Sport and modern social theorists /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Giulianotti, Richard, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Sport and social theorists - a plurality of perspectives / Richard Giulianotti
  • The sportification process : a biographical analysis framed by the work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Freud / Alan G. Ingham
  • Social structure and social theory : the intellectual insights of Robert K. Merton / John Loy and Douglas Booth
  • Reclaiming Goffman : Erving Goffman's influence on the sociology of sport / Susan Birrell and Peter Donnelly
  • Consciousness, craft, commitment : the sociological imagination of C. Wright Mills / John Loy and Douglas Booth
  • Thoedor Adorno on sport : the jeu d'esprit of despair / David Inglis
  • Antonio Gramsci : sport, hegemony and the national-popular / David Rowe
  • Sport, colonialism and struggle : C.L.R. James and cricket / Brian Stoddart
  • Anthony Giddens : structuration theory, and sport and leisure / John Horne and David Jary
  • Civilizing games : Norbert Elias and the sociology of sport / Richard Giulianotti
  • Pierre Bourdieu and the sociological study of sport : habitus, capital and field / Alan Tomlinson
  • Habermas on sports : social theory from a moral perspective / William J. Morgan
  • Querying sport feminism : personal or political? / Jennifer Hargreaves
  • Michel Foucault : studies of power and sport / C.L. Cole, Michael D. Giardina and David L. Andrews
  • The fate of hyperreality : Jean Baudrillard and the sociology of sport / Richard Giulianotti.