Eric Dunning

Sport Matters

Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation

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Produktbeschreibung

1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender. Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780415064132
• ISBN-10: 0415064139
• Artikelnr.: 21505465

Autorenporträt

Eric Dunning is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. He is author of a number of works, including Quest for Excitement (1989) and Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 On Problems of the Emotions in Sport and Leisure
Chapter 2 Sport in the Western Civilizing Process
Chapter 3 Sport in Space and Time
Chapter 4 The Development of Soccer as a World Game
Chapter 5 The Dynamics of Sports Consumption
Chapter 6 Soccer Hooliganism as a World Social Problem
Chapter 7 Sports Crowd Violence in North America
Chapter 8 Sport in the Process of Racial Stratification
Chapter 9 Sport, Gender and Civilization
Conclusion