Sport and Modern Social Theorists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and Modern Social Theorists write by Richard Giulianotti. This book was released on 2004-08-03. Sport and Modern Social Theorists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport. Social theorists under critical examination include Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Adorno, Gramsci, Habermas, Merton, C.Wright Mills, Goffman, Giddens, Elias, Bourdieu and Foucault. This book will appeal to students and scholars of sport studies, cultural studies, modern social theory, and to social scientists generally.
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory
Sociology of Sport and Social Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology of Sport and Social Theory write by Earl Smith. This book was released on 2010. Sociology of Sport and Social Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sociology of Sport and Social Theory presents current research perspectives from major sport scholars and leading sociologists regarding issues germane to the sociology of sport while addressing traditional and contemporary sociological theories.
Sport and Modernity
Sport and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and Modernity write by Richard Gruneau. This book was released on 2017-10-16. Sport and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School to Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as a distinctive field of practice in western societies. Examining subjects including the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity, representations of sport in nineteenth-century England, Nazism, and modern "mega-events" such as the Olympics and the World Cup, he seeks to show how sport developed into an arena which articulated competing understandings of the kinds of people, bodies and practices best suited to the modern western world. This book thereby explores with brio and sophistication how the ever-changing economic, social, and political relations of modernity have been produced and reproduced, and sometimes also opposed and escaped, through sport, from the Enlightenment to the rise of neoliberalism, as well as examining how the study of exercise, athletics, the body, and the spectacle of sport can deepen our understanding of the nature of modernity. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the sociology and history of sport, sociology of culture, cultural history, and cultural studies.
Sport and Modern Social Theorists
Sport and Modern Social Theorists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and Modern Social Theorists write by Richard Giulianotti. This book was released on 2004-08-03. Sport and Modern Social Theorists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport. Social theorists under critical examination include Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Adorno, Gramsci, Habermas, Merton, C.Wright Mills, Goffman, Giddens, Elias, Bourdieu and Foucault. This book will appeal to students and scholars of sport studies, cultural studies, modern social theory, and to social scientists generally.
Sport Sociology
Sport Sociology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport Sociology write by Paul Beedie. This book was released on 2010-05-24. Sport Sociology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A welcome addition for those who teach sports studies... Used as a primer, this book provides readers with excellent introduction to the key sociological concepts, methods, and theories, and, also offers useful examples and contextualised discussions that beginners to the realm of sociology will no doubt appreciate. Beedie has compiled for students a good companion text that could certainly be used in conjunction with more detailed books, and, to guide students through more complex academic texts. Students have certainly appreciated Beedie's efforts to help them apply sociological rigour to analysing their sporting worlds, identities and experiences." - Geoffery Kohe, Worcester University "This should be highly useful for any sports studies students who are encountering the sociology of sport for the first time, even those who have previously studied sociology." - Alison Cain, Hertfordshire University Sociology is central to the study of sport in higher education. This reader-friendly textbook introduces all of the subject’s core themes, such as power, diversity and mediation, and relates them to major contemporary social issues such as commercialisation and globalisation. Special emphasis is given throughout to examples drawn from the UK and to the significance of the 2012 Olympics. Theoretical explanation is fully supported by case studies, practical and reflective exercises and guidance on further study.
