After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

Research on identity has grown exponentially within the field of psychology and related
disciplines (1). This increased interest is perhaps unsurprising given that a consideration of …

Drawing on social identity theory and self-categorization theory, we outline an approach to
sport psychology that understands groups not simply as features of sporting contexts but …

This new textbook examines the role that social psychology has in the explanation of
exercise and sport behaviour. It devotes considerable attention to key social psychological …

Sociological explanations both of social life in general and of sport in particular have failed
to take seriously the task of finding an analysis which integrates' social structure','social …

This book is written from the perspective of a social psychologist. As a conse quence, the
topics covered in the upcoming chapters were chosen from among those traditionally of …

The book is organized in 4 parts. Part 1, Sport and modern society, covers the
commercialization and professionalization of what was once amateur play and the …

Against the backdrop of a global physical inactivity crisis, attempts to both understand and
positively influence physical activity behaviours are characterized by a focus on individual …

With some notable exceptions there has been an extraordinary neglect of sport as a social
and cultural phenomenon among the social science and cultural studies communities, who …

Social psychology in sport has grown impressively in the last decade, but no single text has
addressed all the important topics in the field--until now. Through the contributions of an …