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Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society. The pervasiveness of sport can be seen by the enormous amount of primary and second ary involvement in it by people of all ages and social strata. Sport penetrates into and plays a significant role in all of the social institutions. The functions of play, games, and sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. Although there is no definitive list, there are seven major categories of functions of play, games, and sport: in stinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, and personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences discussing the importance of each of these functions.

From July 31 to August 6, 1993, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College cosponsored a Faculty Seminar on "Biological Perspectives in the Social Sciences" at Dartmouth. Participants included scholars and graduate students from anthropology, communications, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology, as well as representatives from business and the public sector.

Throughout the US & elsewhere in the Western world since WWII, there has been a growing interest in medicine. As early as the 1930's, popular accounts of sci'fic development began to interest lay readers in Med care & innovation. The signif involvement of soc & behavioral sci'ts in Med educ & res began a decade ago & has increased rapidly. It has become apparent that the understanding of health & disease requires a holistic frame of reference in which the psychol'al, soc, & cultural aspects of HB are appropriately related to the biological nature of man & the physical environment in which he lives. Emphasis upon the holistic approach to Med sci & upon comprehensive health care has moved medicine to seek the services of soc sci'ts, notably in connection with public health, preventive medicine, & psychiatry. As conceptualization & methodology in the soc sci's have matured, soc sci'ts have increasingly tended to interest themselves in applied fields & have come to grasp the significance of health & medicine as a major focus of organized HB. Med sci, soc sci, & popular interest merge to formulate contemporary approaches & norms in health care. AA.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It follows on from the previous volume which examined Classical Greece until the emergence of the early Christian movement in the Roman empire. Through separate chapters, it discusses the key literature (myths, fairy tales and Shakespeare), religions and philosophers of the era, and the development of early radical views and issues over time. This book examines the links between the origins of radical criminology and its future. It speaks to those interested in the (pre)history of criminology and the historical production of criminological knowledge, drawing on Criminology, Sociology, Classics, History, Philosophy, Ancient Literature and Politics

This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and postgradate students.