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A critical and insightful text that explores the meaning and purpose of sports in society through an interdisciplinary lens, bringing together sports studies, sociology, philosophy and more, and drawing on a wide range of international examples, in order to provoke readers to question assumptions about the value of sports and physical culture.

Evolving for centuries in relative isolation, sport in Japan developed a unique character reflective of Japanese culture and society. In recent decades, Japan's drive towards cultural and economic modernization has consciously incorporated a modernization of its sports cultures. Japan, Sport and Society provides insights into this process, revealing the tensions between continuity and change, tradition and modernity, the local and the global in a culture facing the new economic and political realities of our modern world. The book explores three broad areas of interest:sport and modern society

The aim of this collection is to bring the work of Japanese scholars in the area of sport, culture and Japanese society to the attention of a wider audience. Work of this kind is, in fact, not new. In 1967, in the second volume of the International Review of Sport Sociology, the official publication of the recently formed International Committee for Sport Sociology (ICSS), Kyuzo Takenoshita published both a paper on 'The Social Structure of the Sport Population in Japan' and a separate overview of 'The Sociological Research Work of Sport in Japan'. In the latter paper, Takenoshita conclu.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Interviewees -- Introduction: a Sporting Chance? -- Part I 'Race' and Male Sport -- 1 Understanding 'Race' and Sport -- 2 British Minority Ethnic Groups, Sport and Society -- 3 Sporting Beginnings -- 4 Sport in the Later Years -- Part II 'Race', Gender and Sport -- 5 Women and Sport -- 6 Interviews with Black and Asian Sportswomen -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

The role of sport in contemporary society needs no emphasis. Sport has become an inexorable part of the modern society with influence being felt in all facets of national life. Sport has also become a symbol of national unity. Governments utilize sport to legitimate themselves. Sport in society is studied because they are closely linked with how people think about and see the world. The overwhelming influence of sports in nations has lent to the evolvement of extensive bureaucracy to support and develop sport. Sociology assists in analyzing and clarifying the different types of relationships within the society. Man has been able to reduce his tension and to divert a somewhat aggressive behavior to an object instead of towards a friend or a fellow man through participation in sport. This paper therefore, reviews the following: sport and society, the role of sport in the society, social control and sport, socialization and sport, Sport and Socializing Institutions.

The role of sport in contemporary society needs no emphasis. Sport has become an inexorable part of the modern society with influence being felt in all facets of national life. Sport has also become a symbol of national unity. Governments utilize sport to legitimate themselves. Sport in society is studied because they are closely linked with how people think about and see the world. The overwhelming influence of sports in nations has lent to the evolvement of extensive bureaucracy to support and develop sport. Sociology assists in analyzing and clarifying the different types of relationships within the society. Man has been able to reduce his tension and to divert a somewhat aggressive behavior to an object instead of towards a friend or a fellow man through participation in sport. This paper therefore, reviews the following: sport and society, the role of sport in the society, social control and sport, socialization and sport, Sport and Socializing Institutions. Article visualizations:

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: General Approaches to Ratings -- Chapter 1: Ratings as Tools of Informational Transparency -- 1.1 Evolution of the Understanding of Rating -- 1.1.1 What Is Success and Successfulness? -- 1.1.2 How Can Success Be Measured? -- 1.1.3 So What Are Ratings? -- 1.1.4 Rating Is Not Ranking -- 1.1.5 Ratings and Indices -- 1.1.6 Ratings and Expert Evaluation -- 1.1.7 Expertise or Computability -- 1.2 Ratings as a Special Type of Expertise -- 1.2.1 Informational Uncertainty and the Problem of Selection -- 1.2.2 Remote and Insider Ratings

Doping is not only a medical-legal issue. The increase in doping results from increasing international competition, the market economy and the increasing national significance of sport. The ethical problems of the researchers are pointed out. The gradually stricter measures taken by the Swedish Sport Federation against doping are described. The debate on doping in the daily papers after the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984 was characterized by moral indignation and an increasingly cynical attitude to top sport. These reactions are interpreted in the light of an historical analysis of the development of sport and its ideological manifestation in Swedish society.