Product Description

The book that set the standard for sports textbooks has been extensively revised and updated for its new eighth edition. Among the many new topical additions are elite child athletics, gambling in college sports, performance enhancement drugs, sport and nationalism after 9/11, the Beijing Olympics, Nike and other corporations, the power of media in sport, and more on minorities and on disabilities in sport.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390867 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
For many years, Stan Eitzen and George Sage have blazed the academic trail of sociological research and public education on sport. In this new edition of Sociology of North American Sport, supported by a wealth of facts and enlivened with discussions of contemporary sport issues and controversies, Eitzen and Sage broaden and deepen that trail. After reading this valuable book, students will never see sport in the same ways. Instead, they will understand how sport connects--in both problematic and constructive ways--with their daily lives in families, schools, politics and the mass media. --Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California

There are so many great academics working in sport sociology in the new millennium. None of us would be here if it were not for the pioneering work of Stan Eitzen and George Sage. Their eight edition, Sociology of North American Sport, in its previous reincarnations, has guided us, informed us, and made us think about all of the important issue sin the world of sport sociology. The eight edition brings new fresh air into the discussions and Eitzen and Sage continue their brilliant work in challenging the boundaries of sport sociology. This is absolutely must reading for anybody interested in the field. --Richard Lapchick, Chair of the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program and the Director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, University of Central Florida.

About the Author
D. Stanley Eitzen (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is Professor Emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University. Although he is well known for his scholarship on homelessness, poverty, social inequality, power, family, and criminology, he is best known for his contributions to the sociology of sport. He was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow at the Institute for International Sport. George H. Sage is Professor Emeritus of sociology and kinesiology at the University of Northern Colorado. He has published more than 50 articles in the professional literature, and authored or coauthored 16 books. He was inducted into the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Hall of Fame in 2006.