Description: * = New in this edition PART 1. SPORT AS A MICROCOSM OF SOCIETY 1. *American Sport at Century''s End, D. Stanley Eitzen 2. *Sport as Secular Sacrament, Varda Burstyn 3. Sport in Society: An Inspiration or an Opiate? Jay J.Coakley For Further Study PART 2. SPORT AND SOCIALIZATION: ORGANIZED SPORTS 4. Play Groups versus Organized Competitive Team: A Comparison, Jay J. Coakley 5. High School Football and Academics, H. G. Bissinger 6. Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room, Timothy Jon Curry For Further Study PART 3. SPORT AND SOCIALIZATION: THE MASS MEDIA 7. Separating the Men from the Girls: The Gendered Language of Televised Sports, Messner, Duncan, andJensen 8. Televised Sport and the (Anti)Sociological Imagination, Dan C. Hilliard For Further Study PART 4. SPORT AND SOCIALIZATION: SYMBOLS 9. Old Times Not Forgotten: A Battle over Symbols, Douglas Lederman 10. Crimes against Humanity, Ward Churchill 11. The De-Athleticization of Women: The Naming and Gender Marking of Collegiate Sport Teams, Eitzen and Zinn For Further Study PART 5. PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: OVERZEALOUS ATHLETES, PARENTS, AND COACHES 12. *Injured at an Early Age, Larry Tye 13. *Female Gymnasts and Ice Skaters: The Dark Side, Joan Ryan 14. *Despite the Positive Rhetoric About Women''s Sports, Female Athletes Face a Culture of Sexual Harassment, Leslie Heywood 15. *The Democratic Ideal and School Sport, D. Stanley Eitzen For Further Study PART 6. PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: SPORT AND DEVIANCE 16. *Ethical Dilemmas in American Sport, D. Stanley Eitzen 17. *The Real Scandal: Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Sharon Begley and Martha Brant 18. *The Olympics: From Pericles to Samaranch, James Petras 19. Out of Bounds: The Truth about Athletes and Rape, Jill Neimark For Further Study PART 7. PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: BIG-TIME COLLEGE SPORT 20. *Big-Time College Sports, D. Stanley Eitzen 21. *Unpaid Professionals: The Student as Athlete, Andrew Zimbalist 22. *From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes, Peter Adler and Patricia A. Adler For Further Study PART 8. PROBLEMS OF EXCESS: SPORT AND MONEY 23. *A Century of Sport: Money Makes the Sports Go Round, Jim Armstrong 24. *Sports, Jobs, Taxes: Are New Stadiums Worth the Cost? Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist 25. *Upward Mobility Through Sport? The Myths and Realities, D. Stanley Eitzen For Further Study PART 9. STRUCTURED INEQUALITY: SPORT AND RACE/ETHNICITY 26. Sporting Dreams Die on the "Rez," Kevin Simpson 27. *Racial Inequality in Sport, George H. Sage 28. *An End of the Golden Age of Black Participation in Sport? Harry Edwards For Further Study PART 10. STRUCTURED INEQUALITY: SPORT AND GENDER 29. *Equal Opportunity? Title IX and Intercollegiate Sports, John Weistart 30. *Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal StudyTwenty-One Year Update 1977-1998, Linda Carpenter and Vivian Acosta 31. *The Joy of Women''s Sports, Ruth Conniff 32. The Meaning of Success: The Athletic Experience and the Development of Male Identity, Michael A. Messner For Further Study PART 11. STRUCTURED INEQUALITY: SPORT AND SEXUALITY 33. Changing the Game: Homophobia, Sexism, and Lesbians in Sport, Pat Griffin 34. *Fear and Loathing, Dylan B. Tomlinson 35. Sport and Masculinity: The Estrangement of Gay Men, Brian Pronger

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