Sport and Modern Social Theorists

AvRichard Giulianotti,Dr Giulianotti, Richard

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport. Social theorists under critical examination include Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Adorno, Gramsci, Habermas, Merton, C.Wright Mills, Goffman, Giddens, Elias, Bourdieu and Foucault. This book will appeal to students and scholars of sport studies, cultural studies, modern social theory, and to social scientists generally.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-07-19
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Upplaga:2004
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333800799

Utforska kategorier

Sportböcker inom Sport, fritid och hobby
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

RICHARD GIULIANOTTI is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Football: A Sociology of the Global Game (1999), and Sport: A Critical Sociology (2004). He is co-editor of numerous books on sport, most recently (with G.Armstrong) Football in Africa (2004) and Fear and Loathing in World Football (2001).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Sport and Social Theorists: A Plurality of Perspectives; R.Giulianotti The Sportification Process: A Biographical Analysis Framed by the Work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Freud; A.G.Ingham Social Structure and Social Theory: Intellectual Insights of Robert K. Merton; J.Loy & D.Booth Reclaiming Goffman: Erving Goffman's Influence on the Sociology of Sport; S.Birrell & P.Donnelly Consciousness, Craft, Commitment: The Sociological Imagination of C. Wright Mills; J.Loy & D.Booth Theodor Adorno on Sport: The Jeu D'Esprit of Despair; D.Inglis Antonio Gramsci: Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular; D.Rowe Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: CLR James and Cricket; B.Stoddart Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory, and Sport and Leisure; J.Horne & D.Jary Civilizing Games: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Sport; R.Giulianotti Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociological Study of Sport: Habitus, Capital and Field; A.Tomlinson Habermas on Sports: Social Theory from a Moral Perspective; W.J.Morgan Querying Sport Feminism: Personal or Political?; J.Hargreaves Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport; C.L.Cole , M.D.Giardina & D.L.Andrews The Fate of Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard and the Sociology of Sport; R.Giulianotti