HKPropel.

    Instructor guide. For each chapter, the instructor guide includes a teaching outline, additional activities, topics for further assignments or study, sample answers to the book’s discussion questions, and resources for further learning.

    Test package. Contains 270 questions in true-false, fill-in-the-blank, essay and short-answer, and multiple-choice formats.

    Presentation package. Features more than 230 PowerPoint slides of text, artwork, and tables from the book that can be used for class discussion and presentation. The slides in the presentation package can be used directly within PowerPoint or printed to make handouts for students. Instructors can easily add, modify, and rearrange the order of the slides.

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