Power and Ideology in American Sport: A Critical PerspectiveThis text looks at American sport from a different perspective - hegemony (a sociopolitical situation in which one way of life is dominant and is diffused throughout various social institutions and cultural practices). |
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Contents
My Sociological Perspective | 9 |
Class Gender and Racial Stratification | 31 |
Gender Stratification | 41 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Power and Ideology in American Sport: A Critical Perspective |
| Author | George Harvey Sage |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Human Kinetics Books, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2009 |
| ISBN | 0873222865, 9780873222860 |
| Length | 248 pages |
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