| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Theory and method for a critical sociology of sport / John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson -- Globalisation theory, global sport, and nations and nationalism / John Hargreaves -- Theorising spectacle: beyond Debord / Alan Tomlinson -- Network football / John Sugden -- Leading with the left: boxing, incarnation and Sartre's progressive-regressive method / Leon Culbertson -- Critical social research and political intervention: moralistic versus radical approaches / Ian McDonald -- 'It's not a game': the place of philosophy in a study of sport / Graham McFee -- Sport, power and the state in Weimar Germany / Udo Merkel -- Contest, conflict and resistance in south Africa's sport policies / Marc Keech -- Sport, sectarianism and society in a divided Ireland revisited / Alan Bairner -- The sports star in the media: the gendered construction and youthful consumption of sports personalities / Gill Lines -- Shifting balances of power in the new football economy / Jon Magee -- Babes on the beach, women in the surf: researching gender, power and difference in the windsurfing culture / Belinda Wheaton -- Sport, masculinity and black cultural resistance / Ben Carrington. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society. The book draws upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, history and philosophy to provide a critical analysis of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sports -- Social aspects.
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Sports -- Social aspects. |
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Sports. |
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Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Critical theory.
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Critical theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sugden, John Peter.
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Tomlinson, Alan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Power games 0415251001 (DLC) 2002068309 (OCoLC)50291216 |
| ISBN |
9781136402050 (electronic book) |
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1136402055 (electronic book) |
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0415251001 |
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9780415251006 |
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041525101X |
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9780415251013 |
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