Social Issues in Sport, Leisure, and Health

David Karen editor Sine Agergaard editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:3rd Oct '23

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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.

“Social Issues in Sport, Leisure, and Health is a significant and timely contribution to the fields of sport sociology and public health. It is particularly relevant for students, practitioners, and early career researchers in sport sociology, public health, and leisure studies who seek to understand the interplay between individual exercise practices and broader societal structures ... The book’s contemporary relevance further underscores its importance. At a time when individualism often takes precedence over collectivism, this volume provides a crucial counterpoint by illustrating how broader social determinants shape health, sport participation, and leisure activities.” – Karin Andersson, Malmö University, idrottsforum.org

ISBN: 9781032300245

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

194 pages