Figurational research in sport, leisure and health /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Malcolm, Dominic, 1969- (Editor), Velija, Philippa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Series:Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 106.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to figurational research in sport, leisure and health
  • The development of modern sport : sportization and civilizing processes
  • Game models as a framework for understanding power in the male football figuration
  • "Football fitness" : a quest for excitement or a leisure routinization?
  • The theory of established-outsider relations : understanding gender relations in the cricket figuration
  • The development of mixed martial arts : using the quest for excitement and informalization to understand sportization
  • Doing developmental research as a figurational sociologist : a case study on the long-term sportization of swimming
  • On (not) becoming : involved-detachment and sports "violence"
  • Doing (figurational) research : using semi-structured interviews in the field of public health
  • Figurational research and doping in professional cycling
  • A figurational understanding of sport organizations : the case of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland
  • Sport policy, sports development and figurational sociology
  • Figurational sociological approaches to sport, exercise and health.