Sport matters : sociological studies of sport, violence, and civilization /
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers areas such as sport and the emotions, the commercialisation and professionalisation of sport and sport and gender.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 020315956X 9780203159569 0203025296 9780203025291 9781134870141 1134870140 9781134870097 1134870094 9781134870134 1134870132 1872365949 9781872365947 1280332018 9781280332012 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- On problems of the emotions in sport and leisure
- Sport in the Western civilizing process
- Sport in space and time : trajectories of state formation and the early development of modern sport
- The development of soccer as a world game
- The dynamics of sports consumption
- Soccer hooliganism as a world social problem
- Sports crowd violence in North America
- Sport in the process of racial stratification : the case of the USA
- Sport, gender and civilization.