R&L Education
Pages: 284
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-57886-380-8 • Paperback • March 2006 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Sandra Spickard Prettyman is an assistant professor at the University of Akron where she teaches courses in Cultural Foundations of Education and Qualitative Research. Brian Lampman is a secondary educator at Saline Middle School (MI) where he teaches eighth grade social studies, integrating sports sociology concepts into his course. Brian also coaches the varsity boys' soccer team in Saline.
Part 1 Introduction: Why Study Sport?
Part 2 Part I: Youth Participation and Sport
Chapter 3 Organized Sports for Young People: A 20th Century Invention
Chapter 4 An Open Letter to Communities: What Community Leaders Can Do to Improve Youth Sports
Chapter 5 Time Out! For Better Sports for Kids
Chapter 6 Motivation and Outcomes of Youth Participation and Sports
Part 7 Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Sport
Chapter 8 Title IX: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 9 Liberties and Lipstick: The Paradox of Cheerleading as Sport
Chapter 10 If You Beat Him, You Own Him, He's Your Bitch: Coaches, Language, and Power
Chapter 11 Pitching for Equality: Gay Athletes and Homophobia
Part 12 Part III: Race and Ethnicity and Sport
Chapter 13 The New Racial Stereotypes
Chapter 14 Exploring Race with Secondary Students: Developing Critical Media Literacy
Chapter 15 Unexpected, Undeserved, Unrewarded...and Undeniable: Sport and Transformation
Chapter 16 Making Sense of the American Indian Mascot Issue
Part 17 Part IV: Sport and the Media
Chapter 18 Songs Sung Red, White, and Blue: Music, Sports, and the Rhetoric of Patriotism
Chapter 19 Reconsidering Girl Power: Examining Media Images of Female Athletes
Chapter 20 Why Be A "Jackass"?: Media Images of Young White Men In and Out of Sport in New Millenium America
Chapter 21 Education, Sport, and Hip-Hop through the Mic of Stuart Scott
Part 22 Part V: Sport and Violence
Chapter 23 In the Name of Obedience: Overcoming the Damaging Myths about Hazing
Chapter 24 Athletes, Role Models, and Criminals: What Do We Make of This Tripatite Mess?
Part 25 Part VI: Sport and Schools
Chapter 26 The Scholar-Baller Approach: A Cultural Map for Academic Success in America
Chapter 27 Rethinking the Role of Sports in Our Schools
Chapter 28 The Meaning of Success in Academics and Athletics
Part 29 Conclusion: Sport, Society, and Social Justice
A remarkably useful and versatile contribution to the field of sport sociology that has the added benefit of resonating across a range of disciplines. These essays manage to address themes with direct relevance to fields as diverse as history, education, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, and political science. And they do so without losing focus on what makes this such a necessary collection in the first place: The sheer power of sports culture to shape social constructions of gender, race, sexual orientation, and nationality. But perhaps most impressive is how the editors have managed to explore these dynamics by connecting social structures to people's everyday, lived experiences.
— Jackson Katz, co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program and creator of the critically acclaimed film Tough Guise: Violenc
The essays are solid, and they challenge the reader to think about and reflect on social constructs and their relationships with sport and society.
— Choice
Young people already know that organized sports—whether they love them or hate them—are an important part of their lives. Sports are a multi-billion dollar business that saturates the mass media; young peoples' clothes are splattered with swooshes and team logos; school activities and annual year books point to sport's centrality in the social life of schools. So it is fitting that Sandra Spickard Prettyman and Brian Lampman have assembled a collection of fascinating articles from some of the top scholars of sport. Teachers and students alike will find that this text, like no other, illuminates previously taken-for-granted, yet centrally important issues in their daily lives.
— Cheng Chen, professor of sociology and gender studies, University of Southern California, and author of Taking the Field: Women, Men and Spo