Understanding Sport: An Introduction to the Sociological and Cultural Analysis of SportBringing a cultural and social dimension to the study of sport, this introductory guide will help students understand the context of sport and the place it has in the lives of individuals as well as in modern British society as a whole. Theoretically rigorous yet accessible, Understanding Sport includes:
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Contents
Industrial society social change | 1 |
The characteristics of preindustrial and modern sports | 7 |
Teaching the poor how to play rational recreation and | 17 |
Further reading | 24 |
Social stratification and social division | 95 |
Case studies in the growth of modern sports | 99 |
Social class | 103 |
Gender and sport participation | 110 |
Socialisation and sport an overview of research | 130 |
Approaches to socialisation | 138 |
Representation sport and the media | 161 |
Sport the state and politics | 193 |
Sport and work | 223 |
Commercialisation and the political | 259 |
Perspectives on the economic development of sport | 268 |
Globalisation and postmodernity | 276 |
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Understanding Sport: An Introduction to the Sociological and Cultural ... John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel No preview available - 1999 |
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