ISBN:
9780415077033
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (280 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sport and Leisure in Social Thought
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure. Also shows how sport has contributed to our understanding of such themes as globalization and nationalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Sport and leisure in social thought; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sport and leisure in social thought; 1 Functionalism, solidarity and social stratification; The social functions of sport and leisure practices; The division of labour: From mechanical to organic solidarity and the making of modern sports and societies; Suicide, the elementary forms of religious life and the sports phenomenon; Stratification, sport and leisure practices and social mobility; Concluding thoughts
Description / Table of Contents:
2 Interpretative sociology: Rationalisation, cultural pessimism and the search for meaningSimmel, sedation and the societal labyrinth; Social geometry, conflict, space and the metropolis; The philosophy of money, leisure and modernity; Weber, verstehen, ideal types and historical sociology; Rationalisation and body cultures; Art, music and styles of life: Seeking solace in aestheticism; Concluding thoughts; 3 Beyond conventional pluralism; A sociology of competing interest groups; Neo-liberals, democracy and the market place; Modernisation, industrialisation and social evolution
Description / Table of Contents:
From conventional to critical pluralismConcluding thoughts; 4 Classical Marxism, political economy and beyond; A contribution to the critique of political economy; Alienation and the division of labour; Ideology, political consciousness and class formation; Marxism after Marx; Concluding thoughts; 5 Culture as a war of position and a way of life; Gramsci's Italy, economism and a rejection of Marxism; Hegemony and the forces of coercion and consent; The working class on two wheels; Beyond the border country; Concluding thoughts; 6 Figurations, power and civilising processes
Description / Table of Contents:
Sportisation and the making of modern sport and leisureEmbodied emotions, pleasure and leisure in the spare-time spectrum; Sport, leisure and globalisation processes: Diminishing contrasts and increasing varieties; Concluding thoughts; 7 Feminist thought and the boundaries of sisterhood; Biology, bodies and femininity; Different paths to emancipation; Gender, bureaucracy and organisational elites; Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood; Postmodern feminism; Concluding thoughts; 8 Fields of power, habitus and distinction; Sport practices, habitus and the body
Description / Table of Contents:
Sport, social fields and class relationsLeisure, lifestyle and distinction; Concluding thoughts; 9 Beyond modernity and the problems of postmodernism; Ancient sport symbols, nostalgia, and postmodernism; Scarcity, seriousness and the elevation of play; Disneyland, hyper-reality and deconstruction; Concluding thoughts; 10 Dependency and globalisation: Sport, leisure and global processes; Dependency and sport: Domination and resistance; Globalisation and the global sports/leisure process; Concluding thoughts; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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