Theory, Sport and Society

by J. Maguire, Kevin Young

Overview

Intended as a resource for students and researchers alike, this volume is a collection of 16 papers that span past, present and future approaches to the sociological study of sport. It includes both a selection of the "founding" theorists whose work remains so pertinent to seeing sport sociologically, as well as from more contemporary and interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributors include a range of experienced and young scholars in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762307425
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/30/2001
Series:	Research in the Sociology of Sport , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

	Dedication	v
	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgements	xv
	Introduction: 'Back to the Future': Thinking Sociologically about Sport	1
Part I	Classical Questions
1.	Karl Marx's Enduring Legacy for the Sociology of Sport	25
2.	Emile Durkheim, Structural Functionalism and the Sociology of Sport	41
3.	Max Weber and the Sociology of Sport	63
4.	George Herbert Mead and an Interpretive Sociology of Sport	83
Part II	Contemporary Concerns
5.	Sport, Gender, Feminism	105
6.	The Anthropology of Sport: Escaping the Past and Building a Future	129
7.	Cultural and Sport Studies: An Interventionist Practice	151
8.	Postmodernism and Sport Studies	179
Part III	Potential Syntheses
9.	Figurational Contributions to the Sociological Study of Sport	211
10.	Pierre Bourdieu's Sociocultural Theory and Sport Practice	239
11.	Studying Sport from a Social Network Approach	267
12.	Michel Foucault: Sport, Power, Technologies and Governmentality	293
Part IV	Future Directions
13.	Feminist and Figurational Sociology: Dialogue and Potential Synthesis	317
14.	The Political Economy of Place: Urban and Sport Studies Perspectives	335
15.	Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: Doing Critical Ethnography	353
16.	Bodies, Subcultures and Sport	375
	About the Editors and the Contributors	397
	Author Index	403
	Subject Index	409