Graham Scambler

A Critical Realist Theory of Sport (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000815337
• Artikelnr.: 66884468

Autorenporträt

Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College London and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University. Recent books include Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account (2018); A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders (2020); and Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community (with Tjora, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Critical Realist Theory of Sport

1. The Case for a Revised Sociology of Sport

2. A Critical Realist Frame

3. From Hyper-rationalisation to the Fractured Society

4. Global System versus Local Lifeworld

5. A Case Study: Rugby as 'Tribal Warfare'

6. Sociology and Sport in the Fractured Society