The social psychology of watching sports: From ilium to living room

Peter B. Crabb; Jeffrey H. Goldstein

doi:10.4324/9780203812181

The social psychology of watching sports: From ilium to living room

Peter B. Crabb, Jeffrey H. Goldstein

Penn State Hazleton

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Abstract

The division of labor in Western sports has usually, but not always, fallen loose ly into two roles, player-contestants and spectators. The historical course of spec tator roles and changes (if any) in the behavior of spectators indicates that sports spectatorship appeared about 5,000 years ago in the cosmopolitan cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East. In this chapter, we explore the development of spectatorship through the ages, report on recent empirical investigations into the social psychology of watching sports, and make some speculations about the func tion of sports in everyday life, especially as sports enters interpersonal transac tions and conversation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Responding to the Screen
Subtitle of host publication	Reception and Reaction Processes
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	355-372
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136690914
ISBN (Print)	0805800336, 9780805800333
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203812181
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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