ISBN:
9781138777552
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (262 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions Sports Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (RLE Sports Studies)
DDC:
306.480941
Keywords:
Leisure -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈P〉When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure activities to a more central position within the sociological enterprise. Whether amateur or professional, sport contributes to wider relations of power, privilege and domination and this debate represents an important phase in the sociology of sport and leisure. 〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The sociological analysis of sport and leisure; The changing work/leisure balance in Britain: 1961-1984; Men and women at play: gender, life cycle and leisure; The Figurational Sociology ofSport and Leisure of Elias andDunning: an exposition and acritique; Leisure, symbolic power andthe life course; The body, sport and powerrelations; 'Boys muscle in where angels fear to tread' - girls' sub-cultures and physical activities
Description / Table of Contents:
The exploitation of disadvantage:the occupational sub-culture ofthe boxerThe politics of women's leisure; Leisure, the state and collectiveconsumption
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
