McDermott The War on Drugs in Sport

Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-60793-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

This innovative and compelling work critically examines the relationship between sport, moral regulation and governance from a moral panic theoretical perspective. It argues that doping scandals create a crisis for sport governing bodies and other elite groups, leading to a moral panic, where the issues at stake for them are perceptions of their organizational legitimacy. McDermott also highlights the role of the media as a site where claims to legitimacy are made and contested, contributing to the social construction of a moral panic. The book makes a key contribution to moral panic theory by adapting Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s moral panic model to capture the diversity of interests and complex relationships between elite groups. It will be important reading for all students, researchers and policy-makers interested in sport sociology, moral panic theory, policy work on about governance and regulation, and the relationship between sport and wider society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDermott, Vanessa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Locating Doping, Legitimacy and Moral Panics 2. The IOC and WADA – Legitimacy and a Moral Panic 3. Legitimacy and the Australian Football League Doping 4. Legitimacy, Moral Panics and the Media 5. Legitimacy, Doping and the Grassroots Community 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Vanessa McDermott is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University.