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Discourses of disability sport: Experiences of elite male and female athletes in Britain and Taiwan [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Disability sport has been a relatively under-researched area within the fields of both sport sociology and disability studies, in particular regarding ...
Huang, Chin-Ju
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Biphobia in sport – Sexual identity and exclusionary practices [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Research in the field of bisexuality has identified that bisexuals experience a unique kind of phobia, in that phobic responses to their sexual preferences ...
Maddocks, Katherine Louise
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FITNESS FOR OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE: REALITY AND PROSPECTS [PDF]
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2023 Fitness sport is aimed at good health, physical and spiritual condition. In this sense, fitness activities are a good opportunity as prevention against immobility and overweight, which is a social and medical problem, a pandemic of the metabolic ...
A. Dimitrova
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Reconsidering feminisms and the work of Norbert Elias for understanding gender, sport and sport-related activities [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 North West Counties Physical Education Association and SAGE Publications.This paper reconsiders the relationships between feminist ...
Mansfield, L, Mansfield, L.
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Researching British university sport initiations [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The study of sport initiations is in its infancy. So far, the North American-centric research has focussed on ‘exposing and condemning’ morally unacceptable
Wintrup, Glen
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The sociological paradox of chess: the transclass distinction of the game of kings
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 The article deals with the sociological paradox of chess. On the one hand, this game gives people who belong to its social world a kind of desirable distinction, but on the other hand this distinction is not connected with the class position.
Krzysztof Olechnicki
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Ampersand, 2020 The research explores the functional distribution of the term ‘feminist’ in the Sociology of Sport. To do this, new conceptual tools from Legitimation Code Theory's (LCT) dimension of Semantics are enacted.
Mark Brooke
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Political Sociology of Sport: The impact of sports and professional athletes on political life [PDF]
سپهر سیاست, 2020 The purpose of the present study is to show how the impact of professional sport as a supporter of the ubiquitous political functions available to social forces affects the different levels of today's political life.
Mehdi Mohammadi aziz abadi +1 more
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Active sport tourism consumption by German private households
Current Issues in Sport Science, 2021 Recent studies on the economic dimensions of sports and physical activity in Germany have revealed that sport-related tourism is one of the important contributors to private household consumption. Due to a lack of representative and large-scale data sets,
Holger Preuss +3 more
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Defamiliarizing Heavy-Contact Sports: A Critical Examination of Rugby, Discipline, and Pleasure [PDF]
, 2009 Pleasure can be regarded as a productive force in the constitution of the social sig-nificance of sport and desiring sport subjects. The organization and use of sport plea-sure has been a relatively marginalized topic of examination.
Pringle, Richard
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