Attain Football And American Identity (Contemporary Sports Issues) (Contemporary Sports Issues) Penned By Gerhard Falk Conveyed As Booklet

seeks to bring together sociology and history to explore football as social institution, He begins by looking at football at the highschool level in chapter one, arguing its an antiintellectual presense which funnels and rewards people towards athletics and away from academics, and creating a culture at an early age that fuels football fandom at higher levels.
Chapter two looks to college football, as it first developed football mass following as something that blue bloods to an activity that people from all backgrounds participate in as college opened up though Id argue that poorer people play the sport more generally.
Chapter three moves to football as a sport of professionals, looking to the long development of professional football, especially the NFL, As it became a sport of mass following, more people participated in it which fueled its growth at the expense of baseball, Chapter four argues that football reflects stratification in society, particularly racial minorities and women, Chapter five looks at the institution of support around the sport, the gate keepers to the players, including charisma of coaches, doctors for care, scouts to find talent, refs to enforce the rules, trainers to build athletic ability, GMs of pro teams to manage talent, and owners to manage the business empires.
Chapter six looks at fan culture, focusing on the Oakland Raiders and college sports, noting violence and hostility towards other fans, Football serves as a catharsis for many men, who are always the hardest fats, Chapter seven looks at football media, particular tv, movies, books, and radio, Chapter eight moves onto the billions of dollars business in colleges, especially bowl games, and the NFL, with the most popular single sports event, the Super Bowl.
Advertising and gambiling also fill here to the total industry, Chapter nine moves to crime and American football, asof all NFL players will be convicted of a major crime, which both reflects the violence encouraged in players and the overenforcing of laws towards black americans, who make up almost two thirds of NFL players.
Chapter ten focuses exclusively on the NFL, as high school and college funnel all talent and culture to reaching this level, It is an economic powerhouse controlled by owners and commissioners, with international ambitions,

Key Themes and Concepts
Football encompasses American values of individuality, achievement amp success, activity, work, material comfort, and efficiency, The ideology of football supposably embrace liberty, freedom,equality, and humanitarianism, even if those often fall well short,
What it actually does how football players out is formed in adolescence as boys, separated from girls, seek escape from school, sexual pressure, peer pressure, identity forming, and parental control.
Men are then made of boys, in theory, but creating a prestige of perceived meritocracy,
Football enforces socioemotion of stability, socialization by introducing values, ideological and political functions as defining Americanism, social mobility, and drawing diverse people together for a common cause.

Learn the value of football to American societyNo sport reflects the American value system like football, Visitors to the United States need only watch a game or two to learn all they need to know about the American way of life and the beliefs, attitudes, and concerns of American society.
Football and American Identity examines the social conditions and cultural implications found in the football subculture, represented by core values such as competition, conflict, diversity, power, economic success, fair play, liberty, and patriotism.
This unique book goes beyond the standard fare on football strategy and history, or the biographies of famous players and coaches, to analyze the reasons why the game is the essence of the American spirit.
Author Gerhard Falk, Professor of Sociology at the State University College of New York at Buffalo, examines football as a game, as a business, and as a reflection of the diversity in American life.
Football and American Identity also addresses the relationship between football and the media, with much of the game's income generated by advertising and endorsements, and examines the presence of crime in football culture.
The book discusses the development of the gameand those involved in itat the Pop Warner, college, and professional levels, examining the social origin of players, coaches, cheerleaders, and owners.
In addition, Football and American Identity analyzes the game's fans and their devotion to "their" teams, examines why Pennsylvania is considered the "mother" of American football, and looks at the National Football League and its commissioners.
Football and American Identity examines: how individualism and achievement can lead to mythological status why a person's occupation is the most important indicator of prestige in the United States what the consequences are of earning more in a year than most Americans make in a lifetime why equality is vital to the ethnic makeup of American football teams why teamwork is importantin football and in industry how freedom is essential for taking the risks necessary for success and much more Football and American Identity is an inside look at football as an American cultural phenomenon.
Devoted and casual

fans of the game, as well as academics working in sociology, will find this unique book interesting, entertaining, and thoughtprovoking, .