Focussing upon the elderly, this article utilises data discovered as researcher for Age Concern in Wigan (U.K.) and examines feelings of older people toward Internet. It explores reasons why some clients volunteers choose to use Internet, whilst others do not, relating these perspectives organisations, alongside broader national EU, commitments reduce digital divide. The argues that elderly Internet usability is based more than availability technology. Instead a lack Web skills among leads...

Sport Policy and Development: An introduction Authors: Daniel Bloyce Andy Smith Publisher: Routledge, London/New York 2009. 212 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-40407-5, £24.99 2009 was an extremely product...

For at least the past three decades, sociology of football and its supporter cultures has been responsive to social issues which have emerged within it. Today, fact that fans rejoice protest overseas purchases their club means time come for research reflect on elite-level English football’s position in a transnational space. In this context, article focuses supporters’ protests connected Liverpool FC, centring Spirit Shankly mobilization, uses Manuel Castells’ theories understand them. The...

Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-ended, affective social movements that broaden support and bypass traditional institutional channels to create change. We extend this work into the field of leisure lifestyle politics with an empirical study Internet-mediated protest movement, Stand Against Modern Football. explain media facilitate transcend longstanding rivalries, engender shared frames unite diverse groups against corporate...

This article explores the relational power and responsibilities to migrant workers on physical infrastructure projects in Qatar connected sovereign state hosting Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2022. Currently, these construction operate under Kafala system, which is upheld Qatar. However, large numbers of Qatar’s visiting were recorded as injured or killed through incidents that related their work. Further still, many other reported poor, unsanitary living...

Collective action and oppositional political activism are firmly established features of any society pose a challenge to inequality, exclusion injustice rooted in the oppression people. Oppressive practices exclusionary policies often catalyst for participation collective generate conscious move towards social, cultural change. Over 100 years ago suffragette movement UK nationalist India employed peaceful tactics (viewed as law breaking) with spectacular outcomes impact which could not have...

This study seeks to understand participation levels in sport across socio-demographic groups, specifically for the period 2008–14, context of austerity measures taken by central government resulting local authority income and expenditure reductions. Participation over time were analysed using data from Active People Survey (APS), which was preferred method measuring Sport England until its replacement 2015. Budgetary constraints authorities have subsequently resulted an decrease...

The article discusses various papers published in this joint special issue corruption sports including one by Gardiner, Parry and Robinson on integrity industry, Lee how Confucian cultural factors contribute to cases, Nowy Breuer match fixing European grassroots football.

This article presents e-zines as both a legitimate data source and basis of investigation for sociologists popular culture. To do this, the describes evaluates rise “fanzine” in 1970s 1980s along with its decline final years 20th century parallels this emergence Internet an “everyday” commodity. The unfolding argument is that provide site construction (collective individual) identities “information age” sports fan democracy.

The UK's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) in 2010, outlined £81 billion of cuts across government departments by 2014/15.The Conservative-Liberal Democrat reform was premised on the 'Big Society' making up for their austere to state.In this piece, we debate impact sports development, taking case study inner city Liverpool.This example is marked because, one

References to “critical social research” have become contested and almost contradictory in recent years, being claimed reclaimed for different purposes with epistemological positi...

It is well established that sport helps to produce and maintain national identities. However, the relationship between football European identities has received only limited attention. This article questions whether assists production of To test this, data were collected from RAOTL e-zine (found at www.raotl.co.uk/), which an Internet messageboard used by Liverpool Football Club supporters. From this data, a random sample consisting 107 days fan comments — over 14-month period was analysed...

The importance of governance in football has been underlined recently by the UK government's cross-party enquiry which, amongst other issues, explored debt levels and ownership patterns football. This article addresses latter these themes exploring 'new directors' ways developing revenue potentially extracting profits from twenty-first century. By embedding argument into discourses about globalisation English Premier League (EPL) that borrow Castells' notion 'network society', I critically...

There are strong grounds upon which it can be argued that the English Premier League holds global appeal. This article carries out a semiotic analysis on role Liverpool FC's Bootle-born defender Jamie Carragher amongst two spatially disparate supporter communities, one principally based in and other Texas. Despite historical influence connection with locally born players, evolving European migration patterns continental football philosophies have limited progression of 'Scouse' players at...

Building on Della Porta’s work social movement events, critical junctures, and legacies, this article studies the discursive practices, emotions networks of instant 48-hour mobilizations anti-European Super League (ESL) in English football April 2021. In doing so, we show how case reveals a new generation conflict between different supporter demographic corporate constituencies that characterize elite England, their politicized temporal structures. Showing ‘legacy’ operates as multifaceted...

The idea that sport has been drawn into helping build a collective identity around the nation-state, particularly in immediate ‘era of independence’ after 1945, is well documented. However, it only recently linked to notions moulding what we term here as ‘pan-European identifications’. It our argument there are two distinctive forms such identification. first posits tangible notion based territories nation-states. Sport assists this process through ‘official’ policies, declarations, reports...

This article explores the establishment and development of fan-owned association football club, F.C. United Manchester. It does this by drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews, observations an analysis multiple texts, such as fanzines, web-based media reports materials discusses using Herbert Blumer’s theory collective behavior. As such, addresses two research questions: first, what empirical case example Manchester offers to critical understanding second, can...

On 14 May 2008 Glasgow Rangers and Zenit St Petersburg contested the UEFA Cup final at City of Manchester Stadium. won match but event was marred by violent clashes between supporters Greater Police’s Tactical Support Group officers in city centre during game. News coverage largely attached blame for disorder upon Rangers’ supporters, however, this article, principally drawing participant observation material supported other relevant literature, will argue that responsibility is diffuse...

This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss issue parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live-streams) in football. is crucial importance sport because English Premier League premised upon sale television rights domestic and overseas markets, yet cheaper alternative endanger price such rights. Evidence drawn from qualitative fieldwork library/Internet sources explore practices supporters politics involved generation broadcasts. enables us clarify...

The English Premier League possesses multiple global dimensions, including its clubs’ economic ownership, player recruitment patterns and television broadcasts of matches. owner Hull City Association Football Club’s rights, Dr Assam Allam, announced plans to re-name the club ‘Hull Tigers’ in an attempt re-orientate towards seemingly lucrative East Asian, specifically Chinese, markets 2013. This article, first, draws upon Manuel Castells’ work Rise Network Society critically discuss logic...