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.
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