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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.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Sugden, John Peter

Tomlinson, Alan

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Power games (ISBN 0415251001; LCCN 2002068309; OCLC Number 50291216)

Subjects:

Sports — Social aspects

Power (Social sciences)

Critical theory

Sports

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 304 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GV706.5 .P628 2002eb

ISBNs:

9781136402050 (electronic bk.)
1136402055 (electronic bk.)
9781315012698
1315012693
9781136402197 (e-book, Mobi)
1136402195
9781136402128 (e-book, ePub)
1136402128
0415251001 [Invalid]
9780415251006 [Invalid]
041525101X [Invalid]
9780415251013 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

861200189