El deporte en la construcción del espacio social


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El objetivo básico de este libro es analizar el deporte como un dispositivo y un proceso que tienen naturaleza social. Así, el concepto de deporte se ve sometido a una recapitulación de su categoría formal, tradicionalmente más vinculada a la actividad física que a la actividad social. El ejercicio deportivo es una práctica social que está atravesada por mecanismos de asociación y por lenguajes grupales que son autónomos e interdependientes. Y esta constatación se verificó mediante una investigación que recogió datos a través de observación de campo, entrevistas personales y encuestas estadísticas realizadas en Sevilla. Las luchas y convivencias entre los agentes sociales del deporte son representaciones sociales de tensiones y armonías, en un escenario dialéctico donde el Estado, el Mercado y la Sociedad ponen en juego sus aspiraciones, sus recursos y sus variantes capacidades de negociación, dando lugar a un entramado deportivo que evoluciona y cambia socialmente. Uno de los hallazgos más novedosos es el análisis sobre la formación espontánea de las asociaciones deportivas, en un transcurso donde los individuos se constituyen en una comunidad cuyo vínculo aparente es la afición por practicar un determinado juego físico en un espacio socialmente apropiado. Los deportes practicados y el modo en que se practican nos remiten a representaciones de las clases sociales, a distinciones entre los segmentos de una misma clase, que sirven para producir y reproducir relaciones sociales servidas para que los sujetos y los grupos se integren y al mismo tiempo se diferencien.




Immigration and Development


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This book deals with several issues linking immigration and social development. Following several approaches, from economic to sociological ones, it covers the many effects of the rising phenomenon of immigration. It deals with the effects of immigration on economic growth, on human capital accumulation, and on the government budget. Moreover, it also includes contributions on the social integration of immigrants and on the effects they have in some different cities. It covers studies in countries such as Norway, the USA, Romania, and South Africa. The book Immigration and Development is an essential reading for those who want to get a social sciences multidisciplinary approach to immigration as a social phenomenon.




Regeneration through Sport


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This book examines how and why sport in general, and football in particular, entered the country and developed successfully between 1890 and the 1920s, while placing that growth within the context of Spain’s larger historical experience. The introduction of sport in the late 19th century permanently changed the day-to-day lives of thousands of Spaniards. Initially, the country’s growing urban middle-classes embraced the new activity as they built community identities and were introduced to it through economic and educational connections to foreigners. To justify this, these proponents argued that the adoption of physical education and sport would physically regenerate the nation. In response, well-rounded sporting communities grew, developed medical arguments, and even debated the activity’s appropriateness for different groups like women. As sport spread, it produced the first football clubs around the turn of the century. Subsequently, in the 1910s and early 1920s, football established the structural institutions, like stadiums, stars, regulatory bodies, and a press, that enabled its rapid expansion as a mass consumer activity in the late 1920s. Regeneration through Sport looks at how this process embedded the sport within the national culture and established itself as a politically neutral activity before the Spanish Second Republic, allowing it to become almost ubiquitous today. This book will appeal to researchers, students and scholars alike who are interested in the history of sport, Spain, and European history.




Deporte y cambio social en el umbral del siglo XXI


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Sport Clubs in Europe


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​This book presents an up-to-date portrait of the characteristics of sport clubs in various European countries and their role in society and the national sport system. Furthermore, it offers a cross-national comparative perspective of sport clubs in twenty European countries. Containing both empirical data and information on the political and historical backgrounds of sport clubs, the book is organized in three parts. First, the authors provide an overview of the theoretical approach of the book and a description of the framework used for the country chapters. Second, the country chapters, written by experts within the field, provide a systematic overview of the available information on sport clubs in each country. These chapters are structured to answer the following questions: (1) What is the position of sport clubs within the national sport structure? (2) Which role do they fulfil in policy and society? (3) What are their basic characteristics and what factors influence the development of sport clubs? The book is concluded with a systematic comparison of the participating countries with the purpose of forging a clear link between the functioning of policy systems, observed problems, and possible solutions, and with a future research agenda on sport clubs. In an era of increased collaboration between European states, sport provides a natural vehicle through which to compare changes in culture, economics, and policy across nations. Sport Clubs in Europe will appeal to scholars of nonprofit management, sports management and sports sociology as well as administrators and policy makers in the international sports community.







Ideology, Politics and Demands in Spanish Language, Literature and Film


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This book comprises various chapters which explore a variety of topics related to the manner in which ideological and epistemological changes in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries shaped the Spanish language, literature, and film, among other forms of expression, in both Spain and Latin America, and how these media served the purpose of spreading ideas and demands. There are articles on ideological representations of linguistic differences and sameness; linguistic changes associated with loan words and the ideas they bring in modifying our communicative landscape; the role of the Catholic religion on the construction of our dictionary; analysis of some political discourses, ideologies and social imaginaries; new visions of old literature (a return to the parody in the Middle Ages to analyze its moderness) and postmodern narrative; discussions on contemporary Spanish poetry and Central American literature; a new return to the liberation philosophy by analyzing Ellacuría´s work; and several studies about concepts such as capitalism, patriarchy, identity, masculinity, homosexuality, globalization, and the Resistence in several forms of expression.




Las Instalaciones Deportivas en España y su Incidencia en la actividad físico-deportiva de la población


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Este libro trata de analizar la infraestructura deportiva de las Comunidades Autónomas de España, bajo parámetros cuantitativos y cualitativos, en función de los datos obtenidos por el Censo Nacional de Instalaciones Deportivas de 2005 y su relación con la Encuesta Nacional de Hábitos Deportivos




Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America


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In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers adapted or developed strategies as resources for social actors to use for change.