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Title:

Sport and leisure in the civilizing process : critique and counter-critique / edited by Eric Dunning and Chris Rojek.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

xix, 289 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Leisure--Sociological aspects.
Sports--Sociological aspects.
Loisir--Aspect social.
Sports--Aspect sociologique.

Other Authors:

Dunning, Eric.
Rojek, Chris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : sociological approaches to the study of sport and leisure / Eric Dunning, Chris Rojek -- The field of play in sport and leisure studies / Chris Rojek -- Drugs, sport and ideologies / Ivan Waddington, Patrick Murphy -- Cleaning up the game : perspectives on the evolution of professional sports / John Wilson -- Towards a sociological theory of sport and the emotions : a process-sociological perspective / Joe Maguire -- Sports and civilization : is violence the central problem? / Ruud Stokvis -- Chariot races, tournaments and the civilizing process / Allen Guttmann -- Sex, gender and the body in sport and leisure : has there been a civilizing process? / Jennifer Hargreaves -- Sport, power and dependency in southern Africa / Grant Jarvie -- Figuring a brighter future / Alan Clarke -- Figurational sociology and the sociology of sport : some concluding remarks / Eric Dunning.

ISBN:

9780802076793 (pbk.) :
0802076793 (pbk.) :
9780802028044
0802028047
9780333512258
0333512251

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26588111
(OCoLC)25095631

LCCN:

92195982

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)