Immortality in Sports.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Sport in the Social and Behavioral Sciences -- Defining Sociology and Sociologists -- Wedding Sociology and Sport: The Sociology of Sport -- What Is a Sociological Perspective of Sport? -- Symbolic Immortality and the Postself -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Background -- The Postself -- Symbolic Immortality -- Biological Mode -- Religious or Spiritual Mode -- Mystic or Experiential Mode -- Natural Mode -- Creative Mode -- Chapter 3: Sport as a Social World -- Chapter 4: Fostering the Postself -- The Values Promoted by the Ideology of Sport: "Citius, Altius, and Fortius" -- Opportunity for Role-Support -- Engrossment Through Participation and Communication -- Comparison Through Measurement and Records -- Recognition Through Awards and Commemorative Devices -- Chapter 5: Experiencing the Postself -- Illustrations of the Creative Mode of Athletic Achievement -- Illustrations of Negative Role-Identity -- Illustrations of Expansiveness -- Illustrations of Deep Emotion -- Collective Memory as Locus of Symbolic Immortality and the Postself -- Chapter 6: The Future of Immortality in Sports: A Theoretical Postscript -- Social Change and Postmodern Society -- Appendix-Research Methodology: A Qualitative Inquiry -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

A sociological account of sport using the idea of the 'postself' - how individuals regard themselves and want to be remembered by the public.

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