Sport : Readings from a Sociological Perspective / Eric Dunning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunning, Eric.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Social aspects.

Sports.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics. The sports treated include football, soccer, rugby, wrestling, baseball, and bull-fighting, and some historical background is given on the development of sport. In the introduction to each section, the editor explains the questions that the selections are intended to illustrate, and treats briefly such matters as theories of sport and play, the social factors in their development, sport and socialization, class and race in sport, sport as an occupation and an industry, and conflict and social control in sport. This reader will be of interest to those professionally concerned, either as teacher or student, with sociology and physical education, but it should also appeal to athletes, sports-lovers, and sports commentators who like to keep their thinking in good shape too.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

General Introduction. Sport as a Field of Sociological Enquiry

Part I. Some Concepts and Theories

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Play Element in Contemporary Sport

Chapter 2. The Classification of Games

Chapter 3. Sport as Symbolic Dialogue

Chapter 4. American Sports: Play and Display

Chapter 5. Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football

Part II. The Development of Sports and Games

Chapter 6. The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem

Chapter 7. Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Chapter 8. The Development of Modern Football

Chapter 9. Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion

Part III. (A) Sports and Socialisation

Chapter 10. On Bullfights and Baseball: An Example of Interaction of Social Institutions

Chapter 11. On Scholarship and Interscholastic Athletics

Part III. (B) Class and Race in Sport

Chapter 12. Social Stratification and Mobility Among Young German Sportsmen

Chapter 13. Negroes in Baseball

Part III. (C) Sport As An Occupation

Chapter 14. The Occupational Culture of the Boxer

Chapter 15. Wrestling-The Great American Passion Play

Part III. (D) Conflict and Social Control in Sport

Chapter 16. Notes on Inter-Group Conflicts in International Sport

Chapter 17. "Football Mad": A Speculative Sociology of Football Hooliganism

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5404-X

1-4426-3848-6

OCLC:

988038222