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Sports have taken on tremendous importance in the world in which we live. Their social significance - economic, political, and personal - both nationally and internationally is unprecedented. What may not be so immediately obvious is the sociological nature of sports. Sport offers one of the most visible public arenas for understanding the role that 'immortality' plays in individual action, group... Read more
Introduction 1. Sport in the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2. Theoretical Background 3. Sport as a Social World 4. Fostering the Postself, 5. Experiencing the Postself 6. The Future of Immortality in Sports: A Theoretical Postscript
Biography
Wib Leonard is Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and has served as Faculty Representative to the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He is past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the author of multiple editions of A Sociological Perspective of Sport.
