Herausgeber : Jütting, Dieter H.; Schulze, Bernd; Müller, Ulrike

Local Sport in Europe

Although national and international aspects of the global sport system have become more important in the past decades, it is still the local level where most of the sporting activities are realized. The book contains selected papers from the 4th Conference of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport (eass) that was held in Münster, Germany in 2007. The papers cover a great variety of topics that mirror problems and issues of contemporary society, such as violence, racism, gender and health issues, but also current problems of funding and organizational changes in the field of sport