15 Sources for Globalization in Sport

Globalization and sport: playing the world

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This book talks about the global impact of sport in the various aspects such as spectators and participants. The book also covers the effect media has on sport as well as the structure of sport.

Power and global sport: zones of prestige, emulation and resistance

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This book covers the power sport possesses as the primary form of world communication and the good that sport can bring to the relationship of nations in the world. The book looks in depth at the world of rugby and soccer and what a global impact they create.

Sport worlds: a sociological perspective

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This book covers the national impact of sport and how it benefits developing nations. Also the book covers gender and social relations in sport and sports role in society. Other aspects like recruiting and ethnic based sport relations.

Sport: Sport and power relations

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This book covers a more cultural aspect of globalization and sport covering race in sport as well as social class and how the ego plays into sport and other epistemological aspects of sport.

Global Sport: identities, societies, civilizations

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This book covers the consequences of sport globalization as well as theoretical situations that globalization might cause. This book also covers ideas of migrant labor induced by sport and sport industry.

Mediasport

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The affects of technology on sport as well as the affects of marketing on sport. The evolution of sport on television and the image of sport in media. The book also covers issues of race and ethnicity in sport.

Media, sports, & society

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This book offers a detailed history of sport and its role in society. It also covers media strategies and things like scheduling costs and the American bias in sport. The book also covers the viewers experience and how spectators change the world of sport.

A Brief History of American Sports

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This book discusses the creation and evolution of sports in America. The history starts around the beginning of our nation and talks about the parallels between indigenous games and sports played today.

Sports in the Western world

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This book covers four major themes of sport. The first being the evolution of sport from a ritual based activity to a recreational activity. The second covers sport in the expanding world; primarily the industrial revolution. The third covers the emergence of team sports in the nineteenth century and the fourth covers sports in the age of conflict.

The Social significance of sport: an introduction to the sociology of sport

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This book covers why sports function the way they do in society and why they have become the industry that they provide today. The book is broken into three major themes covering topics such as resistance, sex and race.

Globalization and Sport: Sketching theoretical model for empirical analyses

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This book covers the tensions of globalization and the pros and cons in terms of local vs globalization. The book discusses a “web of issues” on globalization that offers and idea of how globalization can negatively affect sport.

Sports, nationalism, and globalization: European and North American perspectives

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This book covers nationalism and how it affects sport and globalization in sport. There is a European and North American focus as you can tell from the title of the book. Nationalism serves as one of the best forms of resistance toward globalization.

Women, Sport, and Globalization

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This book discusses the inequality in all aspects of sport. The book covers these inequalities at local levels all the way to the national stage. The book uses the coverage of the Australian Tennis open as its primary example of inequalities in sport.

Globalization of Sports: The Case of Professional Football and its international management challenges

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This book talks about where the game of soccer fits into the scheme of globalization in primarily European nations. Soccer offers a unique perspective as it’s the biggest sport worldwide. It covers topics such as where the market is and how to identify the consumers.

Sports geography

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This book covers the geography of sport and where specific sports are prevalent and how geography plays a role in the popularity of a sport. The book uses three main ideas in the book; sport and location, sport globalization, and sport and welfare geography.



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