Sport:a critical sociology
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Published: |
Malden, MA Polity,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford |
Publication Dates: | 2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xvii, 267 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0745625452 (cased) 0745625460 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | G80 |
CLC: | G80-05 |
Call Number: | G80-05/G537 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Durkheimian elements : religion, integration and social order in sport -- Weberian trends : meaning and rationalization in sport -- Marx and neo-Marxists : sport, work, alienation and ideology -- Cultural studies : hegemony theory beyond resistance -- 'Race', ethnicity and intolerance in sport -- Gender identities and sexuality in sport -- The body : discipline, conduct and the pleasures of sport -- Sporting spaces : valuing topophilia -- Elias on sport : the interplay of figurations -- Bourdieu on sport : distinction, symbolic violence and struggle -- The postmodern : premonitions of virtual, post-industrial sport -- Globalization : the politics of 'glocal' sport -- Epilogue : the critical sociology of sport : some recommendations. |