1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459585003321

Autore

Clotfelter Charles T.

Titolo

Big-time sports in American universities / / Charles T. Clotfelter [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22098-X

1-139-06380-4

1-283-11271-X

1-139-07618-3

9786613112712

1-139-08301-5

1-139-07847-X

1-139-08074-1

0-511-97690-9

1-139-07046-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

796.04/30973

Soggetti

College sports - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Commercial sports as a university function. Strange bedfellows -- Priorities -- The bigness of "big time" -- The uses of big-time college sports. Consumer good, mass obsession -- Commercial enterprise -- Institution builder -- Beacon for campus culture -- Reckoning. Ends and means -- Prospects for reform.

Sommario/riassunto

For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated and athletic budgets have ballooned. Drawing on new research findings, this book takes a fresh look at the role of commercial sports in American universities. It shows that, rather



than being the inconsequential student activity that universities often imply that it is, big-time sport has become a core function of the universities that engage in it. For this reason, the book takes this function seriously and presents evidence necessary for a constructive perspective about its value. Although big-time sport surely creates worrying conflicts in values, it also brings with it some surprising positive consequences.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996276650403316

Titolo

Psychologica Belgica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Louvain], : [Société belge de psychologie]

ISSN

2054-670X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

150/.5

Soggetti

Psychology

Psychologie

Periodicals.

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

"Annales de la Société belge de psychologie."

Refereed/Peer-reviewed