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Discipline and Indulgence

College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War

By: Jeffrey Montez de Oca

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Discipline and Indulgence

College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War

By: Jeffrey Montez de Oca

The early Cold War (1947–1964) was a time of optimism in America. Flushed with confidence by the Second World War, many heralded the American Century and saw postwar affluence as proof that capitalism would solve want and poverty. Yet this period also filled people with anxiety. Beyond the specter of nuclear annihilation, the consumerism and affluence of capitalism’s success were seen as turning the sons of pioneers into couch potatoes. In Discipline and Indulgence, Jeffrey Montez de Oca demonstrates how popular culture, especially college football, addressed capitalism’s contradictions by integrating men into the economy of the Cold War as workers, warriors, and consumers. In the dawning television age, college football provided a ritual and spectacle of the American way of life that anyone could participate in from the comfort of his own home. College football formed an ethical space of patriotic pageantry where men could produce themselves as citizens of the Cold War state. Based on a theoretically sophisticated analysis of Cold War media, Discipline and Indulgence assesses the period’s institutional linkage of sport, higher education, media, and militarism and finds the connections of contemporary sport media to today’s War on Terror.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813561280

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9780813561288

Doping in Elite Sports

Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010

By: Christophe Brissonneau,Jeffrey Montez de Oca

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Doping in Elite Sports

Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010

By: Christophe Brissonneau,Jeffrey Montez de Oca

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The first study to span the period from 1950 to 2010, it sheds new light on the extraordinary world of elite sport in France – a world governed by its own moral standards and defined by extreme expectations of physical performance and highly medicalised training regimes. Including exclusive insights from athletes and their doctors, it explains how the use of drugs became an integral part of training in elite French sport. Considering the complex and paradoxical moral arguments that frame this phenomenon, it explores the decades-long social and political process that resulted in the normalisation of this doping culture. Drawing on examples from cycling, athletics, weightlifting, wrestling and bodybuilding, this book compares doping practices in these sports and questions the effectiveness of anti-doping policies. This is fascinating reading for all those interested in the use of drugs in sports, the ethics and philosophy of sport, or sports history.

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385

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Routledge

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1315523515

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9781315523514

Personal Sociology

Finding Meanings in Everyday Life

By: Jeffrey E. Nash

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Personal Sociology

Finding Meanings in Everyday Life

By: Jeffrey E. Nash

In Personal Sociology: Finding Meanings in Everyday Life, Jeffrey E. Nash transforms everyday experiences into sociological insights and understandings. This book has three parts. Part One illustrates the intersection of meanings in selected settings from the author’s own life such as barbershop quartet singing, wrestling, and how a medical procedure changed his identity. Part Two deals with humor and its intersection with social identities. An analysis of two television sitcoms separated by thirty years reveals how racial identity reflects larger changes in society. Using an indirect approach to teaching sociology to a group of elderly learners, the intersections of gender, race, class, and age are explored and explained through sociological concepts and theories. Part Three explores embedded meanings in local social contexts involving social beliefs and activism. The book concludes by engaging in public sociology through editorial opinion writing.

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179

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793651590

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9781793651594

Christianity, Race, and Sport

By: Jeffrey Scholes

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Christianity, Race, and Sport

By: Jeffrey Scholes

This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United States. Christianity, Race, and Sport examines how Protestant Christianity and race have interacted, often to the detriment of Black bodies, throughout the sporting world over the last century. Important sporting figures and case studies discussed include: the sanctification of baseball player Jackie Robinson; the domestication of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman; religious expressions of athletes in the NFL; treatment of African American tennis player Serena Williams; Colin Kaepernick and his prophetic voice. This accessible and conversational book is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching religion and race or religion and sport for the first time, as well as those working within the sociology of sport, sport studies, history of sport, or philosophy of sport.

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148

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Routledge

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1000380076

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Parkour and the City

Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport

By: Jeffrey L. Kidder

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Parkour and the City

Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport

By: Jeffrey L. Kidder

In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger. Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as “traceurs” or “freerunners”) reject a “daredevil” label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge” ethos normally associated with extreme sports.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813571979

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Discipline and Indulgence

College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War

By: Jeffrey Montez de Oca

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College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War

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Book's by Jeffrey Montez de Oca

Discipline and Indulgence

Discipline and Indulgence

Doping in Elite Sports

Doping in Elite Sports

Personal Sociology

Personal Sociology

Christianity, Race, and Sport

Christianity, Race, and Sport

Parkour and the City

Parkour and the City

Discipline and Indulgence

Discipline and Indulgence

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