Figurational research in sport, leisure and health
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Figurational research in sport, leisure and health
(Routledge research in sport, culture and society, 106)
Routledge, 2020, c2019
- : pbk
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  Okinawa
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Figurational sociology offers an important set of conceptual and methodological tools for helping us to understand sport, leisure and health and their relationship to wider society.
This book brings together an international team of scholars working within the figurational tradition to explain the significance of figurational sociology in the development of the sociology of sport and to provide empirical case studies of figurational sociology in action. Covering core concepts such as the civilizing process, and key methods such as interviewing and ethnography, the book presents contemporary research in areas as diverse as sport-related health, mixed martial arts, sports policy, gender relations and cycling.
Figurational Research in Sport, Leisure and Health is an important resource for students of sport and social sciences, sociology, figurational sociology and sociology of sport and exercise.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Figurational Research in Sport, Leisure and Health, Part I: Key Concepts, 2. The Development of Modern Sport: Sportization and Civilizing Processes, 3. Game Models as a framework for understanding power in the Male Football Figuration, 4. 'Football Fitness': A quest for excitement or a leisure routinization?, 5. The Theory of Established-Outsider Relations: Understanding Gender Relations in the Cricket Figuration, 6. The Development of Mixed Martial Arts: Using the Quest for Excitement and Informalization to Understand Sportization, Part II: The Research Process, 7. Doing Developmental Research as a Figurational Sociologist: A Case Study on the Long-term Sportization of Swimming, 8. On (Not) Becoming: Involved-Detachment and Sports 'Violence', 9. Doing (Figurational) Research: Using Semi-Structured Interviews in the Field of Public Health, Part III: Synthesis and Development, 10. Figurational Research and Doping in Professional Cycling, 11. A figurational understanding of sport organizations: the case of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, 12. Sport Policy, Sports Development and Figurational Sociology, 13. Figurational Sociological Approaches to Sport, Exercise and Health
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