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9780415064132

Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415064132

  • ISBN10:

    0415064139

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-06-22
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers areas such as sport and the emotions, the commercialization and professionalization of sport and sport and gender.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
viii(1)
Preface ix
Introduction: sport as a field of sociological enquiry 1(20)
1 On problems of the emotions in sport and leisure
21(17)
2 Sport in the Western civilizing process
38(27)
3 Sport in space and time: trajectories of state formation and the early development of modern sport
65(15)
4 The development of soccer as a world game
80(26)
5 The dynamics of sports consumption
106(24)
6 Soccer hooliganism as a world social problem
130(29)
7 Sports crowd violence in North America
159(20)
8 Sport in the process of racial stratification: the case of the USA
179(40)
9 Sport, gender and civilization
219(21)
Conclusion 240(9)
Notes 249(8)
Bibliography 257(13)
Index 270

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