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"In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and symptom of socio-cultural change. Fully integrating historical, sociological, political and cultural analysis, the book covers every key topic in the study of sport and society, including: - debate, interpretation and theory - sport and the media - sport and the body - sport and politics - commercialization - globalization. Retaining the accessibility and scholarly rigour for which Understanding Sport has always been renowned, this new edition includes entirely new chapters on global transformations, sports mega-events and sites, sporting bodies and governance, as well as a succinct guide to researching sport. With review and seminar questions included in every chapter, plus concise, helpful guides to further reading, Understanding Sport remains an essential textbook for all courses on sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport and social theory, or social issues in sport"--

1. Industrial society, social change and sports culture -- 2. Case studies in the growth of modern sports -- 3. Debates, interpretations, theories -- 4. Social stratification and social division in sport -- 5. The social construction of identity and cultural reproduction -- 6. Sport and representation -- 7. Sporting bodies : disciplining and defining normality -- 8. Sport, the state and politics -- 9. Governance and sport -- 10. The labour market -- 11. Sport, commercialisation and commodification -- 12. Global transformations -- 13. Sport spaces, sites and events -- 14. Conclusion : methods for understanding sport culture.

Offers an introduction to understanding the position of sport in consumer society. Drawing on developments in sociological theory and research, particularly in relation to debates about culture and consumption, this book examines how sport has become more central to the capitalist 'economies of signs and space'

John Horne revient dans cet article sur plus de 40 ans decompagnonnage avec La contemporaine- BDIC. Il évoque les deux sites physiques de Nanterre et des Invalides, le fichier systématique Bloch-Renouvin et enfin la rencontre marquante qu'il a faite avec Pierre Renouvin peu de temps avant sa mort.

The article discusses some of the issues that sociologists research with respect to the Olympic Games.

On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, one of the leading international scholars on sport and consumer culture, John Horne, considers the trajectory and challenges of research on sports mega-events and their place in capitalist modernity. In anchoring work on this topic in Roche's definition of mega-events, Horne notes that sports mega-events are important symbolic, economic, and political elements in the orientation of nations to stake their place in global society. Fundamental issues about the concept of 'mega-event' pose challenges for scholars as questions remain over what qualifies as a sports mega-event and how 'lived experience' with such events transacts with media spectacularization and characterization. The essay closes by posing broader questions for further investigation about the economic, political, and social risks and benefits of sports mega-events and how these events may portend and relate to changing relations of economic and political power on a global scale.