Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence, and Civilization1999 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. |
Contents
On problems of the emotions in sport and leisure | 21 |
Sport in the Western civilizing process 338 | 38 |
trajectories of state formation | 65 |
The development of soccer as a world game | 80 |
The dynamics of sports consumption | 106 |
Soccer hooliganism as a world social problem | 130 |
Sports crowd violence in North America | 159 |
Sport gender and civilization | 219 |
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Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation Eric Dunning Limited preview - 2013 |
Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation Eric Dunning Limited preview - 2013 |
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