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Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach

Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Sports GeneralGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0415522412
ISBN13: 9780415522410
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 12 2012
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, the book offers a new interpretive model through which to understand the Olympic Games by exploring the relationship between the Games and residents of the host city. Key analytical concepts such as framing, dramaturgy, the public realm, and the symbolic field are introduced and illustrated through empirical research from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, and it is shown how the social media and shifts in public opinion reflected interaction effects within the city. By filling a clear lacuna in the Olympic Studies canon, this book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, urban studies, event studies or urban sociology.

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