Sport and leisure in social thought
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Sport and leisure in social thought
Routledge, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 43 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This much needed book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Functionalism, solidarity and social stratification
- Chapter 2 Interpretative sociology: Rationalisation, cultural pessimism and the search for meaning
- Chapter 3 Beyond conventional pluralism
- Chapter 4 Classical Marxism, political economy and beyond
- Chapter 5 Culture as a war of position and a way of life
- Chapter 6 Figurations, power and civilising processes
- Chapter 7 Feminist thought and the boundaries of sisterhood
- Chapter 8 Fields of power, habitus and distinction
- Chapter 9 Beyond modernity and the problems of postmodernism
- Chapter 10 Dependency and globalisation: Sport, leisure and global processes
- Index
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