The Sociology of Sports Coaching (Paperback)

Section 1: Background and Context  1. Introduction  Section 2: Sociological Thinkers  2. Erving Goffman: Interaction and Impression Management: Playing the Coaching Role  3. Michel Foucault: Power and Discourse: The ‘Loaded’ Language of Coaching  4. Pierre Bourdieu: A Theory of (Coaching) Practice  5. Arlie Russell Hochschild: The Managed Heart, Feeling Rules, and Emotional Labour: Coaching as an Emotional Endeavour  6. Anthony Giddens: Acknowledging Structure and Individuality within Coaching  7. Niklas Luhmann: Coaching as Communication  8. Etienne Wenger: Coaching and communities of Practice  9. Peter Blau: Exchange, Reciprocity and Dependency: How Coaches and Athletes Rely on each Other  10. Jurgen Habermas: Communicative Action, the System, and the Lifeworld: Critiquing Social Interaction in Coaching   Section 3: Coaching and the Social  11. Power in Coaching  12. Social Interaction in Coaching  13. Coach and Athlete Learning: A Social Approach  14. Conclusion.  References