Consuming sport : fans, sport, and culture /
Crawford, Garry.
Consuming sport : fans, sport, and culture / Garry Crawford. - x, 182 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.164-177 ) and index.
Introduction -- Conceptualizing sport fans -- Sport fan communities -- The meaning of the contemporary sport venue -- Consumption, spectacle and performance -- Social control and supporter violence -- Sport fans and everyday life -- Consumer goods -- Mass media and new media technologies -- Conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course."--BOOK JACKET.
0415288908 0415288916 (pbk.)
2004040950
Sports spectators--Social conditions
Sports--Sociological aspects
GV715 / .C73 2004
306.4/83
Consuming sport : fans, sport, and culture / Garry Crawford. - x, 182 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.164-177 ) and index.
Introduction -- Conceptualizing sport fans -- Sport fan communities -- The meaning of the contemporary sport venue -- Consumption, spectacle and performance -- Social control and supporter violence -- Sport fans and everyday life -- Consumer goods -- Mass media and new media technologies -- Conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course."--BOOK JACKET.
0415288908 0415288916 (pbk.)
2004040950
Sports spectators--Social conditions
Sports--Sociological aspects
GV715 / .C73 2004
306.4/83