[PDF] Sport Matters eBook

Author : Kenneth L. Shropshire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1613630506

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Donald Sterling. Ray Rice. The Washington Redskins. The Miami Dolphins. NCAA Athletes. These names, among countless others, have blanketed the headlines as the media has brought global attention to several recent sports controversies. Now, Kenneth L. Shropshire, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, uses these stories as a prism for exploring the leadership challenges facing team owners, management, players, and fans. In Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports, Shropshire examines the need for diversity, inclusion, respect, and equality in sports, focusing on the need for leadership to embrace and deliver these principles in a real and tangible way within the sports industry. He also introduces the Sports Power Matrix, a framework for understanding power within the sports industry. Sport Matters addresses what the Donald Sterling drama can teach us about race and the need for inclusion at the ownership level; the lessons learned from the NFL and Ray Rice case; the Washington Redskins name and the economics of change; what the Miami Dolphins matter tells us about respect in the workplace and beyond; and compensation and equality in "amateur" sports. Sport Matters, filled with disturbing revelations and uncomfortable truths, also provides hope, revealing how obstacles to achieving an ideal culture of equality and respect within the sports industry can be removed. Shropshire argues that while change matters, continued emphasis on diversity, inclusion and respect is needed to create true progress.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134870132

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1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.

Author : John Bloom
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814798810

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Sports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half.

Author : John Bloom
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814798829

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Sports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half.

Author : Scott Witmer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432959794

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Sports and Society examines the role that sporting traditions have played in human society from primitive cultures to the present day. Did sports begin simply for practical reasons such as training soldiers for war, or do humans have a less practical need to play active, physical games? How have different sports migrated around the world, and what effect have new cultures had on these imports? Exciting and varied case studies are used throughout this book to illustrate issues and concepts.

Author : H. Westerbeek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230598897

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Sport has become big business. This book takes a global look at the business of sport focusing upon the structure of the sport industry, commercialisation of sport, sport marketing, franchising, television and other rights and the rise of the global super athletes and teams. This is positioned in a global political and economic context and in the framework of global uncertainties and scenarios.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1787430014

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In this tenth celebratory volume, ten recognized and influential sport scholars from around the world reflect on their respective academic journeys within the subfield Sociology of Sport.

Author : Kenneth L. Shropshire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1613631383

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In The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports, Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams, Jr., introduce The Student-Athlete Manifesto, a roadmap to increase the likelihood that student-athletes can succeed both on and off the field. They also offer a Meaningful Degree Model, which ensures education pays for everyone.

Author : Sophia Jowett
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780736057806

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The book is designed to allow readers to study issues in isolation or as part of a course or a module. The five main parts are Relationships in Sport, Coach Leadership and Group Dynamics, Motivational Climate, Key Social and Cognitive Processes in Sport, and The Athlete in the Wider Sport Environment. Each chapter is cross-referenced and provides a clear description of the topic and a concise theoretical overview along with a discussion of existing research. The chapters also introduce new research ideas, suggest practical research applications, and conclude with summaries and questions to help instructors engage the class in discussion and to help students follow the key points."--Publisher's website.

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134870140

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1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.