Sports and social class in Great Britain. Football, Rugby, Cricket and society - 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 Sports and social class in Great Britain. Football, Rugby, Cricket and society write by Lukas Szpeth. This book was released on 2015-09-18. Sports and social class in Great Britain. Football, Rugby, Cricket and society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, University of Trier, course: British Culture Studies, language: English, abstract: When talking about Great Britain and the British people there are some noticeable facts that should not be forgotten. Focusing on the favourite British leisure time activities, it becomes obvious that sports and especially team sports play a major role in British culture. The reason for this may be found in Britain's history of sports. Evidence suggests that many of today's popular sports have been developed and regulated there. Following this premise it should facilitate to imagine that the first players of these sports were probably British. Likewise are today's rules or at least their basic structure. In the following this Essay will deal with Britain’s three major team sports and their popularity. But which ones are the most popular? The answer seems obvious but knowing it inevitably raises further questions: Why are these sports so popular and to whom?
`Race', Sport and British Society
`Race', Sport and British Society - 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 `Race', Sport and British Society write by Ben Carrington. This book was released on 2002-01-04. `Race', Sport and British Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contrary to the popular belief that sport is an arena largely free from the corrosive effects of racism, this book argues that racism is evident throughout British sport. From playing fields and boardrooms of sports organisations, to the offices of sports policy makers and the media, this book breaks new ground in showing how discourses of 'race' and nation continue to pervade our sporting life. Looking at a range of sports, including football, rugby league and cricket, this book covers key topics such as: * British nationalism and nationalist ideology * racial science and the images of Asian and black physicality * sport, racism and the law * black feminism and the issues of race, gender and sport * the role of the media in perpetuating and challenging racial stereotypes. Challenging the prevailing liberal view that sport is one area of society where 'good race-relations' are developed, this book offers a wealth of research material, and a strong theoretical perspective on contemporary British sport. It will therefore be of vital interest to sociologists, sports studies students, sport policy-makers and anyone with an interest in contemporary British sport.
A Sport-loving Society
A Sport-loving Society - 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 A Sport-loving Society write by J. A. Mangan. This book was released on 2006. A Sport-loving Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players - 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 Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players write by Kenneth Sheard. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place since 1979, with particular attention to the professionalism that was predicted in the first edition of this text. Sports lovers, rugby fans and students of the history and sociology of sport will find it invaluable. Rugby football is descended from winter 'folk games' which were a deeply rooted tradition in pre-industrial Britain. This was the first book to study the development of Rugby from this folk tradition to the game in its modern forms. The folk forms of football were extremely violent and serious injuries - even death - were a common feature. The game was refined in the public schools who played a crucial role in formulating the rules which required footballers to exercise greater self-control. With the spread of rugby into the wider society, the Rugby Football Union was founded but class tensions led to the split between Rugby Union and Rugby League. The authors examine the changes that led to the professionalisation of Rugby Union as well as the alleged resurgence of violence in the modern game.
Upper- and middle class sport in Victorian Britain and the concept of amateurism
Upper- and middle class sport in Victorian Britain and the concept of amateurism - 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 Upper- and middle class sport in Victorian Britain and the concept of amateurism write by Mathias Wick. This book was released on 2008-02-18. Upper- and middle class sport in Victorian Britain and the concept of amateurism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik / Amerikanistik), course: Sport in the Making of Britain, language: English, abstract: The significance of sport as a means to explain dynamic processes in society has increasingly been acknowledged by scholars in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Vice versa it would be difficult, if not impossible, to understand the development of sport if contemplating it isolated and not on the broader background of society in general. This text concentrates rather on sport as a product of other areas such as the working world or politics, but also attempts to outline its initiating role for some changes in British culture. The time to be examined will be the Victorian era, which lasted from 1837 until 1901 and in which Britain underwent remarkable processes of modernization in all areas. It was also the period when sport became subject to remarkable transformations, largely acquiring the features of its modern twentieth century appearance. However, the attempt to describe contexts as multi- facetted as possible will make it necessary to also take a look into the time after and especially before those sixty-four Victorian years. Accordingly, the first chapter deals with sport in Early Modern Britain, emphasising especially the eighteenth century. It is concerned to present an overview, from which more or less universal features of the sports exercised in that time can be derived and which in the later course of the text shall be contrasted with the characteristics of Victorian sport. Those characteristics and its origins will be worked out in the second chapter, when sport is predominantly described as a product of technological modernization and shifting social attitudes. Here also the role of the rising middle classes as the new “Trägerschicht” (Eisenberg, 1999, p. 47) of sport will receive attention. The third chapter more technically deals with the most common and most popular sports exercised in Victorian Britain, whereat a distinction between upper- and middle class disciplines will be employed in order to present a more differentiated picture. The fourth and last chapter finally recapitulates the way of the middle classes, who managed to become the dominating influence in sport, while contrasting them to the higher and lower orders. With regard to the lower, focus lies on the amateur rule, which emerged in all sports, and which in Guttman’s (1979) words “war eine Waffe in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen sozialen Schichten” (p. 40).
