Sport Histories e-bog
436,85 DKK
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Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book brings together ten case studies from a wide range of sports, including mainstream sports such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing and cricket, to other sports that until now have been largely neglected by sports historians, such as shooting, motor racing, tennis, g...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
1 juni 2004
Længde
224 sider
Genrer
HBT
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781134447473
Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book brings together ten case studies from a wide range of sports, including mainstream sports such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing and cricket, to other sports that until now have been largely neglected by sports historians, such as shooting, motor racing, tennis, gymnastics and martial arts. This groundbreaking work highlights key debates in the analysis of modern sport, such as:the relative influence of intra-national class conflict and international conflictthe relative prominence of commercially led processes in different contextsthe centrality of concerns over violencedifferences between elite and mass-led sports developments.Above all, Sport Histories proves the distinctiveness of the figurational sociological approach and its usefulness in the study of the development of modern sport.