Books by Grant Jarvie

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? This work challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions.

This introduction to sociological theory and the sociology of sport and leisure attempts to capture the breadth of sociological thinking about sport and leisure. It shows how sport and leisure have contributed to our understanding of contemporary sociological themes.