Crawford, Garry. <br/><br/>
Consuming sport :  fans, sport, and culture / 
Garry Crawford. 
 - x, 182 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p.164-177 ) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415288908 0415288916 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004040950 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports spectators--Social conditions<br/>Sports--Sociological aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV715  / .C73 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/83