Binding: Paperback
Description: This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport leisure time physical activity and health - promoting exercise. Connecting the personal with the public it helps the reader understand how individual exercise leisure and sport participation are both facilitated and constrained by their social contexts. Presenting a series of in - depth descriptions of grassroots sport urban lifestyle sport physical activity across the life course sport for children with special needs and the development of creative climates in sport this book seeks to encourage what C. Wright Mills described as the sociological imagination . Every chapter begins with an individual - level account centred on everyday challenges with accessing sport partaking in leisure activities and meeting guidelines for daily exercise before exploring the larger socially determined patterns in which those experiences are located establishing a vital template for the social scientific study of sport leisure and health. Touching on key contemporary themes including diversity inclusion health inequalities and physical inactivity as well as selection and intensification in sports this book offers new case material and theoretical tools for understanding the relationships between sport leisure health and the wider society. This is an indispensable companion for any course on the sociology of sport exercise leisure or physical activity and health.
Title: Social Issues In Sport Leisure And Health
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032300245
Pages: 194 Pages, 2 Tables, Black And White; 9 Line Drawings, Black And White; 12 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 10/3/2023
Category: Sports Training & Coaching