Sportsmanship ─ Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Scholars working in sociology, psychology, economics, education, kinesiology, and applied athletics in North America and Europe provide 25 essays that consider aspects of sportsmanship from multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. They address good and poor sportsmanship, doping and cheating, ethics and character formation in sports, and sports, leisure, and recreation in prison; learning about sportsmanship in youth sports and physical education, as well as the role of cognitive psychology, applied sportsmanship, ideals of sportsmanship in history, the Irish in sport, sportsmanship in golf and Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, and the perspectives of coaches, athletes, and referees; and gender, economics, race and ethnicity, and the media, including film and sports journalism, and the impact of professionalism and commercialization. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Tim Delaney is a professor and department chair of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego. He sponsors an annual sportsmanship day symposium and recently co-created a sports studies program at his university. He lives in Auburn, New York.