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chapter Introduction Credit: bodrumsurf/Shutterstock.com -- chapter 1 Why we overly value organized, competitive team sport -- chapter 2 Sport's use in teaching obedience to authority and thus complicity with abuse -- chapter 3 Learning to accept, inflict, and enjoy violence and injury -- chapter 4 Head games: Brain injuries and youth sport -- chapter 5 The governance of youth sport: Rights, representation, and consent -- chapter 6 Sport's use in the maintenance of class -- chapter 7 Sport's use in stratifying men -- chapter 8 Sport's use in marginalizing women -- chapter 9 Sport's use in subordinating racial minorities -- chapter 10 Sport's use in excluding, reproducing stereotypes, and othering -- chapter 11 Changing sport.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- A Sociological and Sexological Approach to Bisexuality -- Overview of the Chapters -- 2 Bisexuality: It is Complicated -- Defining Sexuality -- Examining the Components of Sexuality -- Sexual Attraction -- Sexual Repulsion -- Sexual Behavior -- Sexual Identity -- Romantic Love -- Distinguishing Romance from Bromance -- Types of Bisexuality -- 3 Measuring and Surveying Bisexuality -- Measures of Sexual Attraction -- Surveying Bisexuality -- Surveying Bisexuality in Our Research

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation

Overview of the research -- Developing a critique of monogamy -- About the study -- The hardening and softening of men -- The science of sexual attraction -- The development of romantic relationships -- Categorizing monogamy types -- Monogamism -- The monogamy gap -- Costs of monogamism -- Jealousy -- Liberation from monogamous missionary sex -- Prevalence of cheating -- Spontaneous cheating -- Cheating out of love -- Counter currents -- Conclusions

Does social media marketing signal the death of advertising, or its rebirth? Or is it merely the trend of the moment, destined for over-saturation and burnout? The current mania for social media clouds the marketer's vision with both overheated hype and dire predictions, none of which brings us closer to understanding how and why social media has emerged as a driving force in contemporary marketing. The science of game theory provides the toolset for the marketer and the marketing scholar to see past the bubble trends to the deep structure of marketer-consumer relationships. Originally developed to guide Cold-War geopolitical maneuvering, game theory illuminates the conflicting and overlapping interests of marketers and consumers in marketing's long and contentious evolution toward cooperation. Social media marketing is revealed as an evolutionary stage in a movement that began with the Web itself. Its future depends on the decisions marketers make today.

On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, a leading international scholar on masculinities and sport, Eric Anderson, assesses developments in the field by focusing on changing masculinities and homophobia studies within the sociology of sport. Anderson reflects on how early understandings about sport's social roles were anchored in moral panics over homosexuality in companion with the growth of industrialization. In his assessment, Anderson considers how the work of Connell and others on 'hegemonic masculinity' reseated thinking about masculinities and their dynamic in sporting cultures. In response to the challenges of masculinities and homophobia in sport studies, Anderson situates the development of an inclusive masculinity theory that posed that the historical situation and social factors concerning homophobia in sport were beginning to change in ways that serve to secure and broaden understandings of masculinity. Noting research centred in the Western sporting cultures and focusing on white men, Anderson sees future needs for research examining the intersection of decreasing homophobia according to race, geography, age and other confounding variables.

Sport sociology has been intricately tied with the study of masculinities since the early 1990s in the West. The field was first established in exa mining white male athlete's masculinity, particularly noting its root in homophobia in the f orging of a hegemonic form of masculinity. However, contemporary masculinity scholarship shows a changed relationship between men's masculinity and hegemonic dominance. Current research examines men's masculinities in an era of decreased homohysteria, finding teamsport athletes inclusive of homosexuality. This simultaneously permits heterose xual men to live within greatly expanded gender terrains. The challenge for sport s ociologist concerned with masculinities today, is to expand the locus of investigation to t he intersectional demographics of varying races, geographical locations, religious beliefs, a ge and other important demographics.

On the world's most utilised video-sharing social n etworking site, YouTube, Charlie McDonnell ( Charlieissocoollike ), Dan Howell ( Danisnotonfire ), and Jack and Finn Harries ( JacksGap ) are Britain's most popular video-bloggers (vlogge rs). With more than two million regular subscribers to each of their channels, alon g with millions of casual viewers, they represent a new form of authentic online celebrity. These young men, whose YouTube careers began as teenagers, do not espouse a tradit ional form of masculinity; they are not sporty, macho, or even expressly concerned with bei ng perceived as heterosexual. Instead, they present a softer masculinity, eschewing the ho mophobia, misogyny, and aggression attributed to boys of previous generations. These b ehaviours are theorised using Anderson's Inclusive Masculinity Theory. Drawing on analysis o f 115 video-blogs (vlogs), along with an in-depth interview with Charlie McDonnell, this art icle examines how these young men developed and exhibit their inclusive masculinities and attitudes, which we postulate are a reflection of dominant youth culture. Keywords: authenticity, celebrity, inclusive mascul inity, popularity, vlogging, YouTube

This article uses Mark Regnerus' methodologically flawed paper, "How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study," published in the journal Social Science Research (2012) as a catalyst to expose fundamental faults with the existing peer review system in the social sciences. The acceptance of this article has not only been damaging for same-sex equality, but it shows the utility of checks and balances in the current peer review system need improving. This is because: 1) the current system fails to utilize digital technologies of open review which have advanced multiple other scholarly disciplines; 2) the author nomination system facilitates the publication of friendly reviews; 3) anonymity in the review system permits reviewers to promote unchallenged, biased, or personally motivated publication decisions; and 4) impact factors might inspire editors to publish articles that might not otherwise be accepted. After first describing the Regnerus scandal and its political implications, the necessity of improvement in peer review on these four counts is discussed.

In this article I present an analysis of how traditionally run competitive, organized team sports reproduce multiple socionegative effects for youth who play them. After explicating how the structure and culture of traditionally run competitive team sports operates in western cultures, I explain that cultural resistance toward changing sport is beginning to wane. I analyze a consumer-oriented neoliberal approach to transforming these negative outcomes of youth sport through the creation of a new sporting organization, i9 sports. I draw on this example to conclude that structural and cultural changes to youth sport are increasingly viable for at least middle and upper class parents who are critical of traditional sport options and to initiate a conversation about consumer-led social change initiatives in youth sport.