Ivan Waddington
Biographic Data
| ID | 245475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Waddington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Waddington |
| SIGNATURE | WADDINGTON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5311-9967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England
Association football is a lucrative sport with high financial rewards for top players. However, there has been little empirical work on the lifestyles of professional footballers. Based on interviews with 29 current and former male professional footballers, this paper examines the relationship between money, status and image management within and outside the changing room. The concept of conspicuous consumption is used to help explain players' at…
The social management of medical ethics in sport: Confidentiality in English professional football
This paper examines one of the major ethical challenges in the practice of sports medicine, confidentiality. Drawing on interview and questionnaire data with doctors and physiotherapists working in English professional football clubs, it explores the degree to which ethical compliance has improved since the publication of, and publicity surrounding, an earlier study of medical practice in professional football conducted by Waddington and Roderick…
On being 'head strong: The pain zone and concussion in non-elite rugby union
In recent years there has been growing concern about concussion in sport in general and rugby union in particular. The qualitative study reported here draws on interviews ( n=20) with adult players in non-elite club rugby union in Ireland in order to explore the frames of reference within which they perceive, give meaning to and manage concussion. Within a sporting subculture which emphasizes lay sporting values - particularly the value of 'playi…
Health and Sport
There is widespread acceptance of the idea that sport is good for health. The ideology linking sport and health has a long history, and the promotion and maintenance of the health of schoolchildren has long been an area of concern to physical educators in many countries. However, almost all the studies cited to support the idea that sport is good for health refer not to sport but to physical activity or exercise. Physical activity and sport are n…
Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport
Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport. Shocking cases such as that of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal cycling team have exposed the complicated relationships between athletes, teams, physicians, sports governing bodies, drugs providers, and judicial systems, all locked in a constant struggle for competitive advantage. The Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport is simply the most comprehensive a…
Doing Real World Research in Sports Studies
Traditional research methods textbooks tend to present an idealized and simplistic picture of the research process. This ground-breaking text however, features leading international sport researchers explaining how they actually carried out their real life research projects, highlighting the practical day-to-day problems, false starts and setbacks that are a normal part of the research process. This book focuses on ten pieces of research that hav…
Issues and problems in the organization of children’s sport: A case study of Norway
The focus of this article is on the organization of children’s sport in Norway. More specifically, the paper sets out to examine (i) the changing pattern of relationships, and in particular the changing balance of conflict and cooperation, between the several organizations with responsibility for children’s sport, and (ii) how sport for children is regulated in order to protect children against the dangers associated with competitive pressures, o…
An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning
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An Introduction to Drugs in Sport
Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. It offers a critical overview of the major theories of drug use …
No systematic doping in football’: A critical review
This essay examines the degree to which football administrators are correct to believe that there is relatively little use of performance‐enhancing drugs in elite football. In contrast to FIFA’s reliance on the results of drug testing as a means of gauging this phenomenon, this essay attempts to triangulate the evidence from the broader spectrum of sources of information about drug use in sport. Though meaningful and accurate data on the use of s…
The Establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Study of the Management of Organizational Change and Unplanned Outcomes
This article examines the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which was established following the World Conference on Doping in Sport convened by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and held in Lausanne in 1999. More specifically, the article draws upon Elias's game models to analyse: i) the way in which the IOC sought to manage this process of change in such a way that its longstanding positi…
Health and Sport
There is widespread acceptance of the idea that “sport is good for health.” The ideology linking sport and health has a long history and the promotion and maintenance of the health of schoolchildren has long been an area of concern to physical educators in Europe and America
Pain and Injury in Sport: Social and Ethical Analysis
Doctors and Physiotherapists in Elite English Rugby Union Dominic Malcolm 11 Ethical Problems in the Medical Management of Sports Injuries: a Case Study of English Professional Football Ivan Waddington 12 The Ontology of Sports Injuries and Professional Medical Ethics Yotam Lurie 13 The Role of Injury in the Organization of Paralympic Sport P. David Howe Section V The Meaning of Pain and Injury 14 Suffering in and for Sport: Some Philosophical Re…
Alternative sport programmes and social inclusion in Norway
This article examines the ‘alternative’ sport and physical activities provided by the Sports City Programme (SCP) in Norway, which are designed to attract more young people (especially inactive young people) to take part in physical activities. In particular, it examines whether these ‘alternative’ sports have been more successful than conventional sports in breaking down class and gender-based barriers to participation. The data indicate that th…
Abuse, Intimidation and Violence as Aspects of Managerial Control in Professional Soccer in Britain and Ireland
Using semi-structured tape-recorded interviews, this study focuses on the ways in which managers maintain control over players in professional soccer clubs. More specifically, the article focuses on the ways in which disciplinary codes are established by managers and the sanctions that are imposed on players for breaches of club discipline. The findings highlight the arbitrary character of these codes and the central part played by intimidation a…
Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s
The objective of this paper is systematically to examine evidence relating to the prevalence and the changing patterns of drug use in British sport in the period from the 1960s to the present. There are four major sources of information about the prevalence of drug use among athletes: investigative journalism, including the writings and testimonials of athletes and others involved in sport; formal investigations, which may have legal or quasi-leg…
Using ‘sport in the community schemes’ to tackle crime and drug use among young people: Some policy issues and problems
This article seeks, first, to offer some critical comments on the policy issues and problems surrounding the use of sporting schemes as vehicles of social policy in which the intention is to reduce levels of crime, delinquency and drug ‘abuse’ among young people; second, to examine a point of fundamental importance in policy terms: do such schemes work? In this regard, it is claimed that relatively few of such schemes - which are largely premised…
Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon
Sport as a Drug and Drugs in Sport: Some Exploratory Comments
This article seeks, first, to suggest that relations between 'drug users' and members of the wider society have many of the features of an 'established-outsider' figuration as defined by Elias; second, to examine aspects of the complex interrelationships between sport and the consumption of alcohol. In this regard, reference is made to the long-standing Epicurean/Dionysian and Stoical/Puritanical conceptions of sport and to the consumption of alc…
Jobs for the Boys? A Study of the Employment of Club Doctors and Physiotherapists in English Professional Football
Using a mixture of semi-structured tape-recorded interviews and postal questionnaires, this article examines aspects of the employment of club doctors and physiotherapists in English professional football clubs, with particular emphasis on the methods of appointment, experience and qualifications of club medical staff. It is argued that the process of appointing club doctors and physiotherapists constitutes a catalogue of poor employment practice…
Sport, Health, and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective
Sport and Health: A Sociological Perspective
Figurational Sociology and its Application to Sport
Sport, Health and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective
Sport may teach people how to win gracefully, but it may also teach them how to win at any cost, even if this involves violence or cheating. To understand the complex relationship between modern sport and other aspects of society, it is necessary to strip away our preconceptions of how sport ought to operate and to examine, in as detached a manner as possible, the way in which sport really operates. Particular issues examined include: Sport, heal…
The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change
(2000). The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty‐First Centu, pp. 129-143
Playing Hurt: Managing Injuries in English Professional Football
Professional football is, in terms of the risk of injury, a high-risk occupation. The objects of this study are to examine the ways in which professional footballers respond to and cope with injury and, in this context, we focus on the culture of 'playing hurt' in football. The study involved semi-structured interviews with former and current professional footballers as well as interviews with club doctors and physiotherapists. The interviews foc…
Using ‘sport in the community schemes’ to tackle crime and drug use among young people: Some policy issues and problems
This article seeks, first, to offer some critical comments on the policy issues and problems surrounding the use of sporting schemes as vehicles of social policy in which the intention is to reduce levels of crime, delinquency and drug ‘abuse’ among young people; second, to examine a point of fundamental importance in policy terms: do such schemes work? In this regard, it is claimed that relatively few of such schemes - which are largely premised…
Sport as a Drug and Drugs in Sport: Some Exploratory Comments
This article seeks, first, to suggest that relations between 'drug users' and members of the wider society have many of the features of an 'established-outsider' figuration as defined by Elias; second, to examine aspects of the complex interrelationships between sport and the consumption of alcohol. In this regard, reference is made to the long-standing Epicurean/Dionysian and Stoical/Puritanical conceptions of sport and to the consumption of alc…
The Development of Sports Medicine
The development of sports medicine can be understood in terms of a conjuncture involving processes of medicalization and the increasing competitiveness of modern sport. It is also suggested that the growing involvement of sports physicians in the search for championship-winning performances has led them not only to develop improved mechanical and psychological techniques, but also to play an active part in the development of performance-enhancing…
Gender Stereotyping and Physical Education
This paper presents the findings of a survey of physical education (PE) teachers, the central object of which was to examine teachers' involvement in, and attitudes towards, the teaching of the six areas of activity contained in the National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE). A total of 207 questionnaires was issued to heads of departments and teachers of PE in secondary schools in the county of Nottinghamshire in England, of which 84 were…
Managing social change: A process-sociological approach to understanding organisational change within the National Health Service
Using the implementation of the Griffiths Report as an example, this paper examines the way in which sociologists and others have examined the process of managing change within the NHS. Several studies of Griffiths have documented a number of unintended consequences of its implementation but it is argued that none of these have adequately theorised these unintended outcomes of the policy implementation process. It is suggested that the process-so…
The Establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Study of the Management of Organizational Change and Unplanned Outcomes
This article examines the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which was established following the World Conference on Doping in Sport convened by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and held in Lausanne in 1999. More specifically, the article draws upon Elias's game models to analyse: i) the way in which the IOC sought to manage this process of change in such a way that its longstanding positi…
Abuse, Intimidation and Violence as Aspects of Managerial Control in Professional Soccer in Britain and Ireland
Using semi-structured tape-recorded interviews, this study focuses on the ways in which managers maintain control over players in professional soccer clubs. More specifically, the article focuses on the ways in which disciplinary codes are established by managers and the sanctions that are imposed on players for breaches of club discipline. The findings highlight the arbitrary character of these codes and the central part played by intimidation a…
On being 'head strong: The pain zone and concussion in non-elite rugby union
In recent years there has been growing concern about concussion in sport in general and rugby union in particular. The qualitative study reported here draws on interviews ( n=20) with adult players in non-elite club rugby union in Ireland in order to explore the frames of reference within which they perceive, give meaning to and manage concussion. Within a sporting subculture which emphasizes lay sporting values - particularly the value of 'playi…
The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change
(2000). The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty‐First Centu, pp. 129-143
The Role of the Hospital in the Development of Modern Medicine: A Sociological Analysis
Basic and far-reaching innovations in the structure of medical knowledge were made in Paris in the early part of the nineteenth century. In order to explore the social basis of these innovations, attention is focused on the development of hospitals in Paris, and the way in which this development was associated with the emergence of the doctor as the dominant figure in the doctor-patient relationship. This type of relationship is contrasted with t…
Sport, Health and Physical Education: A Reconsideration
This paper seeks to: (i) outline and critically evaluate the widely accepted idea that exercise and sport are beneficial for health; (ii) examine the different patterns of social relations associated with exercise and sport; (iii) examine some of the health consequences of these social differences; and (iv) explore the implications of this analysis for physical education. No simple generalisations can adequately encapsulate the complexity of the …
Alternative sport programmes and social inclusion in Norway
This article examines the ‘alternative’ sport and physical activities provided by the Sports City Programme (SCP) in Norway, which are designed to attract more young people (especially inactive young people) to take part in physical activities. In particular, it examines whether these ‘alternative’ sports have been more successful than conventional sports in breaking down class and gender-based barriers to participation. The data indicate that th…
Anthropological versus Sociological Approaches to the Study of Soccer Hooliganism: Some Critical Notes
It is argued that the anthropological approach, as used by Armstrong and Harris, has not generated any breakthrough in the study of soccer hooliganism. In particular, it is suggested that their use of a commonsense rather than a sociological concept of violence vitiates their analysis in several ways, contributing above all to substantial inconsistencies between some of their own empirical data and their general conclusions concerning levels of s…
Issues and problems in the organization of children’s sport: A case study of Norway
The focus of this article is on the organization of children’s sport in Norway. More specifically, the paper sets out to examine (i) the changing pattern of relationships, and in particular the changing balance of conflict and cooperation, between the several organizations with responsibility for children’s sport, and (ii) how sport for children is regulated in order to protect children against the dangers associated with competitive pressures, o…
Research note: Surveying the social composition of football crowds
(1996). Research note: surveying the social composition of football crowds. Leisure Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 209-214
Sporting celebrity and conspicuous consumption: A case study of professional footballers in England
Association football is a lucrative sport with high financial rewards for top players. However, there has been little empirical work on the lifestyles of professional footballers. Based on interviews with 29 current and former male professional footballers, this paper examines the relationship between money, status and image management within and outside the changing room. The concept of conspicuous consumption is used to help explain players' at…
Jobs for the Boys? A Study of the Employment of Club Doctors and Physiotherapists in English Professional Football
Using a mixture of semi-structured tape-recorded interviews and postal questionnaires, this article examines aspects of the employment of club doctors and physiotherapists in English professional football clubs, with particular emphasis on the methods of appointment, experience and qualifications of club medical staff. It is argued that the process of appointing club doctors and physiotherapists constitutes a catalogue of poor employment practice…
The social management of medical ethics in sport: Confidentiality in English professional football
This paper examines one of the major ethical challenges in the practice of sports medicine, confidentiality. Drawing on interview and questionnaire data with doctors and physiotherapists working in English professional football clubs, it explores the degree to which ethical compliance has improved since the publication of, and publicity surrounding, an earlier study of medical practice in professional football conducted by Waddington and Roderick…
The Social Composition of Football Crowds in Western Europe: A Comparative Study
This paper reviews studies of football fans that were carried out in England, Scotland, Spain, France, Belgium and Austria. The object of these studies was to discover details about the age, sex, occupations and ethnic backgrounds of fans. The data indicated that the fans were predominantly young and male, but that the game's appeal was not limited to particular occupational groups. No clear pattern could be identified according to ethnicity
Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s
The objective of this paper is systematically to examine evidence relating to the prevalence and the changing patterns of drug use in British sport in the period from the 1960s to the present. There are four major sources of information about the prevalence of drug use among athletes: investigative journalism, including the writings and testimonials of athletes and others involved in sport; formal investigations, which may have legal or quasi-leg…
The Role of the Hospital in the Development of Modern Medicine: A Sociological Analysis
Basic and far-reaching innovations in the structure of medical knowledge were made in Paris in the early part of the nineteenth century. In order to explore the social basis of these innovations, attention is focused on the development of hospitals in Paris, and the way in which this development was associated with the emergence of the doctor as the dominant figure in the doctor-patient relationship. This type of relationship is contrasted with t…
The Sociology of Science
The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London . M. Jeanne Peterson
The Medical Profession and the Industrial Revolution
Banking on Sickness: Commercial Medicine in Britain and the USA (Book)
Anthropological versus Sociological Approaches to the Study of Soccer Hooliganism: Some Critical Notes
It is argued that the anthropological approach, as used by Armstrong and Harris, has not generated any breakthrough in the study of soccer hooliganism. In particular, it is suggested that their use of a commonsense rather than a sociological concept of violence vitiates their analysis in several ways, contributing above all to substantial inconsistencies between some of their own empirical data and their general conclusions concerning levels of s…
The Development of Sports Medicine
The development of sports medicine can be understood in terms of a conjuncture involving processes of medicalization and the increasing competitiveness of modern sport. It is also suggested that the growing involvement of sports physicians in the search for championship-winning performances has led them not only to develop improved mechanical and psychological techniques, but also to play an active part in the development of performance-enhancing…
Research note: Surveying the social composition of football crowds
(1996). Research note: surveying the social composition of football crowds. Leisure Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 209-214
Managing social change: A process-sociological approach to understanding organisational change within the National Health Service
Using the implementation of the Griffiths Report as an example, this paper examines the way in which sociologists and others have examined the process of managing change within the NHS. Several studies of Griffiths have documented a number of unintended consequences of its implementation but it is argued that none of these have adequately theorised these unintended outcomes of the policy implementation process. It is suggested that the process-so…
Sport, Health and Physical Education: A Reconsideration
This paper seeks to: (i) outline and critically evaluate the widely accepted idea that exercise and sport are beneficial for health; (ii) examine the different patterns of social relations associated with exercise and sport; (iii) examine some of the health consequences of these social differences; and (iv) explore the implications of this analysis for physical education. No simple generalisations can adequately encapsulate the complexity of the …
Sport for all: Some public health policy issues and problems
This paper has two central objectives: (1) to examine critically the assumption underlying a central objective of many ‘Sport for all’ programmes, namely to improve people's health; (2) to illustrate, via the use of two recent British case studies, some of the complexities involved in the administration of sports policy and in coordinating sports policy with health policy. It is argued that almost all the studies which are cited to support the id…
Gender Stereotyping and Physical Education
This paper presents the findings of a survey of physical education (PE) teachers, the central object of which was to examine teachers' involvement in, and attitudes towards, the teaching of the six areas of activity contained in the National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE). A total of 207 questionnaires was issued to heads of departments and teachers of PE in secondary schools in the county of Nottinghamshire in England, of which 84 were…
The Social Composition of Football Crowds in Western Europe: A Comparative Study
This paper reviews studies of football fans that were carried out in England, Scotland, Spain, France, Belgium and Austria. The object of these studies was to discover details about the age, sex, occupations and ethnic backgrounds of fans. The data indicated that the fans were predominantly young and male, but that the game's appeal was not limited to particular occupational groups. No clear pattern could be identified according to ethnicity
Sport and Health: A Sociological Perspective
Figurational Sociology and its Application to Sport
Sport, Health and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective
Sport may teach people how to win gracefully, but it may also teach them how to win at any cost, even if this involves violence or cheating. To understand the complex relationship between modern sport and other aspects of society, it is necessary to strip away our preconceptions of how sport ought to operate and to examine, in as detached a manner as possible, the way in which sport really operates. Particular issues examined include: Sport, heal…
The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change
(2000). The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty‐First Centu, pp. 129-143
Playing Hurt: Managing Injuries in English Professional Football
Professional football is, in terms of the risk of injury, a high-risk occupation. The objects of this study are to examine the ways in which professional footballers respond to and cope with injury and, in this context, we focus on the culture of 'playing hurt' in football. The study involved semi-structured interviews with former and current professional footballers as well as interviews with club doctors and physiotherapists. The interviews foc…
Jobs for the Boys? A Study of the Employment of Club Doctors and Physiotherapists in English Professional Football
Using a mixture of semi-structured tape-recorded interviews and postal questionnaires, this article examines aspects of the employment of club doctors and physiotherapists in English professional football clubs, with particular emphasis on the methods of appointment, experience and qualifications of club medical staff. It is argued that the process of appointing club doctors and physiotherapists constitutes a catalogue of poor employment practice…
Sport, Health, and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective
Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon
Sport as a Drug and Drugs in Sport: Some Exploratory Comments
This article seeks, first, to suggest that relations between 'drug users' and members of the wider society have many of the features of an 'established-outsider' figuration as defined by Elias; second, to examine aspects of the complex interrelationships between sport and the consumption of alcohol. In this regard, reference is made to the long-standing Epicurean/Dionysian and Stoical/Puritanical conceptions of sport and to the consumption of alc…
Using ‘sport in the community schemes’ to tackle crime and drug use among young people: Some policy issues and problems
This article seeks, first, to offer some critical comments on the policy issues and problems surrounding the use of sporting schemes as vehicles of social policy in which the intention is to reduce levels of crime, delinquency and drug ‘abuse’ among young people; second, to examine a point of fundamental importance in policy terms: do such schemes work? In this regard, it is claimed that relatively few of such schemes - which are largely premised…
Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s
The objective of this paper is systematically to examine evidence relating to the prevalence and the changing patterns of drug use in British sport in the period from the 1960s to the present. There are four major sources of information about the prevalence of drug use among athletes: investigative journalism, including the writings and testimonials of athletes and others involved in sport; formal investigations, which may have legal or quasi-leg…
Pain and Injury in Sport: Social and Ethical Analysis
Doctors and Physiotherapists in Elite English Rugby Union Dominic Malcolm 11 Ethical Problems in the Medical Management of Sports Injuries: a Case Study of English Professional Football Ivan Waddington 12 The Ontology of Sports Injuries and Professional Medical Ethics Yotam Lurie 13 The Role of Injury in the Organization of Paralympic Sport P. David Howe Section V The Meaning of Pain and Injury 14 Suffering in and for Sport: Some Philosophical Re…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · Law (21 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (19 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (16 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Doping in Sports (13 works) · Football (12 works)