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Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process

Critique and Counter-Critique

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Eric Dunning

    1. University of Leicester, UK

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  2. Chris Rojek

    1. Routledge, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Field of Play in Sport and Leisure Studies

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 1-35

  3. Drugs, Sport and Ideologies

    • Ivan Waddington, Patrick Murphy
    Pages 36-64

  4. Cleaning up the Game: Perspectives on the Evolution of Professional Sports

    • John Wilson
    Pages 65-95

  5. Towards a Sociological Theory of Sport and the Emotions: A Process-Sociological Perspective

    • Joe Maguire
    Pages 96-120

  6. Sports and Civilization: Is Violence the Central Problem?

    • Ruud Stokvis
    Pages 121-136

  7. Chariot Races, Tournaments and the Civilizing Process

    • Allen Guttmann
    Pages 137-160

  8. Sex, Gender and the Body in Sport and Leisure: Has There Been a Civilizing Process?

    • Jennifer Hargreaves
    Pages 161-182

  9. Sport, Power and Dependency in Southern Africa

    • Grant Jarvie
    Pages 183-200

  10. Figuring a Brighter Future

    • Alan Clarke
    Pages 201-220

  11. Figurational Sociology and the Sociology of Sport: Some Concluding Remarks

    • Eric Dunning
    Pages 221-284

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 285-289
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About this book

How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on sport and leisure, offers a superb introduction to the figurational sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the approach are clearly explained and contributors show how figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete problems. However, the collection also gives space to critics of the figurational approach. Included here are contributions which claim that the approach is inaccurate, blinkered and irrelevant.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leicester, UK

    Eric Dunning

  • Routledge, UK

    Chris Rojek

About the editors

ERIC DUNNING is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester. He has also lectured in the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain. He is the co-author of Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players, Hooligans Abroad, Quest for Excitement, The Roots of Football Hooliganism and Football on Trial.

CHRIS ROJEK is Senior Editor in Sociology at Routledge. He previously taught sociology at the Queen's College, Glasgow, and at the College of St mark and St john in plymouth. He is the author of Capitalism and Leisure Theory, and co-author of Social Work and Received Ideas (with G. Peacock and S. Collins), co-editor of The Haunt of Misery (with G. Peacock and S. Collins) and editor of Leisure for Leisure.

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