New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'

<p>The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence drug taking racism homophobia misogyny corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.</p><p>In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport.</p><p><em>New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance'</em> awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.</p>