Understanding sport : a socio-cultural analysis
"In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward of...
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New York :
Routledge ,
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Industrial society, social change and sports culture
- 2. Case studies in the growth of modern sports
- 3. Debates, interpretations, theories
- 4. Social stratification and social division in sport
- 5. The social construction of identity and cultural reproduction
- 6. Sport and representation
- 7. Sporting bodies: disciplining and defining normality
- 8. Sport, the state, and the politics
- 9. Governance and sport
- 10. The labour market
- 11. Sport, commercialisation and commodification
- 12. Global transformations
- 13. Sport spaces, sites and events
- 14. Conclusion: methods for understanding sport culture