ISBN:
9780230523180
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (258 pages)
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DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
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Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Sport and Social Theorists - A Plurality of Perspectives -- 1 The Sportification Process: A Biographical Analysis Framed by the Work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Freud -- 2 Social Structure and Social Theory: The Intellectual Insights of Robert K. Merton -- 3 Reclaiming Goffman: Erving Goffman's Influence on the Sociology of Sport -- 4 Consciousness, Craft, Commitment: The Sociological Imagination of C. Wright Mills -- 5 Theodor Adorno on Sport: The Jeu D'Esprit of Despair -- 6 Antonio Gramsci: Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular -- 7 Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket -- 8 Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory, and Sport and Leisure -- 9 Civilizing Games: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Sport -- 10 Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociological Study of Sport: Habitus, Capital and Field -- 11 Habermas on Sports: Social Theory from a Moral Perspective -- 12 Querying Sport Feminism: Personal or Political? -- 13 Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport -- 14 The Fate of Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard and the Sociology of Sport -- Index.
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