Sport and Modern Social Theorists: Theorizing Homo Ludens

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Author(s): Richard Giulianotti
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 264

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Sport and Social Theorists – A Plurality of Perspectives......Page 14
1 The Sportification Process: A Biographical Analysis Framed by the Work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Freud......Page 24
2 Social Structure and Social Theory: The Intellectual Insights of Robert K. Merton......Page 46
3 Reclaiming Goffman: Erving Goffman’s Influence on the Sociology of Sport......Page 62
4 Consciousness, Craft, Commitment: The Sociological Imagination of C. Wright Mills......Page 78
5 Theodor Adorno on Sport: The Jeu D’Esprit of Despair......Page 94
6 Antonio Gramsci: Sport, Hegemony and the National-Popular......Page 110
7 Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket......Page 124
8 Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory, and Sport and Leisure......Page 142
9 Civilizing Games: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Sport......Page 158
10 Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociological Study of Sport: Habitus, Capital and Field......Page 174
11 Habermas on Sports: Social Theory from a Moral Perspective......Page 186
12 Querying Sport Feminism: Personal or Political?......Page 200
13 Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport......Page 220
14 The Fate of Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard and the Sociology of Sport......Page 238
B......Page 254
C......Page 255
E......Page 256
G......Page 257
H......Page 258
L......Page 259
M......Page 260
R......Page 261
S......Page 262
W......Page 264
Z......Page 265