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Author Volkwein-Caplan, Karin A. E., 1959-

Title Sport, fitness, culture / Karin A.E. Volkwein-Caplan
Published [Aachen, Germany] : Meyer & Meyer Sport, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Series Sport, culture & society ; vol. 12
Sport, culture & society.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Sociology of Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Chapter 2: Psychology of Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Issue 1 Changing Values and their Impact on Movement Culture; Issue 2 Fitness -- The Global Sport-for-All?; Issue 3 Culture, Aging and Well-Being:; Issue 4 The Paradox of Top-level Sports; Chapter 3: Culture and Values in the 21st Century; Issue 1 Exercise, Health and Life Satisfaction; Issue 2 Physical Activity and the Perceptions of Aging; Issue 3 Obesity -- The Pandemic
Issue 4 The Threat of HIV to the World of Sport?Chapter 4: Health and Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Issue 1 Social and Moral Development through Sport and Physical Activity; Issue 2 Kids, Sport and Peril -- An International Dilemma; Issue 3 The Detrimental Decline of Mandated Physical Education in the United States; Chapter 5: Youth Involvement in Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Issue 1 Racism in US Sport?; Issue 2 Capoeira Angola -- A Symbol of Cultural Resistance and Survival; Chapter 6: Race/Ethnicity and Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity
Issue 1 Sport -- Liberation or Oppression?Issue 2 Equity in Sport through Title IX?; Issue 3 Sexual Harassment of Women in Sport; Issue 4 Homophobia in Women's Sport; Chapter 7: Gender and Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Chapter 8: (Dis- )Ability and Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Issue 1 The Body in the Age of Consumption and Spectatoritis; Issue 2 Eating Disorders in the World of Sport; Issue 3 The Effect of the Media on the Making of the Modern Body; Chapter 9: Body Image and Sport -- Fitness -- Physical Activity; Issue 1 Sport in Unified Germany; Issue 2 Sport as New Religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Sports -- Sociological aspects.
Physical fitness -- Social aspects
Exercise -- Social aspects
Physical education and training -- Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Exercise -- Social aspects
Physical education and training -- Social aspects
Physical fitness -- Social aspects
Sports -- Sociological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782553717
1782553711