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Sport: Readings from a Sociological Perspective

Sport: Readings from a Sociological Perspective

Dunning, Eric

Paperback

Series: Heritage

AnthropologySports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1442631376
ISBN13: 9781442631373
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1972
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics. The sports treated include football, soccer, rugby, wrestling, baseball, and bull-fighting, and some historical background is given on the development of sport. In the introduction to each section, the editor explains the questions that the selections are intended to illustrate, and treats briefly such matters as theories of sport and play, the social factors in their development, sport and socialization, class and race in sport, sport as an occupation and an industry, and conflict and social control in sport.

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