Power and Ideology in American Sport : A Critical Perspective Book

Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. A Sociological Perspective of Sport

-The Sociological Perspective

-The Sociological Perspective of This Book

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 2. Social Images and Sport

-Two Images of American Society

-Which Social Image is Accurate?

-Applying the Social Images to Sport

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 3. Structures of Social Inequality: Social Class and Sport

-Class Stratification

-Class Stratification and Sport

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 4. Structures of Social Inequality: Gender Inequality in Sport

-Patriarchy and Gender Relations

-Sectors of Gender Inequality in American Society

-Gender Stratification and Sport

-Transforming Sport Culture Through Females in Sport

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 5. Structures of Social Inequality: Racial Inequality in Sport

-Causes of Racial Inequality: Race or Economic?

-The Legacy of Racial Inequality

-Racial Inequality in Contemporary America

-Racial Inequality in Sport

-Social Mobility Through Sport for African Americans

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 6. Sport and the State: The Political Economy of American Sport

-State Power and Capitalist Enterprise in America

-Role of the State in Private Accumulation

-Capital Accumulation and Sport

-Social Costs of Private Enterprise

-Social Costs of Private Enterprise in Sport

-Ideological Role of the State

-Sport and the Promotion of National Ideology

-The American State and International Affairs

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 7. Commercialization of Sport: From Informal to Corporate Organization

-The Foundations of Modern American Sport

-American Sport in the 20th Century

-The Commercial Imperative in 20th Century Sport

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 8. Mass Media and Sport: Managing Images, Impressions, and Ideology

-Power and Ideological Control of the American Mass Media

-The Role of Print and Electronic Media in Sport

-The Lucrative Association Between Television and Sport

-Ideological Hegemony, the Media, and Sport

-Gender, Race, and the Mass Media

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 9. The Professional Team Sports Industry

-Professional Team Sports as an Industry

-Development of Professional Team Sports

-Cartel Organization of Professional Sports Leagues

-Professional Sport Team Owners

-Professional Athletes and the Social Relations of Their Production

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 10. Power and Ideology in Intercollegiate Sport

-Big-Time Intercollegiate Athletics is Big Business

-Shift From Student Games to Big-Time Sport

-Big-Time College Sport and Amateur Sport Ideology

-Scandals and Reform in Big-Time College Sport

-Awareness, Opposition, and Potential Reform

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 11. Building Character Through Youth and School Sport

-Growth of Public Education and Organized Sport

-Organized Sports Sponsored by Nonschool Agencies

-Youth and School Sport as Agents of Social and Moral Development

-Ethos of Youth and School Sport

-Transformative Potential of Youth and School Sport

-Summary and Preview

-Suggested Readings
Chapter 12. Sport as a Site for Agency: Resistance and Transformation

-Challenging Hegemony in Sport

-Sport and Social Transformation

-Obstacles to Change in Sport

-A Vision for the Future of Sport

-Summary

-Suggested Readings Notes Index About the Author