Sociology of Sport and Social Theory

Contributors about equally from sociology and from sport and leisure studies reconsider core theories, mid-range theories, and micro-level theories in sociology as they are applied to various issues in the study of sport. Among their topics are figurational sociology and the sociology of sport, doing auto-ethnography to explore intersections of biography and history, sport and urban development, examining big-time college sport, feminist theory and the study of sport, the role of high school sports in race and school attachment, Tiger Woods and excellence in golf, and McDonald Bailey as a case study of sport and multiple identities in postwar Trinidad. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)