Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game (Critical Issues in Sport and Society) - Softcover

Guest, Andrew M.

 
9781978817319: Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1978817312 ISBN 13: 9781978817319
Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self?
 
This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game.
 
As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ANDREW M. GUEST is a professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Portland in Oregon, where he also serves as Director of the Core Curriculum. He has played, coached, researched, taught, and enjoyed soccer in locales ranging from Malawi to Michigan, and from Northern Ireland to northeast Seattle.

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Verlag
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1978817312
ISBN 13 
9781978817319
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
228
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